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 Posted: 09/08/17 7:37 am ::: Gander, Newfoundland - An Oasis of Kindness (a 9/11 Story) |
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| Sixteen years ago, this small Canadian town on an island in the North Atlantic Ocean took in nearly 6,700 people – almost doubling its population – when the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York and Washington forced 38 planes to land here. |
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| “I'm scared at the way we're going and what the world will look like in 10 years,” says Elliott, 67. “If we keep on going, we’re going to set our world back 100 years.” |
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Bus drivers in the middle of a nasty strike laid down picket signs. Donations of toiletries, clothes, toys, towels, toothbrushes, pillows, blankets and bedding piled up. For security reasons, passengers weren’t allowed to take checked bags.
Gander residents began cooking — a lot. Grocery store shelves went bare. The Walmart ran out of nearly everything — underwear was a particularly hot commodity — and the local hockey rink transformed into the world’s largest refrigerator. |
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| Many here don’t understand the division and hate in other parts of the world. |
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| “No matter where you go people are good. I truly believe that in my heart. There’s 1% arseholes everywhere and if this happened where you live, you would help,” says Karen Mills, 54, manager of the Comfort Inn in Gander. “But Newfoundlanders, we’re a different breed in a lot of ways." |
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/09/08/gander-newfoundland-september-11-terror-attacks-kindess-come-from-away/631329001/
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| Posted: 09/08/17 11:36 am ::: |
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| The Broadway show, COME FROM AWAY, tells this story of those 5 days in Gander. The story is beautiful. I've seen it 4 time already and am going back in a few weeks in my birthday. Considering the state this country and world are in right now, we need this story to be told. There will also be a production opening in Toronto in February 2018 and a national tour starting in October 2018. GO SEE THIS SHOW!!!
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