One hundred and twenty-six hours passed between the time the first plane landed in Gander on Tuesday and the last plane departed on Sunday. It would take several more days for the town to recover physically—the shelters cleaned, the schools reopened, the stores restocked—but much longer for the people to absorb the magnitude of what had happened. In the past, it had always been easy for the citizens of Gander to drown out events in other parts of the world because they always seemed so far removed. Gander, after all, was a safe place to live. A community that prided itself on unlocked doors
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