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Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life; and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God. Jn 6:68-69

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

President George W. Bush standing at Ground Zero in New York City following the September 11 Attacks. “I can hear you.”

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🇺🇸 The Boatlift That Was Bigger Than Dunkirk

At 10:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, a Coast Guard lieutenant named Mike Day keyed a radio in New York Harbor and said the only sentence that mattered.

“All available boats. This is the United States Coast Guard. Anyone wanting to help with the evacuation of Lower Manhattan, report to Governors Island.”

The boats were already coming.

The bridges were closed. The tunnels were closed. The subways were dead. South of the towers, hundreds of thousands of people had nowhere left to walk. Some jumped into the Hudson. Some stood on seawalls that were never meant to be docks and waited for anything that floated.

Dunkirk took nine days to pull 338,226 Allied soldiers off a beach in 1940.

On 9/11, roughly 800 mariners on about 150 vessels moved as many as 500,000 civilians off Manhattan in about nine hours. Ferries. Tugs. Dinner boats. Pilot boats. Yachts. A retired fireboat. Rubber dinghies that held two people. The largest water evacuation in history.

NY Waterway did not wait for the official call. After the second plane hit, the whole fleet moved. Captain Rick Thornton nosed his ferry against a seawall that was not a slip and started taking people off. Some of them he pulled out of the river. His company alone carried about 158,000 people to Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken, Brooklyn, and Queens.

On a normal Tuesday they carried 34,000.

The Staten Island Ferry moved more than 50,000 people and came back the other way with water, bandages, and men who still had work to do in the dust.

The old fireboat John J. Harvey, already retired, tied up near the Museum of Jewish Heritage, took civilians off the seawall, then pumped water when the hydrants downtown died.

Lt. Day later admitted what the day required. “I broke more rules that day than probably I’ve enforced in my whole Coast Guard career.”

In raw numbers it was bigger than Dunkirk. No boat went down. By nightfall the southern tip of Manhattan had been emptied by people who were not on anyone’s list of heroes when the morning started.

They were tug captains. Ferry deckhands. Pilots. A lieutenant with a microphone. Ordinary boats answering one sentence.

All available boats.

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[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Don’t believe what they tell you about these assisted suicide bills.

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@DOM_Frederic Give him his statute and retire his number in 2026!

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@BeardedBlevins Isn't Henry Ruggs in prison?

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@Buster_ESPN @Kurkjian_ESPN @JeffPassan @grok what grade did Buster give the Cubs?

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NEW: Rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan, who saved 165 people during the Texas floods, says he recently became a rescue swimmer and this was his first rescue mission.

“I got on scene, boots on the ground at Camp Mystic and discovered I was the only first responder there.”

“I had about 200 kids, mostly all scared, terrified cold, having probably the worst day of their life.”

“I just kind of need to triage them, get them to a higher level care and get them off the flood zone with a lot of the Army helicopters.”

Hero.

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@BeardedBlevins

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@BeardedBlevins It means you're emo. Shocker.

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@CNviolations

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@davidharsanyi "we have the medicine to keep sick people alive longer than ever" is not the strong argument you think it is.

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@davebfr STAR

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@caroljsroth Next please deport anyone who "dries" their dishes by leaving them soaking wet on the counter.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Looking at the world through a microscope 🧵

1. Terrifying photo of an ant's face

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@davebfr F that. ROY!

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@JesseRogersESPN Retire his number after the game you cowards!!!

[Chicago Bulls @chicagobulls]

The kid from Englewood turned into a Chicago legend.

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