Discover this rarely told story of heroism and rescue of nearly 500,000 people on Manhattan Island, which would later be called the largest sea evacuation in history, on September 11, 2001.

The youngest in a family of nine children, Julie Gassman grew up in Howard, South Dakota. After college, she traded in small-town life for the world of magazine publishing in New York City. She now lives in southern Minnesota with her husband and their three children.