Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: mitchbert
You're thinking about Gander, Newfoundland, where the locals basically showed up at the airport with offers of food and lodging.

If you ever feel like you're losing your faith in humanity, read The Day The World Came To Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

There's a touching section about the CEO of Hugo Boss (stuck in Gander) refusing to take gourmet food brought to him by a Hugo Boss associate because he felt that doing so would be an insult to the people of Gander who had been so kind to him and his fellow passengers.

320 posted on 06/03/2005 10:41:48 AM PDT by Modernman ("Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." -Bismarck)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 212 | View Replies ]


To: Modernman
If you ever feel like you're losing your faith in humanity, read The Day The World Came To Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

It's a great book, you'll laugh, you'll cry... Thanks for posting the name of the book, I lost track of it when I had almost finished it, and did not want to go into the hell known as "the schoolroom" to find it.

325 posted on 06/03/2005 10:52:23 AM PDT by blu (This post edited for brevity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 320 | View Replies ]

To: Modernman

I've been looking for that book for a while now. I guess I'll have to order it online.


362 posted on 06/03/2005 7:06:16 PM PDT by NorthOf45
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 320 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson