GANDER, NEWFOUNDLAND – The passengers staggered into the vast terminal, bewildered and bleary-eyed, hours after their planes touched down. They hadn't seen the towers fall. They knew little of the attacks – only what they'd gathered from scattered cellphone conversations before their batteries died or from their pilots, who shared radio news reports. It was incomprehensible. Few had any idea where they were. They stared at a map someone had taped to the wall, showing Canada's easternmost provinces. A hand-drawn arrow pointed to a place called Gander. "You are here," it said. But where? Gander looked about 1,000 miles from New York. The terminal looked like something left over from the Cold...
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