A commuter ferry that runs between New Jersey and Manhattan is named after a man who never captained a ship in his life.
Tim and Andrea take on an object related to September 11, 2001, not a piece of wreckage, but the Father Mychal Judge, a NY Waterway ferry named for the FDNY chaplain who became Victim 0001, the first certified death of the attacks. They trace Judge's own story first: a Brooklyn kid who shined shoes at Penn Station, was ordained as a Franciscan priest, got sober through AA in the 1970s, spent his life ministering to the people the church and the country were least comfortable with, and ran straight into the North Tower to pray with the dying. Then they discuss a piece of history most people have never heard of, the largest maritime evacuation in American history, a Dunkirk-scale rescue of Lower Manhattan on 9/11 by hundreds of ordinary boat captains with no orders and no plan, a story that surprised even Tim (Andrea already knew it). The same boat later turned up pulling passengers out of the Hudson during Capt. Sully's landing. From there they widen out to the country's immediate reaction, the grounded skies, the filled blood banks, the sold-out flags, and close on the 9/11 Commission's own hard verdict on itself: the attacks "should not have come as a surprise."
A ferry that runs the same river every day, named for a man who ran the other direction on the worst morning in the city's history.
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