Original Broadcaster Captioning (Enhanced). Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a quotation record.
00:00:40TEST TEST TEST >>> TWO AIRPLANES HAVE CRASHED INTO WORLD TRADE
00:00:44CENTRE IN AN APPARENT TERRORIST ATTACK ON OUR
00:00:46COUNTRY.
00:00:53[SIRENS] [♪♪]
00:00:58>> THOSE ALLIANCES WE HOLD
00:01:00DEAR SEEMS TO BE PAYING OFF AS PEOPLE COME FORWARD TO
00:01:04HELP US. >> I DON'T THINK WHAT WENT ON HERE WOULD HAVE HAPPENED
00:01:07ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD.
00:01:16>> YOU WANT TO BE SO, SO PROUD OF EVERYONE HERE.
00:01:19>> EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE
00:01:21PULLED TOGETHER, YOU KNOW?
00:01:25>> I'M SHOWING IT FOR EVERYBODY. THE STUFF IS ON TELEVISION
00:01:28NOW, BEING WORST OF WHAT WE'RE CAPABLE OF AND COME
00:01:31HERE AND BEING THE BEST OF
00:01:33WHAT WE'RE CAPABLE OF IS SO AMAZING.
00:01:36[APPLAUSE]
00:01:37STHOT [♪♪]
00:01:52>> David: HELLO, I'M DAVID COMMON AT THE ARENA IN
00:01:55GANDER, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR.
00:01:58>> AND I'M CAROLINE STOKES. WELCOME TO SPECIAL COVERAGE
00:02:00MARKING 25 YEARS SINCE THE
00:02:049-11 TERRORIST ATTACKS AND CANADA'S RESPONSE TO THAT TRAGEDY.
00:02:07IN ABOUT HALF AN HOUR, A SPECIAL CEREMONY WILL TAKE
00:02:10PLACE HERE TO COMMEMORATE IT.
00:02:14>> David: AS PEOPLE ARE GATHERING HERE AT THE ARENA, WE REMEMBER CANADA SAFELY
00:02:18LANDING MORE THAN 200
00:02:19FLIGHTS THAT DAY, 9-11 1
00:02:22ACROSS ATLANTIC CANADA.
00:02:24PERHAPS THE MOST KNOWN RIGHT HERE, GANDER.
00:02:27A SMALL COMMUNITY WITH A BIG HEART AND A BIG RUNWAY.
00:02:30IT'S NEARLY DOUBLED ITS POPULATION ON 9-11.
00:02:34>> ABSOLUTELY. KNOWN SIMPLY AS "PLANE PEOPLE," THOUSANDS OF
00:02:38TRAVELLERS WHOSE FLIGHTS WERE FORCED TO LAND, LANDED
00:02:41RIGHT HERE. THEY WERE FACING FEAR AND UNCERTAINTY. THEY WERE GREETED THOUGH
00:02:45WITH KINDNESS AND COMFORT. GANDER AND SURROUNDING
00:02:48COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING APPLE
00:02:50TONNE, LEWISPORTE -- AP
00:02:54APPLETON, LEWISPORTE AND
00:02:57GANDER SHELTERED TRAVELLING -- TRAVELLERS AND TURNED
00:03:01STRANGERS INTO FRIENDS. >> David: LET'S DEAL WITH
00:03:04THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. THE BOND BETWEEN U.S. AND CANADA IS BEING TESTED.
00:03:08IN THE AFTERMATH OF 9-11, OF COURSE, WE FOUGHT A WAR
00:03:11TOGETHER. AFGHANISTAN COST 158 CANADIAN SOLDIERS THEIR
00:03:15LIVES, SOLDIERS WHO WENT TO AFGHANISTAN TO SUPPORT THE
00:03:19U.S. EFFORT.
00:03:20NOW A DIFFERENT WAR LOOMS, A
00:03:23TRADE WAR. AND JUST LOOKING AT PEOPLE
00:03:27GATHERING HERE, CAROLYN, I
00:03:29AM STRUCK BY THE TONE. WE'VE SEEN THE CEREMONIES OF
00:03:33THE PENTAGON AND GROUND ZERO.
00:03:35IT'S NOT QUITE THAT. IT IS THAT, BUT IT'S ALSO MORE.
00:03:38>> YEAH, THERE'S DEFINITELY A DIFFERENT FEELING HERE.
00:03:41THERE'S THE SOMBRENESS OF THE CEREMONY AND REMEMBERING
00:03:45ALL OF THOSE LIVES LOST, BUT THERE'S ALSO A LITTLE BIT OF
00:03:48CELEBRATION HAPPENING, BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE REUNITING WITH OLD FRIENDS.
00:03:52>> David: YEAH, YEAH, SEEING AS MANY SMILES, AS WE ARE TEARS.
00:03:55I INTERESTING. IN IT CEREMONY, THE GOVERNOR GENERAL WILL BE HERE.
00:03:59SO, TOO, JEAN CHRETIEN, PRIME MINISTER ON 9-11, AND
00:04:03THERE'S ANOTHER GUY. U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CANADA
00:04:06AND HIS ATTENDANCE, FRANKLY,
00:04:09HAS COURT PH.D CRITICISM. SOME PEOPLE DON'T WANT HIM
00:04:13HERE -- SOME CRITICISM.
00:04:16LAURA HOULZ IS AT THE ARENA. TELL US ABOUT -- HOWELLS IS
00:04:20AT THE ARENA. TELL US ABOUT THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT PETE HOEKSTRA.
00:04:24>> HE'S DRAWN A LOT OF IRE FROM CANADIANS, AMPLIFYING
00:04:26TRUMP'S 51st STATE THREAT,
00:04:30THE TRADE WAR. THERE WAS A PETITION, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
00:04:33CANADIANS ASKING FOR HIM TO BE KICKED OUT OF COUNTRY.
00:04:37HIM COMING TO THIS EVENT IN GANDER, THERE'S BEEN SOME PUSHBACK TO THAT.
00:04:41THE TOWN OF GANDER PUT OUT A
00:04:43STATEMENT, DEPENDING HIS
00:04:46DECISION TO DEFEND HIM.
00:04:48YOU SPOKE WITH PETE HOEKSTRA
00:04:50WHEN HE ARRIVED IN GANDER YESTERDAY.
00:04:53HE SAID ABOUT THANKING PEOPLE OF GANDER AND THEIR GENEROSITY.
00:04:57HERE'S MORE OF WHAT HE HAD TO SAY.
00:04:59>> THIS FOR THE PEOPLE THAT
00:05:019-11 IMPACTED, THE 3,000
00:05:04PEOPLE THAT WERE KILLED, THE 7,000 THAT MADE THEIR WAY TO
00:05:07GANDER, THE 9,000 PEOPLE IN
00:05:11GANDER THAT OPENED THEIR HOMES, OPENED THEIR HEARTS
00:05:14TO 14 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES,
00:05:16PRIMARILY, AMERICANS.
00:05:18YOU KNOW, WE'LL GET BACK TO THE ECONOMIC ISSUES, AT
00:05:22LEAST FROM OUR STANDPOINT.
00:05:25YOU KNOW, WHEN WE GET PAST
00:05:299-11. >> David: LAURA, HERE INSIDE
00:05:32THE ARENA, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE FILTERING IN, TAKING
00:05:34THEIR SEATS AMONG THEM, DIGNITARIES AND SPECIAL
00:05:37GUESTS, BUT ALSO THE PLAIN PEOPLE. I LOVE THIS TERM.
00:05:40REALLY CAME TO PROMINENCE GLOBALLY BECAUSE IT CAME
00:05:43FROM A MUSICAL A TELLS THE TALE OF GANDER AND
00:05:47COMMUNITIES. CAN YOU TAKE ME THROUGH SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE
00:05:50WALKING IN THE DOOR?
00:05:53>> Reporter: AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S A LONG LINE-UP OF
00:05:56PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING IN. THERE HAVE BEEN PEOPLE
00:05:59LINING UP SINCE SHORTLY AFTER NOON.
00:06:03SO MANY PEOPLE COMING FROM HERE, NEWFOUNDLAND, ACROSS CANADA.
00:06:07AS YOU SAID, SO MANY OF THESE PLANE PEOPLE WHO CAME
00:06:10BACK TO GANDER, MANY OF THEM FOR FIRST I'M A QUARTER CENTURY.
00:06:14THEY HAVEN'T BEEN BACK SINCE THAT FATEFUL DAY.
00:06:17I HAVE WITH ME TWO OF THE ULTIMATE PLANE PEOPLE, THE
00:06:20PILOT OF THE TWO OF THE PLANES THAT LANDED IN BA
00:06:23BANNEDER THAT DAY. >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING US.
00:06:27>> Reporter: YOU WERE PILOT IN A PLANE. YOU CAME UP AND MET A GUY.
00:06:30I SAW YOU COME UP, PLEA HIM AND EMBRACE.
00:06:33>> MY NAME IS DICK OVIO, I
00:06:37WAS THE CAPTAIN ON FLIGHT 45
00:06:40COMING FROM MILAN, ITALY, COMING INTO NEW YORK.
00:06:43OF COURSE, WE ENDED UP IN GANDER.
00:06:46>> Reporter: HAVE YOU TWO SEEN EACH TO OTHER SINCE?
00:06:50>> YOU'VE SEEN THE PICTURE OF ALL THE AIRPLANES ON
00:06:53TARMAC THAT DAY. THE LAST TWO WERE OUR AIRPLANES.
00:06:56HE WAS THE LAST ONE IT LAND THERE. I WAS THE NEXT.
00:06:59>> I BLOCKED HIM IN SO I COULD LEAVE FIRST.
00:07:02WE NEVER MET BEFORE UNTIL THIS TIME. >> Reporter: WHAT IS THIS
00:07:05LIKE MEETING NOW? >> IT'S FANTASTIC. >> WAS GREAT.
00:07:09WE HIT OFF IMMEDIATELY, WONDERFUL. >> HE WAS THE CAPTAIN ON
00:07:13U.S. AIR FLIGHT AND I WAS CONTINENTAL.
00:07:16>> Reporter: TAKE ME BACK TO THAT MOMENT 25 YEARS AGO AND
00:07:20YOU'RE FLYING, AIRSPACE IS CLOSED. YOU GOT TO LAND.
00:07:23WHAT'S GOING THROUGH YOUR HEAD? >> WE'RE TRAINED TO KNOW
00:07:27THERE'S ALWAYS A CHANCE SOMETHING IS GOING TO CHANGE, SOMETIMES DRAMATICALLY.
00:07:30INSTEAD OF PLAN A, WE ALWAYS HAVE A PLAN B.
00:07:33WE DIDN'T KNOW IN THIS CASE WHICH PLAN B WOULD BE, BUT
00:07:37IN THIS CASE, IT'S EITHER
00:07:39STEPHENSVILLE OR GANDER. THERE IS BETTER WEATHER IN
00:07:42GANDER. LET'S GO THERE. HE MADE THE SAME DECISION.
00:07:46WE ENDED UP THERE. >> IT WAS FULL WHEN YOU TRIED TO LAND.
00:07:50YOU WERE THE LAST PLANE, RIGHT? >> GANDER WAS FULL, AND WE
00:07:53FELT LIKE WE WERE RUN THING OUT OF OPTIONS. SO I MADE ONE MORE PLEA TO
00:07:57GANDER. I EXPLAINED IT'S BEEN A LONG DAY UP HERE AND WE HAVE MANY
00:08:01PASSENGER THAT'S WOULD LOVE TO LAND. THIS IS WHAT I FOUND OUT
00:08:04WHAT A NEWFOUNDLANDER IS LIKE. THEY SAID, OK, UNDERSTOOD.
00:08:08COME ON IN. WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT WHEN YOU
00:08:10GET HERE, AND I THOUGHT WOW, THIS IS GREAT.
00:08:14>> Reporter: WHAT DO YOU MOST REMEMBER ABOUT THAT TIME?
00:08:18STAYING HERE AND COMFORT
00:08:19YOUR PASSENGER. WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER?
00:08:23>> I GUESS FOR ME FOR ME,
00:08:27THE MINDSET OF NEWFOUNDLANDERS, THEY WERE WELCOMING PEOPLE FROM ALL
00:08:30OVER THE WORLD, STRANGERS AND TREATED THEM LIKE FAMILY
00:08:34MEMBERS. THEY OPENED UP THEIR HOMES.
