Swedish Couple Reacts to BOATLIFT - An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience

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[rmlrl]

America is like a dysfunctional family. We fight amongst ourselves, but when an outside force comes at us, we rally together.

[robertofernandez]

Americans get a lot of shit from the people's from other countries. But they are truly another breed of humans, it's amazing how they rally together to assist each other in times of struggle and peril. I'm an immigrant to this country and cannot say enough how proud I am to be part of it. God bless America!!! Truly one of the few bright lights left in this horrible world we live in.

[Budini]

One thing that got left out, the fuel depots in the harbor were taking the boat name, the captain's name and refueling without payment to keep helping with the evacuation. They settled up later with no one left owing a cent.

[pfiedgy]

You need to check out when a small town in Canada helped thousands of airplane passengers that were stranded

[patriciawilliams]

Americans are like siblings. We may fight each other but if someone attacks us or a natural disaster happens, we will stand together.

[sscimsx]

U.S. Army Combat Veteran here. 9/11 changed my life. I was 18 years old, newly married, and had just started college. On Tuesday, 9/12/01, I went to the military recruitment office. The line reached around the block. I was 18 years old, it was my time to serve just like my father did in Vietnam and his father before him in WW2. Actually, someone in my family has fought in every American war since the Civil War. I've seen the best of humanity, and I've seen the worst of humanity. On 9/11, we saw both at the same time. I'm retired from the Army, got my degree (thank you US tax payers), and now I am a volunteer Firefighter/EMT in my hometown in Kentucky. Still saving lives. It is my honor to serve the American people. I pray that my 10 year old son doesn't go to war like the last 6 generations have done. I pray that our family has given enough to secure freedom so that at least one generation can live in peace.

[larrym.johnson]

Recky and Carol this is not Government this is America! You don't see us much but this is Who we are! 🤟🔥⛪👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🇺🇸🙏🐊🌹

[smd]

we Americans are a vary divisive people but when the shit hits the fan we forget all the BS and do what needs to be done

[dbchatt]

The man at the first and last of this film was Vincent Ardolino. He died about five years later at age 65. I think over 1, 000 people showed up for his funeral. He was a well liked man. I've always thought everyone around the harbor with boats were seeing what was happening and primed to go help. I bet most of the boat people had their boats ready when that call came in. I'm sure many were relieved to be given permission to help. It's funny but I remember the day well and was glued to the tv like everyone else. The networks were struggling to fill 24/7 with so little info. I accidently caught a news piece that had a young man who happened upon the harbor and saw this happening and got on one of the boats and filmed it. I guess he sold it to a network. The harbor has towns or suburb communities with docks and people commute to NYC by ferry. He got off at one of these locations and the dock was filled with doctors, nurses, ambulances, paramedics, local police, taxis and families hoping to find and pick up their spouse or parent. They had tons of blankets, water, food for everyone getting off. Apparently all the towns around the harbor had the same set up. I think everyone desperately wanted to help in some way. I only saw that story run once and forgot about it completely until Boatlift was shown on You Tube 20 years later.

[vivienneclarke]

The call for help went out.
And the People answered~!!🇺🇲

[JohnLeePettimoreIII]

i did the maths on this and it resulted in about 1, 000 people rescued per minute.

[shannonotoole]

The CG commander on Boat 1. Said he broke more regulations in 9 hours than he had enforced his whole career

[nmfnPine]

My son was in the south tower on the 64th floor. He saw the smoke swirling around and told his fellow employees to run to the steps. He and his friend made it out a few minutes before the south tower fell. He got home on his birthday.

[coffenut]

I have a funny little story to go along with this. About 2 years after 9/11, I was in New York for a class and I went out to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The ferry was fairly empty and the captain stopped by and said hi. We started talking and I asked him about 9/11 as I had been a paramedic at the Pentagon on Sept 11th. He said that when it happened, he heard the call for “all boats” and responded despite having tourists on board. He made an announcement and everyone on board was ok with responding. He said that he had never pushed his boat that hard before but had to come to a sudden slowdown as right in front of him was a man in a rowboat rowing his heart out. He had heard the call for all boats and figured he could carry a couple of people so responded with his rowboat. 🙂

I’ve spent most of my life traveling around the world and the one thing that I have learned is that people are good. So if something happened in Sweden, I’ll bet dollars to donuts that you would step up. One of things I was always grateful for was that I had a "job" to do on Sept 11th. So many people wanted to help and didn't know how. For a couple weeks after the event, I was sent down there to work. One day, I got a phone call in the middle of the afternoon from my Squad asking me what they were supposed to do with all the stuff. "What stuff?" I asked. "The food that everyone has been dropping off at the Squad for you to take down to the Pentagon tonight." Apparently, my partner had mentioned that we were going down to the Pentagon to the Sunday School class she was teaching and asked the kids if they wanted to write something to the firefighters. Well, the kids told their parents what they had done. The parents started cooking and told all their friends. By the time I got to the Squad to pick up our equipment, the entire place was piled high with homemade food, desserts, etc. There was finally something people could do to help. We spent the entire evening handing out food to the firefighters for which they were very grateful as they were tired of the mass made food from the Red Cross. :-)

[carolstringfellow]

I will say this every time I see this but as a sailor’s daughter and a Brit I have never been more proud to be outdone by our American 🇺🇸 cousins. God bless America 🇺🇸

[williamshepherd]

Nothing's changed. As an Americans we never agree. It's what makes us Americans. BUT. When tragedy hits. We unite like no other. It's almost like it's in. Our DNA. We unite under that flag. William s

[nyteshayde]

We fight amongst ourselves like cats and dogs, but when the rubber meets road - we'll stand together no matter what.

[kateg]

I've seen Boatlift before and every time I watch it, I cry. I don't want to...it just happens. The worst day in our history and then the best day of Americans being unified and proud and still standing. No matter what terrorists unleash on us. It makes me sad that we seem to have lost that feeling that we're all in this together and we will stand no matter what.

[GermanShepherdsRule]

I truly believe that if it comes down to it, Sweden citizens would rise to the occasion to help their fellow man. I like to believe that the inner hero shows itself in the darkest of hours! ❤

[mindyrolston]

These are our heroes that no one really knew about and I love that they have a video dedicated to them❤🇺🇸❤️