The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland Free Audiobook Download by Jim DeFede

On September 11, 2001, Gander was chosen as the city that would host a massive influx of international visitors to watch America vent its rage. The tiny Newfoundland town, now known as Little America, was inundated with more than 5,000 people representing every continent. For two weeks they came and left with stories of tragedy and triumph.

In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Gander and its surrounding towns were the first things to be evacuated from the mainland. With no commercial flights and all but one runway closed due to debris on the tarmac, it soon became apparent that America's only hope for getting out of this mess would be if a group of airline captains could get their planes off the ground.

Jim DeFede is a CNN analyst and an award-winning journalist from New York who, on September 11th, 2001, worked for the ABC affiliate in New York City. After being pulled off the air at 2:30 pm that day and told to pack his bags and leave town with his family, he found himself working alongside a team of reporters, producers, technicians and production staff who'd been dispatched to Gander Falls, Newfoundland.

When Jim DeFede was fifteen years old, he and his family were living in Gander, Newfoundland. They were caught up in the aftermath of 9/11 where he and his classmates helped the stranded passengers from around the world. This novel is a story about how one day changed everything for those who lived it.

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede In a day of September 11th, 2001, five years after the events of September 11th, the city of Gander Newfoundland was abandoned. One thousand flights had been canceled due to the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C.

On September 11th, 2001, Jim DeFede's brother called to tell him that New York had been hijacked. Moments later a second call came in from Gander, Newfoundland--a tiny town with a population of almost 16,000. The local airport was full of empty planes and passengers were looking for somewhere else to land. Jim eventually found out that after the attacks on the US mainland, more than one-third of all aircraft worldwide took refuge in Gander--including dozens of flights from countries around the world.