Monday, October 18, 2021

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede ★★★★★

Photo of people just having deplaned at the Gander Airport
“Despite the risks, Canada didn’t hesitate to accept the orphaned planes.” 

Feel good story of the decade!
On 9/11, when the United States closed its airspace, the danger posed by the passengers, and the responsibility for their lives, was deflected to Canada. 

Canada's response: 
Welcome to Canada sign in red bedecked with yellow white and red maple leaves

The stories from Gander are the best of human kindness. Jim DeFede has gathered the warmth, humor, pain, and generosity of a remarkable moment in history. 

Everyone should read this book.

*audible note: I enjoyed the steady, warm, male narrators voice: a dad's voice.

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