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Remembering September 11: BOATLIFT, An Amazing Tale of 9/11 Resilience September 11, 2019 by gCaptain As the World Trade Center buildings burned and collapsed on September 11, 2001, a half million people were evacuated from Lower Manhattan by a civilian flotilla of ferries, tug boats and other vessels in what became the largest boatlift in history. BOATLIFT – An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience, is a touching tribute to that effort. In this short film, Tom Hanks narrates the epic story of the 9/11 boatlift when the local maritime community sprung into action to help their fellow New Yorkers and...

Outstanding video clip received in an email today ... We certainly were busy watching the news right after 9/11, but we never saw this......BOAT-LIFT OF 9/11..... In the 14 years since this happened, this is the first time I've ever seen this...I don't even remember seeing/hearing about this evacuation on the news! The fact is, it was all done in 9 hours ... 500,000 people! This is a video well worth watching. The guy at the end (same guy who is at the beginning) has some great words to live by for all of us.

In all, 125,000 Cubans fled to U.S. shores in about 1,700 boats, creating large waves of people that overwhelmed the U.S. Coast guard. Cuban guards had packed boat after boat, without considering safety, making some of the overcrowded boats barely seaworthy. Twenty-seven migrants died, including 14 on an overloaded boat that capsized on May 17. The boatlift also began to have negative political implications for U.S. President Jimmy Carter. When it was discovered that a number of the exiles had been released from Cuban jails and mental health facilities, many were placed in refugee camps while others were held in...

I've never seen this before, it's a tear jerker.

In 1971, the year I played a Vietnamese, I was a 7-year-old Communist pioneer who had already been made to swear to grow up to be like Che Guevara. Fidel Castro constantly reminded us that we were the hope of the world and that the revolution had been fought so that children like us could receive free education and free health care. For me, born in 1964, five years after Castro seized power, there was no other reality. I didn't know that children who lived elsewhere did not read Ho Chi Minh's biography in second grade. I hadn't thought about...