“There was no hatred. No anger. No fear in Gander. Only the spirit of community. Here, everyone was equal, everyone was treated the same. Here, the basic humanity of man wasn’t just surviving but thriving. And Baldessarini understood that he was a witness to it and it was affecting him in ways he’d never imagined.”
― The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
― The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
“The language difficulties didn’t seem to bother the kids, who acted as if they had been playing together for years.”
― The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
― The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
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