If you don't watch another minute of the 10th anniversary coverage, you gotta watch this. It's a beautifully done 12-minute documentary about the volunteer evacuation of lower Manhattan by boat--ferries, tugboats, pleasure craft, fishing boats, Coast Guard cutters,just about anything that floated. More than 500,000 people in nine hours, 13 times as many as at Dunkirk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18lsxFcDrjo This has a bit of the background: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eddie-rosenstein/tom-hanks-narrates-boatlift_b_956529.html http://tinyurl.com/3paunzu It's a feel-good story in the best sense of the term.
