Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

So yeah, I want to take y'all about a profound moment in history and a part of the story that most people don't know about.

This is a story about the greatest maritime rescue in human history.

And it didn't happen during a war, and it didn't involve a Navy,

and it didn't even make headlines the next day.

And it happened right here on American soil in broad daylight.

Not in the 1940s, but in our lifetime.

In fact, on one of our darkest days.

We've all heard of Dunkirk,

the Miraculous Rescue during World War II,

where private boats helped evacuate

338,000 troops over nine days,

but fewer people know about what happened

on September 11th, 2001, right after the

towers fell. That day, after the tragic events, the streets of Manhattan were just choked

with ash and fear and panic, bridges and tunnels were shut down, subways were closed, roads were blocked, and people were trapped on the southern tip of the island with no way out.

And you have to remember back then, they were scared, fearful that something else might still be coming, and they were feeling trapped and desperate.

Then something extraordinary happened. Without orders, without a command chain, without anybody telling them what to do, ordinary people just showed up.

Hundreds of boat owners, from Stanton Island ferry captains to private fishermen, from billionaire yacht owners to tugboat workers.

They all heard a call for help over the radio. All available

boats come now. And they came. They came in droves. Hundreds of vessels of all shapes and sizes.

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