00:08:37THEY GAVE CAR KEITH SOME OF
00:08:38THE PEOPLE DRIVE AROUND.
00:08:43THEY FED THEM. IT THEY HOUSED THEM. WAS AMAZING.
00:08:47I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING
00:08:52LIKE IT. THAT WAS IMPRESSION I HAD.
00:08:54I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYONE LIKE STRANGERS AND TREAT THEM
00:08:58LIKE FAMILY. >> MY TAKEAWAY FROM THIS IS GANDER IT SOMETHING SO IMPORTANT THAT DAY.
00:09:02WHAT THEY DID WAS SET ON EXAMPLE FOR THE WORLD, A
00:09:05LASTING EXAMPLE FOR THE WORLD OF WHAT KINDNESS AND
00:09:08COMPASSION AND HUMANITY IS ALL ABOUT.
00:09:11AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S CLOSE TO MY HEART.
00:09:15I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT
00:09:16MESSAGE RIGHT NOW, AND I'M
00:09:19GLAD THEY DID THIS, AND IT WAS JUST WONDERFUL.
00:09:22>> Reporter: YOU TOLL ME EARLIER THAT YOUR -- TOLD ME
00:09:26EARLIER THAT YOUR EXPERIENCE CHANGED YOUR LIFE. >> IT DID.
00:09:29I FELT DIFFERENTLY ABOUT HOW I WOULD TREAT PEOPLE AND WHAT THE NEWFOUNDLANDERS
00:09:33WERE LIKE, AND GANDER AND
00:09:39CANADA, AND SO I CARRY THIS
00:09:42WITH ME FOR 25 YEARS INTO YOU'RE BOTH AMERICANS.
00:09:46VERY DIFFERENT TIMES RIGHT HOW IT FOR U.S. AND CANADA. HOW DO YOU FEEL LOOKING AT
00:09:49THE RELATIONSHIP IN OUR COUNTRIES RIGHT NOW?
00:09:53>> MY DAUGHTER STANDING BY. SHE SAID DAD, WHEN YOU COME
00:09:57UP, I HAVE TO SAY THIS WITH ALL MY HEART.
00:10:00MY PASSION IS SO MUCH HERE
00:10:01WITH CANADA AND ESPECIALLY
00:10:05NEWFOUNDLAND, THAT THERE MILLIONS PERSONS LIKE ME
00:10:07THAT STAND WITH CANADA 100%, AND ARE HOPING THE NIGHTMARE
00:10:11THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH NOW IS GOING TO END REAL SHO SHORTLY.
00:10:14THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY. I DON'T WANT TO GET TOO MUCH
00:10:16INTO IT, BUT I'M SERIOUS,
00:10:19AND I'M REALLY HOPEFUL. >> Reporter: THANK YOU BOTH
00:10:22SO MUCH FOR SPEAKING WITH ME. TWO OF THE PILOTS WHO LANDED
00:10:26THE LAST TWO PLANES AT GANDER AIRPORT ON SEPTEMBER
00:10:2911th, 2001. THANK YOU. BACK TO YOU, DAVID.
00:10:32>> David: LAURA, THANK YOU.
00:10:34LAURA, THANK YOU VERY MUCH
00:10:39YEAH, QUITE SOMETHING HEARING FROM LAURA THIS,
00:10:42HEARING FROM APOLOGIES FROM
00:10:44PLANE PEOPLE, CAROLYN. >> THE CELEBRATION AND SOME
00:10:48OF THE THINGS HAPPENING DURING THAT TIME, FOR SURE. JOINING US NOW TO TALK ABOUT
00:10:51WHAT WAS LIKE HERE ON THE-11
00:10:54IS MARK QUINN, WHO I WORK WITH IN ST. JOHN'S.
00:10:57WE DROVE OUT FROM ST. JOHN'S TO GANDER A FEW DAYS AGO.
00:11:00MARK, YOU WERE REPORTING FROM HERE IN GANDER ON THAT DAY.
00:11:04TAKE US BACK AND TELL US WHAT IT WAS LIKE.
00:11:07>> YES, I WAS A RADIO REPORTER AT THE TIME.
00:11:10MAKES IT EASY BECAUSE PEOPLE TALK TO YOU WHEN YOU HAVE A MICROPHONE. WHEN I GOT HERE, WAS
00:11:14CONFUSING.
00:11:15THAT'S WORD I WOULD DESCRIBE
00:11:19WHAT WAS HAPPENING. PEOPLE WERE CONFUSED WHO
00:11:22WERE ARRIVING HERE. PEOPLE WERE ABSORBING THAT
00:11:25HAPPENED IN NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA AND WASHINGTON,
00:11:27AND PEOPLE WERE WORRIED THAT MAYBE WAS A BOMB ON ONE OF THE PLANES HERE.
00:11:31MAYBE THIS WAS A TERRORIST ON A PLANE HERE.
00:11:35SO IT WAS A REAL CONCERN WITH WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT
00:11:39AND PEOPLE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT THEY WOULD DO NEXT.
00:11:42SOME THOUGHT WE'LL BE OUT OF HERE TONIGHT. OTHERS THOUGHT THIS IS A BIG DEAL.
00:11:46WE'LL BE HERE A WHILE. I HEARD FROM A FEW WHO
00:11:48RENTED CARS, GOT AROUND T TOWN, NOVA SCOTIA, AND DROVE
00:11:52TO THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE REALISING THEY ARE HERE,
00:11:55NEEDED A PLACE TO STAY, AND
00:11:56THEY STARTED TO SEE K KINDNESS.
00:12:00PEOPLE STARTED -- WE HEARD
00:12:03STORIES OF PEOPLE BEING TAKEN CARE OF. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
00:12:07THE FIRST DAYS WERE CONFUSING. I REMEMBER SPEAKING WITH
00:12:10JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO,
00:12:11WE SPOKE A PERSON WHO WAS ON ONE OF THOSE PLANES.
00:12:15HE TALKED ABOUT THE CONFUSION AND HIS LEARNING
00:12:17ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
00:12:19HE WAS ON ONE OF THOSE PLANES ON AMERICAN FROM VIRGINIA.
00:12:22HERE'S WHAT HE HAD TO SAY.
00:12:24>> I WAS FLYING ON LUFTHANSA
00:12:28416. WE WERE MORE THAN HALFWAY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC WHEN
00:12:31PILOT TOLD US THERE HAVE BEEN TERRORIST INCIDENTS IN
00:12:34U.S. AND WASHINGTON.
00:12:37WE'RE DIVERTING CANADA. MY FIRST THOUGHT THAT'S A
00:12:41LIE BECAUSE U.S. AIRSPACE HAS NEVER BEEN CLOSED. AS PLANE WAS FLYING INTO
00:12:45GANDER AIRPORT AND I A PLANE AFTER PLANE AFTER PLANE
00:12:48LINED UP ON THE TAXIWAYS, I
00:12:52THOUGHT NO, THIS REALLY IS A
00:12:58BIG DEAL. >> AND WE MET HIM JUST RECENTLY.
00:13:02WAS KIND OF A CHANCE MEE MEETING. HE WAS HAD BECAUSE ONCE
00:13:05AGAIN, HE HAD NO ARE TO S STAY.
00:13:07HE HAD AIRBNB CANCEL ON HIM.
00:13:11CAN YOU HELP ME FIND A PLACE NOW.
00:13:14>> THE FORMER MAYOR OF AP APPLETON.
00:13:17YES, HE RETIRED FROM MUNICIPAL POLITICS, BUT HE'S
00:13:20STILL AT, STILL HELPING PEOPLE. HE HELPED TONE YOU FIND A
00:13:24PLACE AGAIN, TO PEOPLE ARE
00:13:25STILL DOING IT I WAS IN
00:13:30APPLE TONNE ITN BACK THEN.
00:13:34WE STARTED HEARING ABOUT
00:13:36STORIES IN PEOPLE IN AP
00:13:39APPLETON AND GLENWOOD. I THOUGHT WE HAVE TO GET OUT TO THESE COMMUNITIES.
00:13:43I WENT TO THE SCHOOL THERE, LAKEVIEW ACADEMY.
00:13:46THERE WERE THREE LOADS OF PEOPLE THERE ON COTS
00:13:49SLEEPING IN THE JIM.
00:13:52OF COURSE SECURITY -- GYM.
00:13:54OF COURSE, SECURITY ISN'T
00:13:56WHAT IT WAS THEN. BACK THEN, WE COULD WALTZ
00:13:59INTO A SCHOOL AND WE IT WALTZ INTO THE SCHOOL, AND WE SAW WHAT WAS HAPPENING
00:14:03THERE. IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STOREY. I MOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A
00:14:07TRAGIC HORRIBLE THAT, BUT IT WAS A LOT OF HUMOUR, K
00:14:10KINDNESS AND LOVE GOING ON.
00:14:11WE WALKED IN AND WE HEARD
00:14:15OVER THE PA SYSTEM, WE HAVE FRESH UNDERWEAR.
00:14:18PEOPLE RUSHED TO THE DESK,
00:14:21ON GOT THEIR UNDERWEAR.
00:14:24WE STARTED BELIEVING THAT THIS WAS A SPECIAL THING AND SOMETHING WE WOULD REMEMBER.
00:14:28>> Reporter: YEAH, YOU CERTAINLY REMEMBER 25 YEARS LATER.
00:14:31HOW IT FEEL FOR YOU GO BACK TO THE SCHOOL AND SEE AGAIN ALL THIS I'M?
00:14:35THAT WAS FIRST TIME YOU WERE PACK. >> IT WAS FIRST TIME I WAS
00:14:38BACK. WAS A FLOOD OF MEMORIES.
00:14:42I HAVE TO ADMIT, I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE WAS.
00:14:44I COULDN'T FIND IT, BUT THE HELPFUL PEOPLE OF GLENWOOD
00:14:48SHOWED ME WHERE WAS. I REMEMBER THE SCHOOL AND
00:14:50THE LAYOUT OF IT, AND THE
00:14:53DESPERATE -- I HEARD THE ANNOUNCEMENT.
00:14:57IT WAS A CONFUSING TIME AND AN EXCITING TIME BECAUSE WE
00:15:01REALIZED WE WERE THIS. THIS GOLD. THESE ARE REALLY INTERESTING
00:15:04STORIES TO BE TOLD. PEOPLE WANTED TO TALK TO US
00:15:06AND THEY HAD STORIES TO T TELL. THERE WAS SUCH A PLETHORA OF
00:15:10STORIES EVERYWHERE YOU TURN. I THINK IT'S THE SAME WAY IT
00:15:13WEEK, BUT EVERYWHERE YOU
00:15:17TURN, IT WAS A DIFFERENT STOREY.
00:15:20I SAID TODAY, KIND OF THE J.F.K. FOR THIS GENERATION.
00:15:24EVERYONE KNEW WHERE THEY WERE WHEN JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS SHOT.
00:15:27EVERYONE CAN REMEMBER DETAIL ABOUT HOW THEY SAW IT. THEY REMEMBER SEEING IT,
00:15:30WHAT WENT THROUGH THEIR MIND AND WHAT EVOLVED FROM THAT.
00:15:33SO PEOPLE REALLY STILL THINKING ABOUT IT.
00:15:36I STILL FEEL LIKE WE'RE IN SOME WAYS STILL MAKING SENSE
00:15:39OF IT, YOU KNOW? AND I FEEL LIKE THE NARRATIVE, THERE'S A
00:15:43NARRATIVE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED. IN GANDER, OF COURSE, NARRATIVE OF KINDNESS.
00:15:47I THINK IT'S ALSO A NARRATIVE ABOUT HOW THE WORLD IS CHANGED BY THIS.
00:15:51THIS ARE WARS THAT HAPPENED FROM THIS, SECURITY HAS CHANGED.
00:15:54PEOPLE HAVE SAID THIS LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE SPLITS WE'RE SEEING IN
00:15:57GOVERNMENT AND ALL THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES THAT ARE STILL AROUND.
00:16:01SO IT WAS THESE COMPETING NARRATIVES.
