00:00It started as I was standing on the tip of a wing, watching this captain walk up and down
00:07the aisles of an airplane, make sure everybody had gotten off. I can say this about Sully.
00:13In all of this, he's always had time for the passengers. And I think he realized that we'd
00:20all gone through a life-changing event together, and that we shared that special moment, and that
00:28was something that he was not going to let the rest of his things going on in his life interfere
00:32with.
00:33I mean, it was the scariest thing that ever happened to me. And I tell everybody that, you
00:39know, you get to a point where it's a feeling beyond fear. You come to a decision that you're
00:46going to die. And I do believe that most people on the plane felt like that we were not going
00:51to get
00:51out of that alive that day. This man has had a significant impact on my life over the last
00:57not only my life, but a lot of people's lives over the past couple of decades. And now he's
01:04having to face this challenge. My dad also had Alzheimer's. And so I kind of understand some of
01:10the things that he's going through. They wanted to get it out there so that it could also help
01:17people that are in the same situation. He would just be another voice that would tell people in that
01:26situation. You don't have to live in silence with it. You can certainly talk about it.
01:29I was talking with one of the other passengers one day, and I just said, you know, this is really
01:35a
01:36defining moment in our life, but this can't be the defining moment in our life. And I said,
01:42that's reserved for Sully. And, you know, we talked a little bit about it. And then maybe a month or
01:49so
01:49later, I saw Sully, and I was repeating that story to him. And he pushed back, and he said,
01:55no, no, no, Clay. This is not the defining moment in my life. I have a lot more that I
02:01want to
02:01accomplish. And I think this gives him the opportunity to accomplish even more than what
02:07he had anticipated. This is his way of giving back and moving forward.
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