Last Night's Viewing: Stranded Yanks (2002)

Last night I caught up with the documentary STRANDED YANKS, which presents a heartwarming and reassuring flip side to the tragedy of 9/11, in that it tells the story of thousands of good and caring people. The program is about the many thousands of Americans who were stranded in remote areas of Canada when their planes were grounded due to the closing of U.S. airspace on 9/11. Entire towns pitched in to care for the grounded passengers in the anxious days which followed.

The experiences in one such town, Gander, Newfoundland, are chronicled in the moving book The Day the World Came to Town. Gander, normally a town of 10,000, cared for 6,000 stranded travelers.

You can also read more in this October 2001 post at Free Republic.