Growing up I always loved watching remember the titans, hearing and reading the thing Gerry did just inspires me to so many great things!!

What an inspirational story – if only the world had more people like Gerry.

I wish I could have met Garry sounds like he was one heck of a football player.
When he played in his senior year I was I 7th grade me playing football for the very fist
time playing all throught high school ball it was a great time.
Watching the movie Remember the titans really brought back thos
School days of playing I felt good about it but I really wish I could have
Met Garry you see I also played middle linebacker also.

The foundation has not impacted my life.However Gerry Bertier did.I went to school with Gerry at Hammond High School and played freshman football with him.He was a nice young man.We had many classes together and ate lunch and talked about what most young men talk about.The accident that caused the spinal cord injury to him was such an injustice to someone of this mans character.He was hardworking and honest.I am convinced that he would have played professional football and I would be attending his induction into the football hall of fame.

This is a great organization to help people with these types of injuries and how fitting that Gerry’s name would the driving force to help these people and with his legacy. I think of him often with that big smile and his positive attitude.He made the world a better place in the short time he was on the earth.Thanks for the memories. John Risoldi Sr.

I am so happy that the new website has launched just in time for the 2012 charity golf tournament. Designing and developing the site for Gerry’s wonderful family and friends was truly a joy to me.

I am so impressed by the work of this foundation and by what they have already achieved since being founded in 2005. I wish them well as they continue to inspire the community with their mission.

I am looking forward to meeting many more friends of the Bertier Foundation at the tournament this year!

I have watched this movie numerous times and the most inspirational and moving part for me is the left side, strong side scene. That scene gives me goosebumps everytime i watch it. I watch it everyday of my life. Gerry and Julius coming together not only as a team, but also watching a friendship develop is captivating. I want to thank the people who continue to tell Gerry’s story through the foundation. God Bless all of you.
Ryan

Congratulations to the Bertier Foundation on a fabulous new web site design! It is a great way to share Gerry’s story and vision to assist others with physical disabilities. Well done. I will visit back often!

The new site looks awesome. Great job guys!

If the real Gerry Bertier was anything like he was portrayed in the film; Remember The Titans, he was and still is an inspiration to fellow handicapped people around the world. His leadership qualities on the football pitch have been inspirational to me personally and I hope to lead by his example in the future.

I’m incredibly sorry this happened to such a talented individual. But he’ll still be helping others in Heaven. God Bless.

I watched Remember the titans with my students 3/10/12 and it was such an honor to introduce a moving film to a generation of youth that need positive role models with heroic hearts, seeing them become unified men from the soul.
I first watched remember the titans several years ago. I am grateful to watch it on DVD as much as I want. Gerry had a heart of gold and he was willinging to connect with his brothers from another race. I am sure he is in heaven yet continuing to open his heart to the courageous brothers of other races that shall come. Thank you for sharing him with all of us and showing us that all black & white people must remember the titans.

This foundation is a wonderful tribute to someone who was my friend from grade school right up through high school and his terrible accident. Gerry had an indomitable spirit who achieved some remarkable landmarks in a life cut short with tragedy. It must be gratifying to his family and friends to celebrate his life, my gratitude to the organizers of this foundation. Gerry you are missed by so many.

I have watched Remember The Titans at least a dozen times. The movie is so inspirational! Gerry’s will to overcome a terrible tragedy should be an inspiration to all. What a terrible loss, my thoughts and prayers are and always will be with him, his family and friends. God Bless.

Gerry Bertier was a great guy and a good friend. He had a strong spirit and a love of life. His spirit lives on as we come to the year 2012. I hope to get involved with the foundation this coming year, and encourage everyone to give.

Heard about this inspirational man through the movie ‘remember the titans’ and this has given me a motivation to succeed and do well in life to grab life full on and not let anything stop you. Gerry Bertier I salute your braveness and determination its just sad you were taken down in your prime.

“Remember The Titians” and Gerry Bertier are two names that will go down in history. I show the movie “Remember the Titians” to my English class each term. I use the movie to motivate my students to let them know they can achieve their dreams and write their own success story. I hate that Mr. Bertier’s life was cut short but he left an amazing story for generations to come to be inspired by.

Gerry was my best friend, and is my Angel…I can tell you… Knowing him from 1975, and having met his dear Mom, he was indeed a blessing! I love Gerry Bertier!

Until recently, I resided in the city of Milledgeville, GA, where Coach Yoast attended GMC (that is where I met Coach, after having corresponded with him for several months, about six years ago). Having been deafened, by Meningitis, when I was ten and having experienced mobility issues for the past 15 years, I understand the frustrations that Gerry must have endured because, although I don’t have a lot of problems, communicating, with people, other Deaf citizens do. And, although I can still walk, using Canadian Canes, I cannot walk far and must utilize a skooter because I don’t posses the shoulder strength needed to push a wheelchair. As I’ve told Yoast, I wish I’d had a teacher, like him, while I was the only Deaf kid in a class, filled with students, who could hear. I think anybody, with a disability, who has been pushed into a circumstance, where everybody else is “normal,” would feel that way. It is encouraging that some of us have succeeded in ways that nobody would expect though….I’m happy to know that Gerry was one of those.

I have to say, it has been quite a while since I last saw Remember the Titans. Then it suddenly appeared again on TV about a week or so ago. I got hooked once again to it that it drove my parents crazy. I am a senior in high school at Lower Merion and I have to say our football team is horrible. Compared to TC our team is one of the worst.

Over the course of the last week I realized how important once again that Gerry’s foundation is. I am attending Temple University in the fall bringing a whole new set of opportunity in 2011. I thought over it and I contacted many of the new students I have met to find out how many fans we have of Remember the Titans, and received instant responses from many saying they LOVE it.

I told them I wanted to come up with an idea of some way that we could help Gerry’s foundation. We started thinking of ideas and I receive ideas from a variety of students. Temple permits us to create our own club or organization as long as we have ten people to start it.

I wanted to create an organization in Gerry’s name as well, and connect it back to the foundation. We could raise money from doing benefit concerts being musicians. Someone even suggested maybe funding to do a scholarship in Gerry’s name and get the football team involved. I have contacted the foundation hoping we could help do a variety of events, and I want Gerry’s family and friends and the coaches of course to see that there are people out of state that still have respect

Mrs. Bertier, you gave birth not only to Gary, but I wanted you to know that you also gave birth to so many dreams, telling Gary’s story. My son is a High School Middle Linebacker who overcame many obstacles, to realize through back breaking, physically exhausting, mentally draining work, he can do anything he sets his mind too. My son suffers from the detrimental impairments of Autism. As a young boy it was very apparent he was very afflicted, today, when he runs out on that field and lines up, feet shaking, body vibrating just waiting for the snap so he can hit his opponent with the strength and power of a raging bull! I’m sure his opponent has no idea that he has Autism … and I’m also sure they just don’t want him to do that to them again, … ever.

The Foundation did a great job with The 5th Annual Gerry Bertier Charity Golf Tournament at Canon Ridge Golf Club. Keep up the good work, you are a Blessing to so many that benefit from this charity. Rodney