00:16:04I HOPE GANDER'S NARRATIVE
00:16:05WINS, THAT WE LEARN IT'S
00:16:08IMPORTANT TAKE KIND TO THESE PEOPLE AND RESPECT THEM INSTEAD OF GROUPS THAT HAVE
00:16:12FIGHTING NARRATIVES. THEY CAN'T SEE EYE TO EYE.
00:16:16>> SOME THINGS HAVE CHANGED FOR SURE, BUT SOME THINGS
00:16:19HAVE STAYED THE SAME. I WANT TO ADD WHEN WE WERE
00:16:22IN GLENWOOD AND WE WERE AT THAT SCHOOL, AND YOU SAID
00:16:25YOU RAISED YOUR HAND AT SOMEONE DRIVING DOWN THE
00:16:28STREET, AND THEY WERE LIKE, WHERE'S THE SCHOOL? FOLLOW US.
00:16:32SO THEY TOOK US THERE AND DROVE US THERE.
00:16:34IT WAS A RANDOM ACT OF K KINDNESS.
00:16:37>> David: MARK GOOD SEE YOU. THANKS SO MUCH FOR STOPPING BY.
00:16:40WE'RE HERE, OF COURSE, IN THE ARENA WHERE THIS
00:16:43CEREMONY IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE. A COUPLE OF THINGS IT.
00:16:47PEOPLE BROUGHT FOOD HERE BACK ON 9-11. WHY HERE?
00:16:50BECAUSE IT'S COLD BECAUSE OF THE ICE. PEOPLE PLAYING HOCKEY HERE.
00:16:54IT'S QUITE SOMETHING TO THINK, HOW ALL THOSE DONATION THERE'S BROUGHT
00:16:58FROM MANY OF THE COMMUNITIES MARK WAS TALKING.
00:17:01IN BEHIND ME, DAVID COCHRANE IS SPEAKING.
00:17:04YOU KNOW HIS NAME. "POWER AND POLITICS" HOST
00:17:07FOR CBC THUDS, BUT ALSO AN MC -- CBC NEWS.
00:17:11HE SAID IT'S A GREAT HONOUR FOR HIM TO ARE THIS OPPORTUNITY.
00:17:14HE'S JUST SPEAKING TO THE CROWD RIGHT NOW. WE'LL SEE MORE OF HIM
00:17:18SHORTLY BEFORE THE CEREMONY GETS UNDER WAY.
00:17:21A GUY NAMED DON O'BRIEN, WHO I MET.
00:17:24HE WAS AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER ON DUTY, AND DON
00:17:27WAS TOLD, GET THOSE PLANES OUT OF THE SKY.
00:17:31>> I WENT TO WORK AT 8:00 THIS MORNING.
00:17:34WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY. THANK FWOED WAS NO FOG, NO
00:17:38BAD WEATHER, SORT OF THING -- GOD.
00:17:40I WENT TO WORK AT 8:00 AND
00:17:42EVERYTHING WAS ROUTINE.
00:17:44ABOUT NINEISH LOCAL TIME,
00:17:47THE WORD CAME OUT.
00:17:50TRANSATLANTIC AIR PLANES HAD LANDED IN NEARBY AIRPORTS BECAUSE OF THE ACTIVITY THIS
00:17:54NEW YORK. >> David: YOU GOT THE ORDERS OUT OF OTTAWA SAYING, ALL
00:17:57THESE PLANES TO LAND. YOU HAD TO TAKE THEM. YOU HAD TO FIND PLACES FOR
00:18:00THEM TO GO, BUT THEY HAD TO GET OUT OF THE SKY.
00:18:03THEY CAME BACK PILOTS IN FLIGHT.
00:18:06>> IT WAS QUITE A TASK.
00:18:11THE FREQUENCIES WERE SATURATED COMMUNICATION, SO
00:18:14YOU HAD TO CONVINCE THEM.
00:18:15WE'RE LANDING IN GANDER. WE'RE LANDING IN MEXICO CITY.
00:18:19NO, YOU'RE NOT LANDING IN MEXICO CITY. YOU'RE LANDING IN DPANEDER.
00:18:23-- GANDER. NOBODY KNEW THIS WAS MORE
00:18:27TERRORIST ACTIVITY GOING ON. >> David: HOW MANY PLANES DID YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES
00:18:31HAVE TO BRING DOWN, TO LAND
00:18:33ON SEPTEMBER 11?
00:18:36>> WE HAD 38 IN GANDER.
00:18:40IT WAS 120. >> David: 120 PLANES, EACH
00:18:44WITH 250 PEOPLE ONBOARD.
00:18:45>> WAS GRIDLOCK ON THE GROUND HERE.
00:18:49>> David: DON O'BRIEN THERE
00:18:51WORKING IF GANDER ON 9-11.
00:18:53CAROLYN, HE'S JUST RETIREDS AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER.
00:18:57HE'S 80 YEARS OLD NOW. UNTIL VERY RECENTLY, HE WAS
00:19:00HELPING PLANES CROSS ATLANTIC IN BOTH DIRECTIONS,
00:19:03A KEY PART OF THE AIR TRAFFIC FUNCTION.
00:19:05I GOT SAY, DON O'BRIEN SAID
00:19:07SOME THINGS TO ME WHILE CHATTING WITH HIM THAT I'VE
00:19:11HEARD OVER AND OVER, THAT IT IS THIS SPLIT TONE, THIS
00:19:14SPLIT FOCUS HERE. WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT.
00:19:17YES, REMEMBER THE LIVES. WE MUST REMEMBER THE LIVES
00:19:20LOST, AND THAT EXTENDS TO
00:19:22THOSE KILLED ON 9-11, 24
00:19:24CANADIANS AMONG THEM, 3,000 IN THE UNITED STATES.
00:19:28THOSE WHO DIED IN THE AF AFTERMATH.
00:19:30THE SOLDIERS WHO WENT IT W WAR. 158 CANADIANS.
00:19:33>> 13 NEWFOUNDLANDERS AND
00:19:35LABRADORIANS. >> David: ABSOLUTELY. VERY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER
00:19:39THE LIVES IN THE AFTERMATH,
00:19:41BUT THERE'S ALSO SOME ANGER. DON O'BRIEN, THAT AIR
00:19:44TRAFFIC CONTROLLER IS
00:19:46FRUSTRATED, THIS MOMENT, AND YOU WONDER HOW SOMETHING
00:19:50LIKE THAT WOULD PLAY OUT TODAY. I'M SURE NEWFOUNDLANDERS
00:19:53WOULD OPEN THEIR DOOR AND SHOW HOSPITALITY.
00:19:56>> YEAH, EVERYONE I MEN MENTIONED THAT TO SAID THAT
00:19:59FOR SURE, THEY WOULD DO THE
00:20:01SAME THING EVEN TODAY. >> David: AND YET THERE'S THIS FRUSTRATION.
00:20:05I VERBAL. IT'S PALPABLE. PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT ALL
00:20:08OF THIS -- IT'S VERBAL. IT'S AMAZING TO SEE SOME OF
00:20:11THE THINGS THEY ARE ORG ORGANIZING NOW. BEHIND US, YOU CAN SEE MAIN
00:20:14STAGE THERE, THE FLAGS THAT ARE UP, AND PEOPLE TAKING
00:20:18THEIR SEATS. THE GOVERNOR GENERAL, FORMER
00:20:21PRIME MINISTER JEAN CHR CHRETIEN, EXPECTED IT TAKE HIS SEAT SHORTLY.
00:20:24TONY WAKEHAM, PREMIER OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
00:20:28AMONG THEM. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS, OF
00:20:31COURSE, PLAYED A KEY ROLE.
00:20:32A WAS THE OPERATION CALLED?
00:20:36>> THE OPERATION WAS CALLED
00:20:38OPERATION YELLOW RIBBON, AND
00:20:40THE GROUNDING -- IT INVOLVED GROUNDING OF HUNDREDS OF
00:20:44PLANES. CHRISSY HOLMES ACTUALLY AT GANDER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
00:20:48RIGHT NOW WHERE ALL OF THOSE PLANES LANDED ON THAT DAY,
00:20:51AND CHRISSY, THE GANDER AIRPORT HAS JUST A FASC
00:20:55FASCINATING HISTORY, BUT, OF COURSE, IT'S MOST WELL KNOWN
00:20:58FOR ITS 9-11 RESPONSE. CAN YOU TELL US MORE, WHAT
00:21:02HAPPENED THERE ON THAT DAY?
00:21:04>> I SURE CAN, CAROLYN. AND WE'RE ACTUALLY IN A
00:21:07PLACE HERE IN GANDER
00:21:09INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT THAT TELLS THE STOREY OF WHAT
00:21:13HAPPENED, INCLUDING, AS DAVID JUST MENTIONED, DON
00:21:16O'BRIEN, WHO IS QUOTED RIGHT HERE, BY THE WAY.
00:21:19PICTURE THIS. SO 18 MINUTES AFTER THAT
00:21:22SECOND PLANE WENT INTO THE TWIN TOWERS THAT DAY, CANADA
00:21:26TAKES THE WHEEL. ORDERS COME DOWN FROM OT
00:21:29OTTAWA, AS DON MENTIONS.
00:21:30OPERATION YELLOW RIBBON PUT INTO EFFECT.
00:21:34WITH AMERICAN AIRSPACE SHUT
00:21:36DOWN, WE CAN'T OVEREMPHASIZE FACT A CANADA TAKES CONTROL
00:21:39HERE, SHOULDERS THE RISK AND
00:21:42MAKES THE MOVE TO GET ALL OF
00:21:44THAT PASSENGER AIR TRAFFIC OUT OF THE AIR, POTENTIAL
00:21:48THREAT. THOSE WERE WEAPONIZED IN THESE ATTACKS AND ON THE GROUND.
00:21:52CANADA GOING TO TAKE THIS ON, MOVE THEM AWAY FROM AMERICAN TARGETS.
00:21:55DOING THAT IN A PLACE LIKE
00:21:57THIS, CAROLYN, DAVID, NOT AN EASY TASK.
00:22:01THAT DAY, HAD THIS DAY BEGAN, THERE WERE EIGHT
00:22:05FLIGHTS, OK, ON THEIR PLAN, IN THEIR ARRIVALS PLAN.
00:22:09THE DAY ENDED WITH 38, BUT THAT'S A SMALL FRACTION OF
00:22:12FLIGHT TRAFFIC THEY ACTUALLY MANAGED THAT DAY.
00:22:15JUST COME OVER HERE. AS PART OF THIS EXHIBIT,
00:22:18THIS IS A SCREEN OF WHAT AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS HERE AT
00:22:22GANDER WERE FACING THAT DAY. IMAGINE THE MATH.
00:22:25EVERY ONE OF THOSE PLANES. THAT'S A LOT OF MATH FOR ANY
00:22:29AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER, RIGHT? WE'RE TALKING ALTITUDE
00:22:32SPEED, DIRECTION, FLIGHT, FUEL LOAD, EVERYTHING YOU'VE
00:22:36GOT DOWN ON GROUND THAT DAY.
00:22:39A LOT TO MANAGE.
00:22:41WHAT YOU OPEN UP YOUR EMERGENCY COMMAND CENTRE AND
00:22:45YOU BUST OUT YOUR STICKIES. THEY DIDN'T HAVE A TEMPLATE FOR.
00:22:49THEY LITERALLY GOT THEIR STICKY PADS OUT. CHECK THIS OUT.
00:22:53THIS IS A COPY OF THE REAL STICKIES WHERE THEY HAD TO
00:22:57HAND WRITE EVERY ONE OF THESE FLIGHTS THAT WERE
00:23:00GROUNDED HERE IN GANDER THAT DAY.
00:23:03NOW A LITTLE WHILE AGO, HAD WERE SO MANY TOURISTS THAT
00:23:07WERE HERE, ESPECIALLY FOR THIS 25th ANNIVERSARY, MANY
00:23:10OF THEM COMING AROUND ST STICKIES, PICKING OUT.
00:23:13OH, THERE'S MY FLIGHT. WE WERE NUMBER FOUR AIR
00:23:16FRANCE, AND ALL THE WAY DOWN
00:23:18TO PILOT THAT LAND AT THE
00:23:21LAST PLANE HERE -- LANDED THE LAST PLANE.
00:23:24THEY WERE ALL BACK. THEY WERE WEARING PINS.
