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Originally Posted by newfiemountiewife
However, my hometown, is just 40 minutes from Gander, NL, where many, many of the diverted planes landed. They housed and fed many of the stranded passengers, setting up places in schools, people took strangers into their homes to provide shelter and meals. I was not living home at the time, but I was so proud of my community for stepping up and providing for these people. Many of those passengers travel back every year, some have set up scholarships for my hometown schools, some set up a fully equpped computer lab for the middle school there. Delta Airlines also matched some of the scholarship funds as well.
To me 9/11 was the worst in humanity. But I also saw the best in it too. I found a link to one passengers story, there was a story on CNN but I can't find the video for it now. I can't believe it was so long ago.
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Jamie - that's awesome! We usually hear the horror and sadness, and it's good to hear about the 'good' stories that came from the tragedy.
Sometimes, I remember that night more than the day. I could not turn off the TV. We slept with the TV on for days when they were still doing 24 hr coverage because neither of us could bare turning off the rescue workers who were trying to save survivors. We just couldn't turn our backs on them. So our bedroom tv stayed on for days.