The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

by Jim DeFede

New York State trooper. Each day before work he would set off from his Brooklyn apartment and jog along the waterway separating that borough from Staten Island. The first half of his run would be south, with his back to Manhattan. He ran under the

was assigned to intelligence units, mostly

stranded. In most cases, the passengers didn’t