00:23:27MANY OF THEM WERE, OF COURSE, HERE BECAUSE OF THE RELATIONSHIPS WERE FORGED
00:23:31THAT DAY. I HAVE TO BRING US RIGHT
00:23:33OVER TO THIS ELEPHANT IN THE
00:23:36ROOM ACKNOWLEDGE THIS. THERE WERE PEOPLE STANDING
00:23:39AROUND BIG CHUNK OF IRON, ONE OF TWO PIECES OF THE
00:23:43WORLD TRADE CENTRE GIFTED
00:23:45FROM OUR AMERICAN FRIENDS TO OUR CANADIAN FRIENDS, TO BE
00:23:48MEMORIALIZED HERE.
00:23:53AS A STARK REMINDER OF THE TERROR AND THE LIVES LOST THAT DAY.
00:23:56IN A PLACE THAT SO MANY OF
00:23:59THEM FOUND COMFORT AND WARMTH RIGHT HERE.
00:24:02AND, OF COURSE, STANDS AS A SYMBOL.
00:24:05WITH SOME OF THOSE PASSENGERS AROUND TODAY, WE
00:24:08SAW FLAGS, HALF AMERICAN,
00:24:10HALF CANADIAN. WE HEARD AMERICANS SPEAKING
00:24:13APOLOGETICALLY TO CANADIANS.
00:24:16THE RELATIONSHIPS WERE DEEP AND, OF COURSE, A LOT OF
00:24:20LAYERS OF COMPLEXITY, GIVEN
00:24:23THAT STRUCTURAL STEEL,
00:24:26ANOTHER MATERIAL THAT'S AT CENTRE OF TRADE DISPUTE AND
00:24:30RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CANADIANS AND AMERICANS RIGHT NOW.
00:24:33SO IT WAS INTERESTING TO
00:24:34HEAR SOME OF THOSE
00:24:37CONVERSATIONS TODAY.
00:24:40>> SOME FASCINATING ARTIFACTS THERE, CHRISSY,
00:24:43AND ALL OF THAT RIGHT THERE GANDER AIRPORT FOR PEOPLE TO
00:24:47SEE. REALLY PAINTS A PICTURE. LAST NIGHT THERE WAS AN
00:24:50EVENT THAT WAS HELD AT THE AIRPORT JUST BEHIND YOU
00:24:54THERE. WAS THE PLANE PEOPLE WERE
00:24:58TELLING MANY OF THEIR STORIES, SOME STORIES THAT PERHAPS HAVEN'T BEEN HEARD
00:25:01BEFORE.
00:25:02CAN YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT THAT?
00:25:06>> Reporter: YEAH, UNTOLD STORIES. WAS A GREAT CROWD.
00:25:10THERE HAD TO BE A COUPLE OF HUNDRED PEOPLE HERE, LOTS OF MINGLING GOING ON.
00:25:14A LOT OF DIGNITARIES, CAROLYN.
00:25:16SOME OF THE STORIES THAT YOU SEE, INSIDER DETAILS THAT WE
00:25:20WERE EAGER HERE TODAY. THE NATIONAL SECURITY DETAIL KIND OF STOPPED.
00:25:24I'LL TELL YOU WHO WAS HERE. ONE OF THE PEOPLE WAS TRANSPORTATION MINISTER OF
00:25:27THE DAY, WHO TALKED ABOUT BEING AT AN EVENT HIMSELF,
00:25:31GETTING HANDED A NOTE,
00:25:33PASSED QUIETLY A NOTE AND SAID, WRAP IT UP.
00:25:37JUST TAKE A LISTEN THIS. >> SUDDENLY, AN OFFICIAL
00:25:41CAME TO THE PODIUM.
00:25:43LIKE IMMEDIATELY, EXITED
00:25:45PODIUM, AND MY ASSISTANT
00:25:49DEPUTY MINISTER SAID LOOK, THERE'S A SMALL PLANE THAT'S CRASHED INTO ONE OF THE
00:25:53WORLD TRADE CENTRE TOWERS. >> THEY WANTED US TO LAND IMMEDIATELY.
00:25:57SO WE WERE GIVEN THE TWO PLACES THAT GUY MENTION.
00:26:00I THINK IT WAS STEPHENSVILLE AND GANDER.
00:26:03GANDER WAS A BETTER PLACE, SO THAT'S WHERE I LANDED.
00:26:06>> THIS IS WHAT I REALLY LEARN WHAT A NEWFOUNDLANDER
00:26:09IS LIKE.
00:26:10THEIR RESPONSE WAS BASI
00:26:15BASICALLY, UNDERSTOOD. COME ON IN. WE'LL FIGURE OUT WHEN YOU
00:26:19GET HERE.
00:26:19>> SO I GAVE HER THE PHONE,
00:26:23AND SHE SAID INTO PHONE, PLEASE TELL ME JAMES IS
00:26:27ALIVE, AND I WAS LIKE, WHAT
00:26:31IS HAPPENING IN WORLD?
00:26:35>> Reporter: JUST SOME OF THE STORIES WE HEAR HERE AT GANDER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
00:26:38LAST NIGHT, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WERE TELLING
00:26:42THEM, OF COURSE, ARE ALL RIGHT NOW ON THEIR WAY TO BE
00:26:45A PART OF THIS 25th
00:26:46ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY,
00:26:52CAROLYN. >> THANKS SO MUCH, CHRISSY. CHRISSY HOLMES AT GANDER
00:26:56INTERNATIONAL AIR FOR. >> David: WE'RE ABOUT FOUR MINUTES HOW IT UNTIL THE
00:26:59START OF THE CEREMONY -- NOW
00:27:03UNTIL START OF THE CEREMONY, THE SIGNATURE CEREMONY IN
00:27:06GANDER, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR. MANY OF THE PASSENGERS STRANDED IN NEWFOUNDLAND
00:27:10FOLLOWING THE TERROR ATTACKS OF 9-11.
00:27:14THEY ARE BACK, SOME FOR THE FIRST TIME IT 25 YEARS.
00:27:17LAURA HOWELLS WITH ONE OF THEM RIGHT NOW. LAURA, I'LL TURN TO YOU.
00:27:21>> Reporter: YES, I'M HERE WITH CRAIG FISHER.
00:27:24HE WAS HERE 25 YEARS AGO AND
00:27:26IS NOW BACK FOR THE VERY
00:27:30FIRST TIME.
00:27:32CRAIG -- [INDISCERNIBLE]
00:27:35>> David: UNFORTUNATELY, WE
00:27:38JUST LOST LAURA OUTSIDE.
00:27:41YOU KNOW CAROLYN, THE NUMBER
00:27:43OF THESE PLANE PEOPLE WE ARE
00:27:45ENCOUNTERING, PEOPLE WHO STAYED IN SPARE ROOMS.
00:27:48WE WERE TALKING ABOUT DURHAM, THE FORMER MAYOR OF
00:27:51APPLETON, ABOUT 15 MINUTES OUTSIDE OF GANDER.
00:27:54HE WAS TELLING ME. YOU WERE TALKING TO HIM AS WELL.
00:27:58HE HAD SOMEONE FROM NEW JERSEY WHOSE VIEW LOOKED OUT ON TIN TOWERS.
00:28:02TO WHEN THEY GOT -- WIN IT
00:28:05TOWERS.
00:28:06SO WHEN -- TWIN TOWERS.
00:28:09>> I WAS SPEAKING SO MANY PEOPLE OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS.
00:28:12LAURA WAS TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T BEEN HERE FOR
00:28:16THAT DAYS. THEY WERE HERE 25 YEARS AGO AND HAVEN'T BEEN BACK SINCE.
00:28:20SPEAKING TO A LADY HERE THE OTHER DAY, AND SHE BROUGHT HER SON.
00:28:23IT'S SO INTERESTING TO SEE THE PASSAGE OF TIME RIGHT
00:28:26THERE THIS HER SON, WHO WAS YOUNG AT THE TIME, OF
00:28:30COURSE, AND NOW HE'S ALL GROWN UP. >> David: A THIRD OF
00:28:34AMERICANS WERE NOT ALIVE ON 9-11.
00:28:37NOT QUITE A THIRD, ABOUT 3 30%.
00:28:41BUT THAT REAL TELLS YOU SOMETHING.
00:28:43I MET A GUY WHO IS FOUR
00:28:45YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS IN
00:28:48GANDER ON 9-11. ONE OF THE PLANE PEOPLE
00:28:51TODAY 29 BACK HERE AGAIN.
00:28:53WE HAVE LAURA HOWELLS HERE ONE MORE TIME.
00:28:56LAURA, BRING US BACK TO CRAIG.
00:28:59>> Reporter: YEAH. CRAIG, WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE BACK HERE FOR FIRST TIME IN
00:29:0325 YEARS? YOU'RE SAYING IT'S A BIT EMOTIONAL? >> YEAH, IT'S KIND OF
00:29:07SURREAL ACTUALLY. I THOUGHT IN THE LAST 25
00:29:10YEARS, I PROCESSED A LOT OF WHAT WE WENT THROUGH.
00:29:13BUT STILL, I KEEP GETTING SURPRISED BY SOME OF THESE
00:29:16EMOTIONS. I SAW OUR FLIGHT NUMBER ON
00:29:19THE FLIGHT STRIPS, THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL MUSEUM AND
00:29:23LOST IT IT -- LOST IT A BIT
00:29:26FOR THE FIRST TIME IN QUITE A FEW YEARS. >> Reporter: IT'S SURREAL,
00:29:29YOU SAID. YOU'VE REALLY KEPT IN TOUCH. YOU STARTED A WEBSITE AFTER
00:29:33THAT EXPERIENCE TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH EVERYONE ON THE PLANE.
00:29:37>> I HAD MY LAPTOP WITH ME,
00:29:40BUT IT WAS IN THE PLANE STILL.
00:29:42SO BATTERIES POWERED TO GET
00:29:45THE WEBSITE GOING. [INDISCERNIBLE]
00:29:48THE SECRETARY COMES ONLINE
00:29:50AND I GOT UA-29 AS A DOMAIN
00:29:53NAME SO WE COULD PRINT OUT THE DOMAIN NAME FOR THE
00:29:56WEBSITE WE PUT IN PLACE. WITHIN HALF A DAY OF BEING HOME, PEOPLE WERE ALREADY
00:30:00CONNECTING FROM CHICAGO AND WHEREVER THEY ARE STARBURST
00:30:03THEED TO FROM CHICAGO TO WHERE WE LANDED.
00:30:06THERE'S FIVE OF US HERE TODAY, BUT ANOTHER 20 OR SO
00:30:09THAT WANTED TO BE HERE BUT JUST COULDN'T.
00:30:11WE'RE ALSO HAD TOUCH INTO WHAT WAS IT LIKE RECONNECTING WITH THESE
00:30:15PEOPLE ALL THIS TIME LATER?
00:30:18>> IT'S KIND OF LIKE A WEEK AGO AND A LIFETIME IN THE
00:30:21SAME BREATH. WE WALKED INTO ONE OF THE
00:30:24PLACES GANDER WHERE WE STAYED, AND I SAW DAVID
00:30:28PRITCHARD, WHO IS ONE OF THE GUYS HERE ON THE GROUND WHO
00:30:30IS THE LOCAL FIXER, AND WAS
00:30:32LIKE I SAW HIM LAST TUESDAY.
00:30:35WAS INCREDIBLE JUST TO BE BACK.
00:30:38>> Reporter: INCREDIBLE BOND FORMED. CRAIG FISHER, ONE OF THE
00:30:42PASSENGERS, ONE OF PLANE
00:30:42PEOPLE WHO LANDED HERE 25 YEARS AGO.
00:30:46>> David: THAT'S LAURA HOWELLS OUTSIDE THE ARENA
00:30:49THAT CAROLYN AND I ARE INSIDE. SO A QUICK NOTE.
00:30:53WE ARE VERY SHORTLY GOING TO SEE CEREMONY BEGIN.
00:30:56ONCE AGAIN, "POWER AND POLITICS" HOST DAVID
00:30:59COCHRANE OF CBC NEWS. HE'S THE MC OF THIS TOTAL EVENT.
00:31:03HE CALLS IT THE HONOUR OF A
00:31:07LIFETIME. >> ALSO A NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADORIAN.
