Bette Midler became a hero that day. That's why till this day, people love her. She went to this game, even after threats were made to sing. And while singing, she said God bless you. That cemented her place in America as a true hero.

No one ever sang this song like legendary Bette Midler.

No words to express the emotion she never fails to evoke no matter how many times I listen. Bless Bette!

I tuned into the television just in time to catch Bette Midler sing this live. In my city, Austin, TX, the whole town was crying on 9/11. Whether I was putting in gas at the station or grocery shopping, everyone was red-eyed w/ flushed faces. When I heard her sing I felt she was giving me a strong, warm & I felt my soul start to mend. I will love her forever, she connected w/ all of us. It was a big love fest as tears poured out. Thank you, Bette Midler, Thank God for YOU.

I watched this live. I cried then. I still cry every time I listen to it. Her song, her emotions and her love for this country showed why this song can still bring tears. It started us in being able to mend our broken hearts and to have pride again in our country. We’d forgotten for a minute what we can do when we pull together. Her song helped us see there was still love in the world if we just stop and pay attention. You never know these days we may need her again to remind us again. We are the wind beneath our wings. Thanks Bette.

I remember this like it was yesterday, watching it Live. And it still hurts.

Tears started to come out of my eyes as she started to sing.

As soon as this woman opens her mouth just to say "oooohhhhh"... I get chills and goosebumps ALL OVER! She's unique, really lives to her title of Divine.

The way she sings the words “Thank you” 😭 so intense and sincere and emotional!

i have to give it to Bette Midler i dont know how she can perform this song and keep her own emotions in check while everybody else is openly crying and breaking down in tears. This is one of her best songs and very fitting for this 9/11 memorial.

Oh wow!!! I always cry when I watch this video. Thank you Bette Midler for singing this and helping so many to cope with the lost of their love ones. God bless you Sweetie.

I have seen her perform this song several times but never with this much passion. I love her.

Bette is the best live performer I have ever seen- singer, dancer, actress and comic - love Bette

Golly. The stadium echo is haunting yet beautiful. Amazing! RIP to all the ones lost.

Bette Midler is The best.

Watching it right now crying my eyes out 😢

I saw this permorfance live on TV and it made me cry so hard and it still makes me cry every time i see it.

Still brings a tear after 10 years.

No words can adequately comfort unexpected dread. Grief shock anguish. The God created Bette Midler to make us laugh. Cry. To ease the pain. Live life to the fullest as short as it is. What a courageous performance at a horrific moment in mankind's history!

She was crying when she left. She contained herself until the last note. Other performers were supposed to be there, but they backed out because they were too scared of another terrorist attack. Bette came here when others would not. She was brave.Barbara S. was asked, as were others. They declined, out of fear.

My best friend gave me a key chain with this on it. She’s in Heaven now and I miss. Her so much.❤

OMG, I cried like a baby when I saw her singing this great song on TV that day!!!!! So did my parents. If you saw this clip the day she sang it and didn't cry, there's something WRONG WITH YOU OR YOU ARE AMERICA's ENEMY!!!!!!!!!! And here it is, almost 10 years later; I'm watching this clip and still crying!!!!!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA< AND GOD BLESS US< EVERY ONE!!!!!!!!

they couldn't have picked a better performer or song for this..... was so touching and one of the most personal performances of our time....

Beautiful song with beautiful voice. I love you better miller!!! ❤❤❤

Quite possibly the most important performance of her career. God bless you, Bette.

Thank you very much .I love her songs very much. ありがとうございました。素晴らしい歌でした♪

Stunning emotion and talent....to be able to sing live like that is incredible. Love you Bette!

❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you Father God in Heaven ❤Praise

OMG ALL THESE YEARS LATER BETTE MIDLER SONG STILL MAKES ME CRY! I LOVE YOU ALWAYS !!!

I so agree. It was the most emotional performance I have ever seen by any performer. For her to be able to get through it without breaking down was truly inspiring.

A true legend, a true lady...........

Still brings tears to my eyes... what a performance just when those families and NYC needed it...

so emotional, thanks you lovely eternal Bette Midler

I'm not ashamed to admit i broke down into tears every time i heard this rendition... how could anyone dislike this video? shame on you....

this makes me cry every time I hear & watch this the reason Why all these people were very upset sad & depressed & crying heavy because they lost LOVE ones 11JUL16 TO ALL PERSON'S FROM DALLAS TO PHILLE, KENN

How the hell she held it together... amazing!

What a beautiful woman is she!!

Thank you mama...

You know, Bette is a real tough cookie and a little ball of fire..it takes a lot to make her cry. God Bless you, Bette!!!!!!!

i still cry everytime i hear this. what a wonderful song

Such a beautiful voice

Made me cry many times

Bette Midler's finest moment in her career. The power of the raw emotion she conveyed with just her voice and a piano. Stunningly powerful and so fitting for that day. She made it memorable, a song I never took that seriously, but Bette is a genius in front of a crowd and she knows, instinctively, what to do. I remember how we all felt hat day. I love Bette Midler even more today.

I love Bette Midler. She has no idea how much she inspires with her sense of compassion and connection to everyone around her. She truly brings out the best in people and does her best to pump us up with a sense of real joy.

We felt the pain here in Canada!

amazing performance

It breaks my heart to see all these people cry and despite of all, they are together anyhow. This performance is incredible...live and directly from her big heart. It can not be explained how people might have felt who were live in the stadium?! We Europeans always love and support your fabulous nation. MAY God bless you. Love and dedication from Germany!!!!

