BoatLift: An Untold tale of September 11 Resilience

[Larryh86GT]

While the towers burned and collapsed on 9/11, a half million people were evacuated from Lower Manhattan by a civilian flotilla of ferries, tug boats and other vessels—the largest boatlift in history.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MDOrzF7B2Kg

 

[Kleftiwallah]

I respectfully suggest.

The Dunkirk evacuation during the dark days of W W 2 was a tad larger. But I do not have the relative statistics to hand. Cheers, Tony.

 

[Rocky]

I beg to differ, Tony. The Dunkirk evacuation removed fewer than 340,000 English, French and Belgian troops from France over a period of 9 days. The evacuation of Lower Manhattan was in one day and removed almost 500,000 people. I acknowledge that the distance traveled was quite a bit longer in the case of Dunkirk, but the rallying of so many boats in such a short time in Manhanttan was nothing less than phenomenal and was done strictly on a volunteer basis.

To coin a phase, "Never has so much been owed by so many to so few!" Oh, wait, I think someone has already said that.

 

[Kleftiwallah]

I believe you.

I will have to say you are correct as you have put forward numbers as proof which I do not have access to. Cheers, Tony.