00:31:11>> David: YOU'RE GOING TO
00:31:12HEAR SOME SOMBRE MOMENTS
00:31:19HERE BECAUSE REMEMBRANCE IS FUN.
00:31:23HAS A LOT OF EMOTION.
00:31:24IT'S A FAMILY AND IT'S
00:31:30EVERYTHING. >> David: THEY ARE A BIG DEAL. IT'S GOING TO BE VERY
00:31:34INTERESTING TO HEAR SOME OF
00:31:35THE REMARKS, ESPECIALLY FROM
00:31:40U.S. AMBASSADOR WHAT KIND OF
00:31:41A TONE IS STRUCK THERE.
00:31:45YEAH. >> David: JUST TO BE FRANK, WE'RE GOING TO BE WATCHING
00:31:48SEE THERE'S ANY REACTION TO
00:31:50THIS ROOM TO U.S. AMBASSADOR
00:31:52PETE HOEKSTRA SPEAKING.
00:31:54>> THERE IS TALK ON SOCIAL
00:31:57MEDIA ABOUT ACTION BEING TAKEN. NOTHING I'M AWARE OF.
00:32:00>> David: HE SPOKE IN AP
00:32:05APPLETON, 15 MINUTES OUTSIDE GANDER. IT WAS A MUCH SMALLER EVENT
00:32:09RIGHT DOWN THE RIVER. A LARGE DEAL PIECE OF THE
00:32:12TWIN TOWERS THERE. PETE HOEKSTRA SPEAKING, THE U.S. AMBASSADOR.
00:32:16HE WILL AGAIN HERE. HE'S MADE THE CHOICE TO COME
00:32:18HERE, KNOWING ALL OF THIS.
00:32:20SO I WILL RECOGNIZE THAT, AS
00:32:23YOU SEE THIS ROOM.
00:32:253,000 POEM.
00:32:31WE'RE NORMALLY PLAYING HOCKEY TODAY THAT ICE COVERED UP.
00:32:34I WILL SAY IT'S GONE FROM BEING CHILLY IN THIS ROOM TO
00:32:38NOT BEING CHILLY AT ALL. IT'S LOVELY TO SEE.
00:32:40CAROLYN AND I ARE BOTH LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS, YOU
00:32:44WE WERE TALKING EARLIER
00:32:47ABOUT HOW YOUNG SOME OF THE
00:32:50PEOPLE WERE WHO LANDED HERE,
00:32:52AND HOW MARK QUINN WAS SAYING TO US, THERE'S A
00:32:55GENERATION THAT MEMBERS PERHAPS WHEN J.F.K. WAS KILLED.
00:32:59THERE'S A GENERATION MEMBERS
00:33:01WHEN 9-11 WERE. THERE'S A GENERATION FOR
00:33:05THEM THAT COVID IS 9-11.
00:33:08I REMEMBER MY KIDS, THEY WERE NOT BORN AT THAT TIME.
00:33:11THEY KNOW OF IT IT, BUT THEY
00:33:13DON'T HAVE THE SAME KIND OF ATTACHMENT.
00:33:17>> ETCHED IN OUR MEMORY THAT DAY, SEEING TOWERS COME DOWN, SEEING PLANES.
00:33:21THERE'S A WHOLE GENERATION OF PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T HAVE
00:33:23THAT EXPERIENCE AND ARE NOW LEARNING, IT, YEAH.
00:33:27>> I THINK COME FROM AWAY THE MUSICAL THAT REALLY
00:33:30TELLS THE TALE OF GANDER, OF
00:33:32THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES, OF THE PEOPLE.
00:33:36I WAS INTERVIEWING BEULAH, A
00:33:40CHARACTER, THE SHELLY, WHO
00:33:45PLAYS BEULAH ON STAGE IN
00:33:49GANDER THE CURRENT PRODUCTION. I THINK THE MUSICAL HAS
00:33:52OPENED THE DOOR TO ANOTHER GENERATION TO TELL THE TALE
00:33:55OF WHAT HAPPENED IN 9-11 THROUGH A LENS THAT
00:33:58RECOGNIZES THE COMPLEXITY
00:34:01THAT YOU GET THE HORROR. YOU GET THE SHOCK, BUT YOU
00:34:05GET THE JOY. YOU GET THE COMFORT.
00:34:08YOU GET THE KINDNESS. THAT'S THE STOREY OF GANDER,
00:34:11AND IT'S JUST WONDERFUL TO
00:34:13SEE THAT BEING RECOGNIZED. >> I'VE BEEN SPEAKING WITH A
00:34:17LOT OF PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN MARK QUINN AND I WITH ARE AT THE SCHOOL THE OTHER
00:34:20DAY, TALKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF PASSING THESE STORIES ONTO THOSE YOUNGER
00:34:24PEOPLE AND HOW DO YOU DO IT?
00:34:26HOW DO YOU KEEP THEM ENG ENGAGED?
00:34:29I BELIEVE THE CEREMONY JUST ABOUT TO START. >> HERE WE ARE.
00:34:33THIS IS DAVID COCHRANE
00:34:36BEGINNING THE CEREMONY.
00:34:40>> David: WE RECOGNIZE ALL FIRST PEOPLES WHO WERE HERE
00:34:42BEFORE US, THOSE WHO LIVE WITH US NOW, AND THE SEVEN
00:34:45GENERATIONS TO COME.
00:34:50SINCE TIME AND MEMORIAL, WE STRIVE TO BE RESPONSIBLE
00:34:53STEWARDS OF THE LAND AND TO RESPECT THE CULTURES,
00:34:56CEREMONIES, AND TRADITIONS OF ALL WHO CALL IT HOME.
00:34:59AS WE OPEN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS TO THE PAST, WE COMMIT
00:35:03OURSELVES TO WORKING IN A SPIRIT OF TRUTH AND
00:35:06RECONCILIATION TO MAKE A
00:35:08BETTER FUTURE FOR ALL.
00:35:13GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS DAVID COCHRANE.
00:35:16I'M HOST OF CBC'S "POWER AND POLITICS" WHICH MEANS I LIVE
00:35:20AND WORK IN OTTAWA, BUT NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
00:35:22WILL ALWAYS BE MY HOME.
00:35:25AND IT IS -- IT IS MY HONOUR
00:35:38AND PRIVILEGE TO HAVE BEEN
00:35:40ASKED TO BE YOUR MC TODAY.
00:35:43FOR EVERYONE WATCHING HERE AT THE DEAL COMMUNITY CENTRE TO CAME FROM NEAR, AND THOSE
00:35:47WHO HAVE COME FROM AWAY, WELCOME.
00:35:49I THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.
00:35:5225 YEARS AGO ON A CLEAR
00:35:55SEPTEMBER MORNING, THE WORLD CHANGED.
00:35:58IN THE HOURS AND DAYS THAT
00:35:59FOLLOWED SEPTEMBER 11, 2001,
00:36:03WE WITNESSED UNIMAGINABLE
00:36:05TRAGEDY, PROFOUND LOSS AND UNCERTAINTY.
00:36:08BUT IN ALL THAT DARKNESS, WE
00:36:11ALSO WITNESSED SOMETHING
00:36:12ELSE, THE VERY BEST OF HUMANITY.
00:36:16HERE IN GANDER AND
00:36:19COMMUNITIES SURROUNDING NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
00:36:21AND RIGHT ACROSS CANADA, THOUSANDS OF STRANGERS
00:36:24ARRIVED UNEXPECTEDLY. THEY CAME FROM ALL CORNERS
00:36:27OF THE WORLD, CARRYING FEAR,
00:36:30UNCERTAINTY, AND FULL OF
00:36:33UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, AND THEY WERE WELCOMED.
00:36:36PEOPLE OPENED THEIR DOORS TO
00:36:37THEM, SET THEIR TABLES FOR
00:36:41THEM. HOMES, CHURCHS -- CHURCHES,
00:36:44SCHOOLS, COMMUNITY CENTRES
00:36:46ALL BECAME PLACES OF COMFORT FOR STRANGERS FROM A FAR,
00:36:50AND THOSE STRANGERS BECAME FRIENDS. IN A TIME WHEN THE WORLD
00:36:53SEEMED DIVIDED BY TRAGEDY
00:36:55AND FEAR, KINDNESS BROUGHT
00:36:58PEOPLE TOGETHER, AND HERE IN GANDER, WE KNOW THAT STOREY
00:37:02WELL. IT'S A STOREY OF COMPASSION
00:37:04WITHOUT HESITATION, OF GENEROSITY WITHOUT
00:37:08EXPECTATION, OF FRIENDSHIP FORMED BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO
00:37:12ONLY HOURS BEFORE NEVER MET.
00:37:14IT'S A STOREY THAT REMINDS
00:37:17US THAT EVEN IN THE DARKEST
00:37:20MOMENTS, THERE CAN BE LIGHT.
00:37:23AND OVER NEXT TWO HOURS, THROUGH WORDS AND MUSIC,
00:37:26REFLECTION AND REMEMBRANCE, WE WILL LOOK BACK ON THAT
00:37:30DAY AND THE DAYS THAT FO FOLLOW.
00:37:33WE WILL HEAR STORIES THAT HAVE STAYED WITH US FOR 25 YEARS.
00:37:36REMEMBER THOSE WE LOST, HONOUR THOSE WHO ANSWERED
00:37:39THE CALL, AND CELEBRATE THE
00:37:42FRIENDSHIPS AND CONNECTIONS
00:37:44THAT CONTINUE TO DAY.
00:37:47TODAY WE WELCOME HOME THOSE WHO FOUND THEMSELVES HERE
00:37:49UNEXPECTEDLY IN SEPTEMBER OF
00:37:512001 AND WE THANK THEM FOR
00:37:53RETURNING A QUARTER OF A CENTURY LATER TO SHARE IN
00:37:57THIS IMPORTANT ANNIVERSARY.
00:37:59TO OUR SPECIAL GUESTS, TO OUR DIGNITARIES, PERFORMERS,
00:38:03PARTICIPANTS, AND ESPECIALLY VOLUNTEERS.
00:38:06AND EVERYONE JOINING US HERE IN PERSON OR THANK YOU
00:38:10BROADCASTS, THANK YOU FOR
00:38:12BEING PART OF THIS MOMENT.
00:38:15SO AS WE BEGIN, LET'S ACHE
00:38:17THIS TIME TOGETHER REMEMBER
00:38:19THOSE WE'VE LOST, TO REMEMBER THOSE WHO ARE
00:38:22SERVED AND HELPED AND COMMEMORATE A LEGACY OF
00:38:25COMPASSION AND HUMANITY THAT CONTINUES TO INSPIRE.
00:38:28WHILE SEPTEMBER 11th, 20 011
00:38:32WILL FOREVER BE REMEMBERED AS A DAY OF UNIMAGINABLE
00:38:34TRAGEDY -- 2001 -- IT ALSO
00:38:38REVEALED SOMETHING POWERFUL, WHO WE ARE. SHOWED US WHEN THE WORLD
00:38:42FEELS BROKEN, WE CAN STILL CHOOSE KINDNESS.
00:38:45WHEN FEAR SURROUNDS US, WE CAN STILL OPEN OUR DOORS.
00:38:49AND WHEN STRANGERS FIND THEMSELVES FAR FROM HOME, WE
00:38:52CAN REMIND THEM THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE.
00:38:56TODAY, WE REMEMBER. TODAY WE HONOUR.
00:38:58TODAY, WE COMMEMORATE, AND TODAY, WE COLLECTIVELY
00:39:01ENSURE THAT LESSONS OF COMPASSION, FRIENDSHIP AND
00:39:05HUMID BORNE ARE THOSE DIFFICULT DAYS WILL NEVER BE
00:39:08FORGOTTEN. WELCOME TO THE TOWN OF GANDER'S 25th ANNIVERSARY
00:39:12COMMEMORATION SERVICE
00:39:14MARKING SEPTEMBER 11th, 2
00:39:182001. AT THIS TIME, IF YOU ARE ABLE, PLEASE STAND FOR MARCH
00:39:21ON THE FLAGS LED BY SERGEANT TREVOR PILGRIM, MASTER
00:39:25CORPORAL JONATHAN PATEY, AND
00:39:30MASTER CORPORAL JEFF MacDONALD, ACCOMPANIED BY
00:39:32THE PARADE OF FIRST RES RESPONDERS, LED BY
00:39:36PROCESSION COMMANDER CAPTAIN
00:39:38DESJARDINS AND ACCOMPANIED BY ROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND
00:39:41REGIMENT BAND.