I love you Bette

This song chokes me up.

I am in tears watching this - so emotional and beautiful x My heart goes out to the loved ones of the victims - they were devastated.

Man I never cry. What is this sorcery. She has put a spell on me.

Brilliant ..Bless All the Souls Who Lost Their Lives That Day ..Mick .UK

My thoughts and prayers STILL go out to all the loved ones and everyone lost during 9/11. My mother was on a flight and luckily her plane landed safely. God Bless the USA and the rest of the world for that matter.

As if telling a sad story to so many survivors of 9/11. Very memorable and well done.

makes me tear up every single time

Ok man I’m crying I remember this day how shocked and sad we all were. I was watching beaches and I had to look it up it was great to see bette and Oprah standing up for us. To all the people we lost Rip.

i send this song to my beloved Mum, who left this world to soon, RIP MUM, Feb. 3, 1951-Jan. 4, 2009, LOVE you Mum, and miss you so much,but you are always with me in my heart.

I really love this song...;) & bette midler made me cry....love it.

Truly the song is very glorious

God definitely used Bette with this song, the lyrics hit hard! I know some people see it and others do to at least subconsciously. Glory to God.

I cried so much when I saw it on TV. It was just overwhelming 😢😢😢

one of our countries bittersweet moments. in a time of national tragedy, this inspirational song brought together a grieving nation while paying due respect to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

I cried Thank you thank you thank you I Love you Bette middler

Who will ever forget what you were doing that day? It was crushing to the hearts of all Americans. The loss of the people, no matter what nationality , race, or religon was devasting. The thanks to the firemen and police men who lost their own life that day saving others and the thanks to the others who did their job and lived was spoken through Bette. Thank you

Songs such as this still keeps me alive. Bette Midler, you are my true hero and you are the wind beneath my wings in truest sense.

Bette Middler-The Wind Benth My Wings, i miss my children

Still listening in the UK July 2019

I have not seen this in a few years, and not ashamed to say tears are pouring down my face at the moment.

Still so touching all these years later!😢❤

Wow! That was so touching! Thank you Forever Bette Midler

Thank you Bette Miller god Bless you

How the heck can someone thumbs down this video? The emotions were unheard of during this tragic time. Thousands of people lost their lives and thousands of families were disrupted. But meanwhile someone has the audacity to thumbs down this video. Show some compassion. I will never forget 9/11. As a fellow New Yorker, I moved out of state a year before this event . However, once a New Yorker, always a New Yorker. God Bless NY and the rest of America.

Where is our patriotism now? I love Bette Midler...she brings out nothing but raw emotion in everyone..including our elected officials that are seated by her. We are all human beings regardless of our background.

What a. Beautiful angelic voice one of the best ❤👌 xxxx

Beautiful ❤

This was my mother funerals song. It makes me cry to this day and I am 40 yrs old and this was in 1992, when I was just 12 years old.

Veryvery good

my english is not so good, but i think, for me the best memorial for 09/11. American People please proude uf you, your Familie and your great singers. Lovley greetings to all of you.

poppy I miss you RIP 19 years

her voice and song really touched me bad... crying so badly... gosh i need more tissues !!!

Bette-talented singer and actress-and an awesome PATRIOT, This meant so much to so many people. God Bless her.

I fell in love with Bette Midler this day..

this performance is outstanding - thank you Bette Midler greez from Germany

This song means a lot for me. There is a friend who I love who I shared the movie backed up for this song with. So, lots of memories. I admire very much the privileged voice you Bette Medler. Thanks for make others life more pleasent trough your songs.

Haven't heard this for a long long time, and stumbled across this video, within minutes I was blubbing, all those people in the audience who'd lost loved ones, it brought back horrible memories of that terrible day, so long ago now but never forgotten! I was on holiday at the time it happened in Lanzarote and my son phoned me and told me to put the tv on, I couldn't beleive what I was witnessing, a truly awful time for New York and all of the USA, rip all those who preished.

A beautiful tribute to special loved ones we've ALL lost.....

Bette Midler has never looked more beautiful than she did that day! A breath of fresh air personified. And, of course her singing is truly divine.

Foi uma apresentação muito emocionante!!

I tried to be strong and I not cry when terror hit NYC and I was in midtown on 9-11. I held it together up until I saw this performance live. This is this first time I have watched it since the original broadcast and it still brings me to tears.

I saw her sang this song many many times, but by far this one is the most touching, emotional and painful... my heart is breaking and im just holding back my tears..... love you, Ms. Devine & New York.💗💖😥😪

its been 10 yrs and watching this again since then still strong and it still makes me cry. it still hurts. it took me 10 years to go down to wtc and when i got there i cried. i just kept saying its not here.

she is truly a legend , thats all i can say

God bless all of the people who suffered during 9/11.

my dear bette every time i listen this wonderful song and your great voice i cry so much, because god have bless you!!!! tks so much bette long life for you.please dont stop to sing!!!

The most amazing Tribute.... they couldn't have picked a better pick if they tried.... So wonderful...

love this woman

Thank you Bette for singing such a beautiful song on a day the world was aching.Could not have sang a more perfect song.RIP A.R.K

I am from the Netherlands (Holland) and I can't imagine how it was to have such a disaster for you, Americans. I wish you all the luck!

Takes a great performer to bring down a huge audience with just a few piano chords. You just heard a great entertainer at her best. Perez sent me here, thanks Perez

Love her!!!❤