Angels of Hope

On September 11, 2001, tens of thousands of travelers were stranded in the air, unable to land in the United States. Six thousand of those passengers were diverted to a small town in Newfoundland called Gander. This is the story of the unparalleled compassion they experienced in Gander in the dark days after 9/11.

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[Dexflorida]

Friends. I landed in Gander that day and it blows my mind how people were there for myself and the other stranded. It turns out you can fall in love with a country and its people pretty quick. So from an American...I love Canada. You are the best people in the world and I hope that we can learn kindness from you guys. May God bless the maple leaf and espesially Newfoundland. Also, screech is like drinking liquid fire.

[hbtharle]

Well we are the poorest in terms of money. But we are the richest in terms of what matters! I am from outside Gander and we collected food; I was proud of my neighbors and I am proud of this thank you from the Americans.

[ralphyization]

@Dexflorida I'm not from Newfoundland, but I am Canadian, and they made us so proud!! My city landed a few planes that day, but we didn't have the large runway to land big planes. Just a few hundred landed here.

[LongDrivesAtNight]

Bus driver...."we believe in doing good deeds for good people, especially Americans..." Yup, got that right...God Bless Newfoundland, God Bless Canada and God Bless the USA. It's sad our long undefended border now has to have such more stricter border rules due to the fact we have allowed the wrong people to live amongst us and that certain religion that spawns not only terror groups but other groups who preach an ideology of a "cultural jihad" on the west.

[jjamurray]

I lived through such a similar experience on 9:11 but in Stephenville, Newfoundland. This video depicts so accurately what we went through

[tiphny]

Wow. Its so nice to be reassured that there are genuinely good people in this world. It's so easy to forget sometimes. Truly an amazing story.

[AuthenticPRFirm]

Thank you Canada. I don't want to forget you and your good people for your warmth, love and hospitality.

[italo36]

@ScoobieD0

You're welcome my friend.

As a Canadian living in a suburb of Montreal, I remember seeing on the news what this little town was able to accomplish and I remember that deverted planes bound for the USA landed all accross Canada is the biggest cities such as Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Calgary and I think that a total of 250 airliners totalling 50,000 people where greeted from across Canada

[Joelpd666]

Born and raised in Gander myself. I'll never forget that day. I got sent home from middle school, my dad was one of the senior Air Traffic Controllers at Nav Canada. I didn't see him for three days he was that busy working. Our population tripled in a little over a day. It's something that will stick with me for the rest of my life.

[mirage08]

What an amazing story. 

[baybrez1]

I watched this story several yrs ago. Very moving.

[SorryForPartyRockin8]

I'm from Gander and even though I was only six years old at the time, I'm so proud of what we did but still wish I could have done something more. Being 16 now I can't believe how long it's been. We took in 38 planes that day in out small town of 10,000 people which then became 17,000. W're have a ceremony tomorrow. R.I.P to those who lost their lives.