00:41:03[♪♪]
00:41:15>> THANK YOU TO THE ROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND REGIMENT BAND, OUR FLAG PART YOU AND FIRST
00:41:19RESPONDERS FOR OPENING IT SERVICE. THEIR PRESENCE HERE TODAY A
00:41:23REMINDER OF THE COURAGE, SERVICE, AND SELFLESSNESS
00:41:26SHOWN NOT ONLY ON SEPTEMBER
00:41:2711th, 2001, BUT ALL THE DAYS
00:41:31THAT FOLLOWED. IT'S NOW MY PLEASURE TO WELCOME TO THE STAGE THREE
00:41:35WOMEN WHOSE VOICES HAVE BECOME PART OF THE SO SOUNDTRACK OF NEWFOUNDLAND
00:41:38AND LABRADOR, THE ANNA SISTERS.
00:41:40PLEASE REMAIN STANDING, IF YOU ARE ABLE, AS THEY
00:41:44PERFORM THE NATIONAL ANTHEMS
00:41:46OF CANADA AND THE UNITED
00:41:48STATES. [♪♪]
00:41:54♪
00:41:55O, CANADA, OUR HOME AND
00:41:58NATIVE LAND
00:42:02TRUE PATRIOT LOVE IN ALL
00:42:12THY COMMAND.
00:42:21[SINGING IN FRENCH]
00:42:27[♪♪]
00:42:32♪
00:42:33GOD, KEEP OUR LAND,
00:42:38GLORIOUS AND FREE
00:42:44O, CANADA, WE STAND ON
00:42:49GUARD FOR THEE O, CANADA, WE
00:42:59STAND ON GUARD FOR THEE ♪
00:43:02STAND ON GUARD FOR THEE ♪ [APPLAUSE]
00:43:17♪
00:43:27O, SAY CAN YOU SEE
00:43:30BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT
00:43:34WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL
00:43:39AT THE TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING
00:43:44WHOSE BROAD STRIPES AND
00:43:47BRIGHT STARS
00:43:48THROUGH THE PERILOUS FIGHT
00:43:56O'ER THE RAMPARTS WE
00:43:59WATCHED WERE SO GALLANTLY
00:44:02STREAMING ♪
00:44:04AND THE ROCKETS' RED GLARE,
00:44:09THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR
00:44:15GAVE PROOF THROUGH THE
00:44:18NIGHT THAT OUR FLAG WAS
00:44:20STILL THERE ♪
00:44:25O, SAY DOES THAT S
00:44:29STAR-SPANGLED BANNER YET
00:44:35WAVE ♪
00:44:39O'ER THE LAND THE FREE AND
00:44:46THE HOME OF THE BRAVE ♪
00:44:57[APPLAUSE]
00:44:59[APPLAUSE]
00:45:10>> David: TREMENDOUS.
00:45:12THANK YOU TO THE EHNIS SISTERS FOR THOSE BEAUTIFUL
00:45:16RENDITIONS. AS YOU TAKE YOUR SEATS,
00:45:19COULD WE PLEASE HAVE A ROUND
00:45:20OF APPLAUSE FOR FIRST
00:45:24RESPONDERS.
00:45:42>> David: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:45:42THE DAYS AFTER 9-11 --
00:45:47[SHOUTING]
00:45:54[APPLAUSE]
00:46:15[APPLAUSE]
00:46:37SALUTE. MARCH.
00:46:39[APPLAUSE]
00:46:47[APPLAUSE] [APPL
00:46:53>> David: THE DAYS AFTER 9-11 WERE SOME OF THE MOST
00:46:57EXTRAORDINARY MOMENTS IN THE
00:46:58HISTORY OF GANDER, AND AT
00:47:01THAT TIME, PERCY FAREWELL WAS DEPUTY MAYOR OF THIS
00:47:05TOWN. WELL, 25 YEARS LATER, HE'S
00:47:07STILL EVERYTHING HIS PEOPLE NOW AS MAYOR.
00:47:11PLEASE WELCOME MAYOR PERCY
00:47:14FAREWELL.
00:47:16[APPLAUSE]
00:47:22>> THANK YOU, DAVID. WELCOME, EVERYBODY, AND
00:47:24WELCOME TO MY DIGNIFIED
00:47:28FELLOW -- [INDISCERNIBLE] WHO UNFORTUNATELY, I HAD MY
00:47:31BACK TO AT THE MOMENT. THEY WILL ALL BE MORE FORMALLY INTRODUCED IN DUE
00:47:35COURSE. WE'RE HONOURED TO HAVE THEM ALL HERE, SHARING THESE
00:47:38MOMENTS REFLECTION AND REMEMBRANCE WITH US.
00:47:41IT'S IMPORTANT TO US AND IT'S IMPORTANT THOSE WE'RE
00:47:44HERE TO SHOW SUPPORT FOR. AND AN EXTRA SPECIAL WELCOME
00:47:47HOME TO THE STRANDED
00:47:49PASSENGERS AND CREWS FROM
00:47:54125001 -- FROM 2001, WHO
00:47:59HAVE MADE THE JOURNEY FOR US TO ALL BE TOGETHER, THIS TIME WITH THE BENEFIT OF
00:48:03LUGGAGE. [APPLAUSE]
00:48:06TIME, THEY HAVE THEIR LUGGAGE, TO SHOULD BE MUCH
00:48:09EASIER. [LAUGHING] >> AND TO ALL WHO JOINED US
00:48:13HERE IN GANDER AND AROUND THE WORLD BY VARIOUS
00:48:17BROADCAST PLATFORMS, THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME.
00:48:20IT'S IMPORTANT TO THOSE OF US HERE TODAY AND AROUND THE
00:48:24WORLD TO UNIFY, TO CONTINUE TO REMEMBER, TO CONTINUE TO
00:48:28SHOW WE CARE, TO CONTINUE TO REMIND PEOPLE DIRECTLY
00:48:31AFFECTED, THEY ARE NOT AL
00:48:35ALONE. THIS IS A DAY OF SOLEMN REFLECTION AND REMEMBRANCE
00:48:38OF THOSE NEARLY 3,000
00:48:41INNOCENT SOULS WHO DIED NEW
00:48:43YORK AND IN SHANKSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, AND HAD
00:48:47WASHINGTON, D.C. AND THOSE WHO HAVE DIED ARE CONTINUED TO SUFFER IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING.
00:48:50IT'S A DAY OF CONSOLATION AND A MESSAGE OF LOVE AND
00:48:53SUPPORT THOSE WHO HAVE LOST LOVED ONES. IT'S A DAY OF TRIBUTE TO
00:48:57THOSE HEROES, WHO RESPONDED ON THAT DAY, AND WHO
00:49:00CONTINUE TO RESPOND AROUND THE WORLD, SACRIFICING THEIR
00:49:03OWN SAFETY TO PROTECT OT OTHERS.
00:49:05IN SOME CASES, PAYING THE SUPREME SACRIFICES THEMSELVES.
00:49:09FOR OTHERS CARRYING THE SCARS OF THOSE EVENTS WITH
00:49:11THEM FOR REST OF THEIR
00:49:13LIVES, AND FOR US HERE IN
00:49:17AND GOOD AND ACROSS CANADA,
00:49:19WE REFLECT ON A TWIST OF
00:49:22FATE THAT LEFT US INFINITELY
00:49:26PROFOUNDLY TO DAY, A DAY OF GRATITUDE THAT IN THAT DARK
00:49:29TIME, WE WERE BLESSED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO CARE FOR
00:49:32REAL PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THESE EVENTS, WHO LITERALLY
00:49:35DROPPED OUT OF THE SKY HERE AND AT OTHER CANADIAN
00:49:39AIRPORTS IN A DISTRESSED
00:49:41STATE, AND IN NEED OF MOST FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN
00:49:45REQUIREMENTS -- FOOD, SHELTER, CLOTHING, AND MOST
00:49:48IMPORTANTLY AS, CONSOLATION,
00:49:51REASSURANCE AND LOVE.
00:49:56THIS AND GOOD OTHER, 2001, WE WITNESSED A TIME WITH
00:50:01HUMANITY WAS THROWN INTO A PILE A TIME OF GREAT
00:50:04DISTRESS AND TURMOIL, AND WE WERE FORCED TO DISSTILL OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS
00:50:08DOWN TO WHAT REALLY MATTERS. SUPPORTING FOR, CARING FOR,
00:50:11LOVING EACH OTHER, AND AND
00:50:18IN THESE MOMENTS BASED ON
00:50:24NATIONAL AND GENDER ORIENTATION, SOCIAL STATUS
00:50:28OR ANYTHING ELSE. JUST HUMANS INSTINCTIVELY
00:50:30DOING WHAT WE WERE ALL PUT ON THE EARTH TO DO, LOVING
00:50:34OUR NEIGHBOURS AS OURSELVES.
00:50:46WE HOSTED PEOPLE FROM 95 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
00:50:49THEY WERE LIKELY MANY TIMES WITH BELIEFS AND VIEWS THAT
00:50:52DIFFER FROM OURS, PEOPLE
00:50:55FROM COUNTRIES WE MAY SEE AT SOME LEVEL AS ADVERSARIES.
00:50:58NONE OF THAT MATTERED.
00:51:00HUMANITY RISES ABOVE THESE DISAGREEMENTS AND
00:51:04DIFFERENCES. SO TODAY IS ALSO A DAY OF REFLECTION ON OURSELVES, ON
00:51:08HOW WE LIVE OUR LIVES, AND HOW WE TREAT OUR FELLOW
00:51:12HUMANS, AND HOW WE COMBAT THE CHANGES AND CHALLENGES
00:51:15OF A FLAWED WORLD.
00:51:20THIS A DAY OF
00:51:21ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT D
00:51:24DARKNESS OVERCOME BY LIGHT ANT HATRED BY LOVE.
00:51:27IT'S A REMINDER TO SHARE THAT LIGHT AND THAT LOVE.
00:51:30AS WE CONTEMPLATE THE STATE OF AFFAIRS AROUND THE WORLD, WHETHER IT'S THE
00:51:33CIRCUMSTANCES OF PEOPLE IN NEPAL, OR THOSE LIVING IN
00:51:36AREAS OF CONFLICT AROUND THE WORLD WHERE THE PLIGHT OF THE DISADVANTAGED LIVING
00:51:40AMONG US, WE ARE REMINDED THAT THE NEED FOR PUT VALUES
00:51:44IN ACTION CRITICAL AND CONSTANT.
00:51:48HERE IN GANDER, WE DEEPLY REGRET THE CIRCUMSTANCES
00:51:51UNDER WHICH FATE HAS CON CONNECTED OUR COMMUNITY WITH
00:51:55OUR NEIGHBOURS AROUND WORLD, AND IN PARTICULAR, THE UNITED STATES, ON THIS
00:51:58OCCASION AND OTHERS, SUCH AS
00:52:00THE AIR TRAGEDY OF 1985,
00:52:03WHERE 256 U.S. CITIZENS PERISHED LITERALLY ON OUR
00:52:06DOORSTEP.
00:52:11THESE CIRCUMSTANCES WE ALL WISH NOT OCCURRED, BUT WE
00:52:14CHERISH BONDS FORMED IN THE MIDST OF TRAGEDY AND BRINGING A CLOSE
00:52:18RELATIONSHIP EVEN CLOSER, AND WE HOPE WE ARE THE
00:52:21FRIEND, THE FORMER U.S. SOLDIER AND PRESIDENT
00:52:24ULYSSES S. GRANT REFERRED TO WHEN HE SAID FRIEND IN MY
00:52:28ADVERSITY, I SHOULD ALWAYS CHERISH MOST.
00:52:31I CAN BETTER TRUST THOSE WHO HELP TO RELIEVE THE GLOOM OF
00:52:35MY DARK HOURS THAN THOSE THAT ARE SO READY TO ENJOY
00:52:38WITH ME THE SUNSHINE OF MY
00:52:40PROSPERITY SO LET'S NOT FORGET OUR OBLIGATIONS TO
00:52:44EACH OTHER AND THE POWER WE
00:52:45EACH HAVE TO TRULY MAKE A
00:52:50DIFFERENCE MILES IN A BROKE OEN WORLD.
