Sunday, February 8, 2009

Yes - There are some good people out there

I ended up seeing CBS "60 Minutes" this evening. Tonight's episode featured an interview with the team that worked Flight 1549. Most of the feature focused on the Captain Chesley "Scully" Sullenberger. It was very refreshing to finally see someone do something so awesome yet be so humble at the same time. He is doing his share of interviews while at the same time there has been no egotistical chest pumping. I think he is treating the series of interviews as a duty and not one for building any of his ego. He realizes as a whole that he saved not only the people on the flight but kept many children from growing up with one less parent.

One significant moment was when there was a reunion between one passenger and Sullenberger. The passenger had lost his brother in 9/11. He thanked Sullenberger for keeping his family from enduring another loss due to a plane crash. IT was a loss the passenger did not think his family could go through again.

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