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A portion of his interview is shared here:
"...the story is really a metaphor for something much larger than boat racing.
On one level it is indeed about an unlikely hero --Joe Rantz --overcoming great
odds. But even more than that, it's about how nine goodhearted young men
climbed into a boat and learned to pull together powerfully and beautifully.
They opened their hearts up to one another, built powerful bonds of trust and
affection, worked incredibly hard, and believed in themselves. And I think that
central theme --climbing into a boat and learning to pull together -- is a great
metaphor for what that whole generation of Americans did during the Great
Depression. They learned to pull together and get great things done --things like
building the Grand Coulee Dam, winning World War II, and building the most
prosperous era in our nation's history after the war. Pulling together --I think
it's what so many Americans hanker for today, and this story simply
illustrates how it can be done.."
How has America changed? Do we still pull together? What can we learn about
who we were in 1936 and who we are today in 2017?
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