00:52:53THE BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP FORMED AND MEETING OBLIGATIONS OF CRISIS AND
00:52:57DESPAIR. LET'S REMEMBER THAT WITHOUT
00:52:59FACILITY, EMPATHY,
00:53:01COMPASSION, SOCIETY FAILS.
00:53:03LET'S COMMIT DECENCY,
00:53:06RESPECT AND KINDNESS IN ALL
00:53:08OUR ACTIONS.
00:53:13AND COMFORT FOR THOSE WHO REMEMBER HAD DAY WITH S SADNESS, HOPE FOR THOSE WHO
00:53:16REMEMBER IT WITH DESPAIR, AND TOLERANCE AND PEACE FOR
00:53:19THOSE WHO WILL REMEMBER IT WITH ANGER.
00:53:23AND LET US ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE LIVE IN AN IMFROM WORLD,
00:53:26AND IT'S OUR INDIVIDUAL --
00:53:28IMPERFECT WORLD AND IT'S OUR OBLIGATION TO MAKE IT BE
00:53:32BETTER. AS WE LEAVE HERE TODAY, ACKNOWLEDGING THE PAST AND PRESENT, AND LOOKING WITH
00:53:36HOPE TO THE FUTURE, I'M REMINDED OF ONE OF MY
00:53:39FAVOURITE LINES FROM CANADIAN POET SINGER OF SONGWRITER LEONARD COHEN.
00:53:42I THINK IT'S A GOOD INSIGHT FOR ALL OF US, AS WE
00:53:46NAVIGATE AND SEEK TO BE A
00:53:47POSITIVE INFLUENCE IN FLAWED
00:53:53WORLD. AND COHEN SAID, RING BELLS
00:53:55THAT STILL CAN RING. FORGET YOUR PERFECT OFFERING.
00:53:58THERE IS A CRACK AND A CRACK IN EVERYTHING.
00:54:02THAT'S HOW LIGHT GETS IN.
00:54:06THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING US, AND WE MAY NEVER FORGET
00:54:10SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.
00:54:13[APPLAUSE]
00:54:24>> David: THANK YOU SO MUCH, MAYOR FARWELL.
00:54:28DURING OUR TIME TOGETHER TODAY, WE'LL BE GUIDED BY
00:54:31THREE THEMES -- REMEMBER, HONOUR, COMMEMORATE.
00:54:34AND THESE ARE PILLARS UPON WHICH THIS SERVICE HAS BEEN
00:54:38BUILT. AND WE BEGIN WITH REMEMBER. AND AT THIS MOMENT OF
00:54:41REFLECTION, I'D LIKE TO
00:54:43INVITE PASTOR KIMBERLY BES
00:54:46AND REVEREND STEPHEN MATTHEWS OF THE GANDER
00:54:49ASSOCIATION WHO JOINED US ON STAGE. >> WE ALL KNOW THAT ACROSS
00:54:53CULTURES AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY, THE LIGHTING OF A
00:54:56CANDLE HAS BEEN A SIMPLE, BUT POWERFUL ACT OF
00:55:00REMEMBRANCE. A FLAME BRINGS LIGHT TO THE
00:55:03DARKNESS. IT REPRESENTS LIVES
00:55:05REMEMBERED, LOVE THAT
00:55:08ENDURES, AND THE PROMISE THAT THOSE WE HAVE LOST WILL
00:55:12NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.
00:55:19TODAY AS WE LIGHT THIS CANDLE OF REMEMBRANCE, WE
00:55:21PAUSE TO REMEMBER THE 2, 977
00:55:27INNOCENT LIVES TAKEN ON
00:55:29SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001.
00:55:34BEHIND EVERY NUMBER IS A NAME.
00:55:37BEHIND EVERY NAME A LIFE.
00:55:42A MOTHER, A FATHER, A
00:55:44DAUGHTER, A SON, A FRIEND, A
00:55:47COLLEAGUE. PEOPLE WHO BEGAN THAT
00:55:51MORNING EXPECTING AN ORDINARY DAY BOARDING A
00:55:53PLANE, HEADING TO WORK, MAKING PLANS ANDING A
00:55:56GOOD-BYE, NEVER KNOWING THAT -- AND SAYING GOOD-BYE,
00:56:00NEVER KNOWING THAT IT WOULD BE FOR VERY LAST TIME. WE REMEMBER THE FAMILIES AND
00:56:04LOVED ONES WHOSE LIVES WERE
00:56:06CHANGED FOREVER THAT DAY.
00:56:0925 YEARS LATER.
00:56:11WE ALSO REMEMBER THOSE WHOSE LIVES WERE FOREVER ALTERED
00:56:14IN THOSE DAYS, MONTHS, AND
00:56:17YEARS THAT FOLLOWED.
00:56:21WE REMEMBER FIRST RES RESPONDERS, RECOVERY WOR WORKERS, AND OTHERS WHO
00:56:24ANSWERED THE CALL, MANY OF WHOM HAD LOSS THEIR LIVES
00:56:28SINCE, DUE TO ILLNESS,
00:56:30CONNECTED TO THEIR SERVICE.
00:56:34WE REMEMBER THE MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY WHO MADE
00:56:37ULTIMATE SACRIFICES IN YEARS
00:56:39AND CONFLICTS THAT FOLLOWED,
00:56:42AND TO THE FAMILIES AND
00:56:46LOVED ONES WHO CONTINUE TO
00:56:47CARRY THOSE LOSSES.
00:56:52PLEASE KNOW WE HERE TODAY.
00:56:55YOU'VE REMAINED OUR THOUGHTS
00:56:57AND THIS OUR PRAYERS, AND IN
00:56:59OUR HEARTS.
00:57:02TODAY WE REMEMBER AND WE
00:57:04PROMISE THAT WE WILL NEVER
00:57:07FORGET.
00:57:11[APPLAUSE]
00:57:22>> David: THANK YOU, PASTOR
00:57:26RES AND REVEREND MATTHEWS FOR LEADING US THROUGH IT ACT OF REMEMBRANCE.
00:57:29AS WE CONTINUE THIS TIME REFLECTION, WE ARE REMINDED
00:57:32THAT MUSIC HAS A WAY OF REACHING THE PLACES THAT WORDS SOMETIMES CANNOT.
00:57:36MUSIC CAN BRING COMFORT,
00:57:39OFFER HEALING, AND HELP US EXPRESS EMOTIONS AND THE
00:57:43MEMORIES WE CARRY. OUR NEXT PERFORMER IS A
00:57:46MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF
00:57:47CANADA, A JUNO-WINNING
00:57:50PERFORMER, WRITER AND
00:57:52MENTOR, WHOSE WORK SEEKS TO EMPOWER INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S AND SHARE THEIR STORIES.
00:57:56IT'S AN HONOUR TO WELCOME
00:58:00DEANA EVANS TO THE STAGE, AS
00:58:02SHE PERFORMS HER SONG.
00:58:05[APPLAUSE]
00:58:19[♪♪]
00:58:20[♪♪]
00:58:26[♪♪]
00:58:28[♪♪]
00:59:15LIKE TWINES OF TRING WE
00:59:23STRING, WE TWIST AND URN IN
00:59:32TRANSITION
00:59:36[♪♪] [♪♪]
00:59:40[♪♪]
01:00:12[♪♪]
01:00:42[♪♪]
01:01:05[♪♪]
01:01:46[♪♪]
01:02:10[♪♪]
01:02:36[APPLAUSE]
01:02:53>>> EACH YEAR ON SEPTEMBER 11, WE CARRY A DECISION THAT
01:02:57IS HEART OF YOU ARE COMMEMORATION, REMEMBERING
01:02:59LIVES WERE LOST, THE STORIES
01:03:01THAT MUST NEVER BE FORG FORGOTTEN, AND THE PEOPLE BEHIND NAMES.
01:03:05OUR FIRST STOREY IS ABOUT
01:03:08PAUL, SHARED WITH US BYIES
01:03:10DEAR FRIEND, DONNA SPIRA.
01:03:13DONNA WORKED FOR AON
01:03:15FINANCIAL SERVICES ON THE
01:03:18100TH FLOOR OF THE SOUTH TOWER. ON THAT MORNING, SHE FACED
01:03:21THE UNIMAGINABLE.
01:03:22MIRACULOUSLY, DONNA WAS ONE
01:03:25OF ONLY 12 PEOPLE, AMONG APPROXIMATELY 200 PEOPLE ON
01:03:29THAT FLOOR WHO SURVIVED. WE WITNESSED LOSS OF FRIENDS
01:03:32AND COLLEAGUES, PEOPLE SHE KNEW, CARED ABOUT, AND
01:03:35WORKED ALONGSIDE, AND CARRIES THOSE MEMORIES WITH
01:03:39HER EVERY DAY.
01:03:41TODAY, DONNA HELPS US REMEMBER PAUL, NOT SIMPLY AS
01:03:45ONE OF THE MANY LIVES LOST ON SEPTEMBER 11th, BUT AS A
01:03:48FRIEND, A PERSON WHO WAS DEEPLY LOVED, WOULD BROUGHT
01:03:52LAUGHTER TO THE LIVES OF
01:03:53OTHERS, AND WHO STILL DEEPLY MISSED.
01:03:57SO THIS HER STOREY.
01:03:59I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT ONE
01:04:02OF MY BEST FRIENDS PAUL.
01:04:03HE WORKED FOR CANTER FITZGERALD IN THE NORTH
01:04:07TOWER. HE WAS AN INCREDIBLE PERSON
01:04:09-- FUNNY, LOYAL, ALWAYS
01:04:11THERE WHEN YOU NEED HIM, AND A GREAT BOWLER.
01:04:14WE BOWL TOGETHER IN A LEAGUE FOR MANY YEARS AND SPENT
01:04:18COUNTLESS WEEKENDS WITH FRIENDS.
01:04:20MY HUSBAND AND I MISS HIM
01:04:22EVERY DAY, AND WEEKENDS WERE
01:04:25NEVER THE SAME AFTER WE LOST HIM.
01:04:28WE MET THROUGH BOWLING AND LATER DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD
01:04:31LIVED JUST AROUND CORNER FROM WHERE I GREW UP MUCH
01:04:34DESPITE LIVING SO CLOSE, WE HAD DIFFERENT CIRCLES OF
01:04:37FRIENDS AND NEVER CROSSED PATHS UNTIL THEN.
01:04:40WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT WE
01:04:41COULD BECOME SUCH CLOSE FRIENDS?
01:04:45THERE WAS NEVER A DULL MOMENT WITH PAUL.
01:04:47HE ALWAYS MADE PEOPLE LAUGH
01:04:50AND KNEW HOW TO ENJOY LIFE.
01:04:53ON SEPTEMBER 11th, WHEN FIRST PLANE HIT THE NORTH
01:04:56TOWER, I IMMEDIATELY TRIED
01:04:58CALLING IMSEE IF IT HE WAS
01:05:00OKAY -- HIM TO SEE IF HE WAS OK. THIS WAS NO ANSWER.
01:05:04I COULDN'T CONTROL MY EMOTIONS, AND DEEP DOWN, I
01:05:07KNEW THINGS WERE NOT GOOD. SAYING GOOD-BYE SUCH A DEAR
01:05:11FRIEND WAS ONE OF THE HARDEST DAYS OF MY LIFE.
01:05:14I MISS HIM EVERY DAY.
01:05:17HIS MEMORY ALWAYS LIVE ON,
01:05:19AND HE WILL FOREVER HOLD YOU
01:05:21A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART.
01:05:29THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE]
01:05:32>> David: THANK YOU SO MUCH, TRINA FOR SHARING DONNA'S
01:05:36STOREY ABOUT HER FRIEND P PAUL. A STORE LIKE THAT ON A DAY
01:05:39LIKE THIS IS A REMINDER TO CHERISH PEOPLE WE LOVE AND
01:05:43EMBRACE THE MOMENTS THAT WE
01:05:48ARE GIVEN. IN THIS MOMENT, IT'S MY
01:05:50GREAT PRIVILEGE TO WELCOME
01:05:52HER EXCELLENCY RIGHT
01:05:59HONOURABLE GOVERNOR GENERAL IT BRING REMARKS.
