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sl8

(13,786 posts) Tue Sep 11, 2018, 11:34 AM Sep 2018

On 9/11, a tiny Canadian town opened its runways and heart to 7,000 stranded travelers

From https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/on-sept-11-a-tiny-canadian-town-opened-its-runways-and-heart-to-7000-stranded-travelers/2016/09/08/89d875da-75e5-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a45f16b97b81

On 9/11, a tiny Canadian town opened its runways and heart to 7,000 stranded travelers

Stranded passengers waking up on Sept. 13, 2001, in the gymnasium at Gander Academy, an elementary school in Newfoundland. (Scott Cook/Canadian Press)

By Petula Dvorak
September 10, 2016

Fifteen years ago, on the day the World Trade Center fell, the Pentagon burned and almost 3,000 people died, hundreds of aircraft carrying thousands of passengers were ordered to land.

Any one of the planes in the air that morning of Sept. 11, 2001, could have been another death missile. Who knew how big this terrorist attack was?

When the United States shut down its airspace, tiny Gander International Airport in Newfoundland opened its runways, taking in 38 wide-body planes on transatlantic routes.

And this is where one of the many inspiring stories of 9/11 unfolded.

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lark

(23,105 posts)

1. Canadians are nice folks and good neighbors.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 11:43 AM

Sep 2018

Too bad PUtin is using his tool, agent orange, to try and destroy this great country. I hate the very day he was born and every single little thing about him, he has exactly zero redeeming qualities, the worst person in the world. What he's doing to Canada is just so tragic and wrong, it would be unbelievable from anyone but the orange excrement.

ailsagirl

(22,897 posts)

2. They ARE

Reply to lark (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 11:49 AM

Sep 2018

I can 100% vouch for it!!

Zoonart

(11,869 posts)

3. Basis for the TONY Award wining musical COME FROM AWAY

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 12:00 PM

Sep 2018

TONY Awards prpogram live performance pf THE ROCK from COME FROM AWAY

KatyaR

(3,445 posts)

5. There's a book as well.

Reply to Zoonart (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 01:00 PM

Sep 2018

The Day The World Came to Town. I cried all the way thru it.

Zoonart

(11,869 posts)

7. Did not know that.

Reply to KatyaR (Reply #5)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 01:43 PM

Sep 2018

thanks for the tip.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)

4. And Trump shits all over that great country

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 12:58 PM

Sep 2018

To know how great our relationship with Canada has been, what great neighbors, just makes me furious that Trump is trying to destroy that special relationship.

KT2000

(20,583 posts)

6. real blankets too

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 01:14 PM

Sep 2018

Canada lives their values. Love them.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)

8. Don't forget the hundreds of Canadian/Canadien

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 03:56 PM

Sep 2018

Firefighters, first responders and medical staff that flooded into the NYC area to assist.

ariadne0614

(1,730 posts)

9. Thanks for posting this.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 08:03 PM

Sep 2018

I shared it with my daughter and son-in-law, who live in Toronto. As a birthday gift, she took me to see “Come From Away,” the musical based on this story. It was one of the most powerful theater experiences I’ve ever had, and a wonderful respite from the dystopian nightmare we’re living under since that depraved creature took over the White House.

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