NJ DEVILS & NY RANGERS STAND UNITED ON THE MSG RED LINE DIRECTLY AFTER 9/11/2001 #NJDevils #NYR
We are getting ready for the Rangers and the Devils, but first there are special pregame ceremonies and we take you to public address announcer Bob Gallerstein among us carrying the country on their shoulders and making us proud of America. If tomorrow all the things were gone, I’d work for all my life and I had to start again with just my children and my wife. Thank my lucky stars to be living here today cuz the flag still stands for freedom and they can’t take that away. And I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me. And I glad to stand up next to you and defend her still today. Cuz there ain’t no doubt I love this land. God bless the USA. [Music] [Applause] Ladies and gentlemen, please rise and join Rangers and Devils players as they unite on the red line for a moment of silence as we grieve for those who haven’t lost, including members of our National Hockey League and Rangers family. Thank you. We ask that you remain standing as the color guard is presented by the Wand High School Army Junior ROC. Please join John Amarante in the singing of God Bless America at the national anthem. God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above. From the mountains, through the prairies to the oceans, white with farm, God bless America, my home sweet home. God bless America, my home. Sweet. Oh, [Applause] heat. [Music] Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light, what so proudly we held at the twilight last gleaming, whose broad stripes and Bright stars through the perilous fight. All the ramparts we watched were so gallently streaming and the rockets red glare. The monsters singing air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh s spangled aband yet wave or the land of the free [Music] and the home of the brave. The display of emotion of loyalty is unmatched. John, this has been a tough week for everybody. But I I have to say, John, the admiration I have for those people who have given their lives to rescue others, who have worked 24 hours, 36 hours straight. I I can’t say enough about all of them. I just wish them Godspeed in their efforts. And for those families uh who lost loved ones in the tragedy, we give you our deepest condolences and our prayers and best wishes are with you always. It’s a very very very difficult time, Sam, to say the least. But it’s interesting to even walk the streets of New York and you just see people and everybody wishing each other well. one when you see a fireman or a policeman and I I saw two police officers today that stopped me on the street. They had been to a a funeral where they had played the bag pipes and they were just wonderful guys last night in Toronto before the ball game up there. They had the bag pipes on the on the field and it’s it’s amazing the way that everybody has come together and we’re going to stay together and pull for each other. [Applause]
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