01:06:02[APPLAUSE]
01:06:06>> DIGNITARIES AND
01:06:10REPRESENTATIVES OF CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES, MEMBERS OF THE CANADIAN
01:06:13ARMED FORCES, DISTINGUISHED
01:06:16GUESTS, AND, OF COURSE,
01:06:18PEOPLE OF GANDER AND OF ALL
01:06:20OTHER HOST COMMUNITIES OF
01:06:23OPERATION YELLOW RIBBON. IT'S A REAL YOU GREAT HONOUR
01:06:27FOR ME TO BE WITH YOU.
01:06:30.E
01:06:35[SPEAKING IN FRENCH] [VOICE OF TRANSLATOR] >> PARTICULARLY TODAY ON A A
01:06:38THAT MARKED OUR HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY.
01:06:42[END OF TRANSLATION] >> 25 YEARS AGO ON SEPTEMBER
01:06:4411, 20012, A DAY OF UNIMAGINABLE TRAJY IN THE
01:06:48UNITED STATES, CAME A -- TRAGEDY IN THE UNITED STATES
01:06:51CAME A DEFINING MOMENT OF LIVES OF PEOPLE HERE IN
01:06:53GANDER AND THE COMMUNITIES ACROSS CANADA.
01:06:56ON THAT DAY, WE STRUGGLED TO
01:06:59COMPREHEND THE HORROR UN UNFOLDING IN NEW YORK, AT
01:07:02THE PENTAGON, AND IN THE
01:07:04SKIES OVER PENNSYLVANIA. OUR HEARTS WENT OUT TO THE
01:07:08VICTIMS AND TO THEIR LOVED
01:07:11ONES, AND WE SENSE THAT
01:07:14SOMETHING FUNDAMENTAL HAD CHANGED IN OUR UNDERSTANDING
01:07:17OF THE WORLD. WE HAVE YET TO RECOVERY
01:07:21FULLY THE SENSE OF SECURITY
01:07:23THAT COMES FROM LIVING IN A
01:07:25FREE AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.
01:07:29TRUST GAVE WAY TO HY HYPER-VIGILANCE, AND
01:07:33DISTRUST WAS EASILY MANIPULATED AND OVER TIME,
01:07:36LED TO THE STIGMATIZATION OF
01:07:40MUSLIM COMMUNITIES ALL OVER THE WORLD.
01:07:42FOR MOST CANADIANS, LARGE OF
01:07:45SCALE POLITICAL VIOLENCE
01:07:48SEEM VERY DISTANT FROM OUR DAILY LIVES. SEPTEMBER 11 SHATTERED THAT
01:07:52SENSE OF DISTANCE.
01:07:55ON THAT DAY, TERRORISTS
01:07:57ATTACKS STRUCK THE COUNTRY
01:08:00CLOSEST TO OURS, A COUNTRY
01:08:04CLOSE IN NOT ONLY GEOGRAPHICALLY, A FRIEND
01:08:08WHICH WHOM WE HAVE FORGED AN EXCEPTIONAL RELATIONSHIP
01:08:10OVER GENERATIONS. CANADIANS AND AMERICANS
01:08:14FOUGHT ALONGSIDE ONE ANOTHER
01:08:16IN TWO WORLD WARS, AND FOOD
01:08:19TOGETHER IN DEFENCE OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY
01:08:22THROUGHOUT THE COLD WAR.
01:08:26WE HAVE HELPED ONE ANOTHER THROUGH NATURAL DISASTERS
01:08:29AND DIFFICULT TIMES, TIME
01:08:32AND TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
01:08:35ENTIRE COMMUNITIES FROM WIN STORE TO DETROIT, VANCOUVER
01:08:39TO SEATTLE, HAVE GROWN SIDE
01:08:42BY SIDE, ALWAYS IN SOLIDARITY IN THE FACE OF
01:08:46ADVERSITY.
01:08:50THAT LONG-STANDING BOND WAS
01:08:52EVIDENT ON SEPTEMBER 11th,
01:08:54AS CANADIANS RESPONDED
01:08:56IMMEDIATELY WITHIN HOURS.
01:08:59MORE THAN 33,000 TRAVELLERS
01:09:02ABOARD. MORE THAN 200 YOU VERTED
01:09:05FLIGHTS FROM -- DIVERTED
01:09:08FLIGHTS FOUND REFUGE ON CANADIAN SOIL. HERE GANDER, BUT ALSO
01:09:12HALIFAX, THIS VANCOUVER,
01:09:13WHITEHORSE, AND IN MANY
01:09:16OTHER COMMUNITIES ACROSS OUR COUNTRY.
01:09:20ENTIRE COMMUNITIES MOBILIZED
01:09:22IN A SPONTANEOUS OUTPOURING
01:09:24OF GENEROSITY AND SOLI SOLIDARITY.
01:09:28[SPEAKING IN FRENCH] [VOICE OF TRANSLATOR]
01:09:32>> COMMUNITY CENTRES WERE TRANSFORMED INTO PLACES OF
01:09:35WELCOME.
01:09:36VOLUNTEERS PREPARED MEALS,
01:09:40SECURED CLOTHING, AND HELPED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO
01:09:44COMMUNICATE WITH THEIR LOVED ONES.
01:09:48ORDINARY CITIZENS OPENED
01:09:51THEIR DOORS TO STRANGERS, AND IN SPACE OF ONLY A FEW
01:09:54DAYS, THEY BECAME NOT ONLY
01:09:57THEIR GUESTS, BUT ALSO
01:09:59FRIENDS THAT THEY STILL
01:10:03COMMUNICATE WITH. [END OF TRANSLATION] >> LOCAL POLICE SERVICES AND
01:10:06FIRST RESPONDERS ACROSS CANADA RESPONDED WITH
01:10:09COURAGE, PROFESSIONALISM,
01:10:12AND COMPASSION. THEY HELPED KEEP AFFECTED
01:10:15INDIVIDUALS SAFE, AND THEY SUPPORTED THE COMMUNITIES
01:10:18THAT WELCOME THEM.
01:10:22CANADIAN FIREFIGHTERS, POLICE OFFICERS, AND THE
01:10:24CANADIAN RED CROSS TRAVELLED
01:10:26IT NEW YORK CITY TO SUPPORT
01:10:28THEIR AMERICAN COUNTERPARTS FACING AN UNPRECEDENTED
01:10:32DISASTER.
01:10:34WE ALSO REMEMBER THE MEMBERS
01:10:36OF THE CANADIAN ARMED FO FORCES, WHO ANSWER CALL OF
01:10:40DUTY ALONGSIDE THEIR
01:10:42AMERICAN PARTNERS, AND THAT
01:10:44SUPPORT WAS NOT SHORT-LIVED.
01:10:47IN THE MONTHS AND YEARS THAT
01:10:50FOLLOWED, CANADIAN SPIRIT OF
01:10:52SOLIDARITY AND SACRIFICES
01:10:54ENDURED, LEADING OUR ARMED FORCES TO SERVE ALONGSIDE
01:10:58OUR ALLIES AND PARTNERS IN
01:11:02AFGHANISTAN. THEIR SERVICE CAME AT A
01:11:05TERRIBLE, ENORMOUS COST, CLAIMING THE LIVES OF 158
01:11:09CANADIAN ARMED FORCES
01:11:12MEMBERS. TODAY, WE HONOUR THE MEMORY
01:11:15OF THE NEARLY 3,000 PEOPLE WHO WERE KILLED AT WORLD
01:11:19TRADE CENTRE, THE PENTAGON,
01:11:23AND ABOARD FLIGHT 93, AND WE STAND WITH THEIR FAMILIES
01:11:27AND THEIR LOVED ONES.
01:11:31AMONG THEM WERE AMERICANS, CANADIANS, AND NATIONALS
01:11:34FROM MORE THAN 90 COUNTRIES.
01:11:37WE HONOUR THOSE WHO SUCCUMB TO INJURIES AND ILLNESSES
01:11:41THAT WERE LINKED TO ATTACKS,
01:11:45INCLUDING COURAGEOUS FIRST RESPONDERS WHO SELFLESSLY
01:11:48RUSHED TO HELP THE VICTIMS.
01:11:50[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
01:11:53[VOICE OF TRANSLATOR] >> ALL THOSE LIVES WERE
01:11:56BRUTALLY INTERRUPTED, BUT THEIR MEMORY REMAINS ALIVE
01:12:00IN THE HEARTS OF THEIR LOVED ONES, AND IN COLLECTIVE
01:12:04CONSCIENCE OF OUR NATIONS. [END OF TRANSLATION]
01:12:08>> WHO SURVIVED ATTACKS AND WHOSE LIVES HAVE BEEN PROFOUNDLY MARKED BY THAT
01:12:12DAY. AT THE HEART OF A DARK DAY,
01:12:15GANDER, SHONE AS A POWERFUL
01:12:18LIGHT OF HUMANITY. 25 YEARS LATER, THAT LIGHT
01:12:22HAS NOT FADED.
01:12:23IT LIVES IN MEMORY OF THOSE
01:12:26WHO WERE WELCOMED HERE THIS THE BONDS THAT WERE FORCED
01:12:30-- FORGED ACROSS BORDERS AND
01:12:32IN THE ENDURING FRIENDSHIPS BETWEEN PEOPLE OF OUR TWO
01:12:36COUNTRIES.
01:12:37AS WE HONOUR THOSE WE LOST,
01:12:41MAY WE ALSO CARRY FOREVER THE VALUES THAT GUIDED THIS
01:12:44COMMUNITY IN A MOMENT OF CRISIS.
01:12:48COMPASSION, GENEROSITY, AND
01:12:51SOLIDARITY. THIS IS THE SPIRIT THAT WE
01:12:55HONOUR HERE TODAY.
01:12:57[SPEAKING IN FRENCH] [VOICE OF TRANSLATOR]
01:13:00>> THANK YOU TO ALL PEOPLE
01:13:02OF GANDER THAT WE SEE HERE
01:13:05TODAY. THANK YOU.
01:13:09[APPLAUSE]
01:13:15>> David: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THOSE WORDS, FOR JOINING US TODAY, AND SHARING YOUR
01:13:19THOUGHTS AS PART OF THIS CEREMONY. PLEASE JOIN ME HOW IT IN
01:13:22WELCOMING HER HONOUR, THE
01:13:24HONOURABLE JOAN MARIE ALE
01:13:27WARD, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OWE ALEWARD, LIEUTENANT
01:13:30GOVERNOR OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR.
01:13:32[APPLAUSE]
01:13:39>> NEWFOUNDLANDERS AND LABRADORIANS ARE
01:13:43STORYTELLERS. ORAL HISTORY HAS SHAPED OUR
01:13:46GENERATIONS.
01:13:48IN JUNE OF 1936, WORKERS
01:13:52ARRIVED AT MILEPOST 213 OF
01:13:56THE NEWFOUNDLAND RAILWAY.
01:13:58LITTLE IT THEY KNOW THAT THE LAND THEY STARTED TO CLEAR
01:14:02WAS TO BECOME THE SITE OF WHAT WOULD BECOME FOR A TIME
01:14:05THE WORLD'S LARGEST RUNWAY
01:14:07AND TARMAC.
01:14:10WAS FROM HERE THAT MANY
01:14:12ALLIED AIRCRAFT LEFT FOR EUROPE TO SUPPORT OPERATIONS
01:14:16IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
01:14:19AND SINCE THAT TIME, CO COUNTLESS COMMERCIAL
01:14:22AIRLINES HAVE RELIED ON GANDER TO HELP THEM BRIDGE
01:14:25THE MIGHTY ATLANTIC.
01:14:28TODAY, WE REMEMBER OPERATION
01:14:30YELLOW RIBBON, THE DAY CANADA HANDLED THE CITY
01:14:34VERSION OF CIVILIAN AIRLINE
01:14:38-- DIVERSION OF CIVILIAN AIRLINE FLIGHTS FROM
01:14:41AIRSPACE IN THE AFTERMATH OF 9-11.
01:14:44UP TO 240 AIRCRAFT WERE DIVERTED 17 AIRPORTS ACROSS
01:14:47THE COUNTRY. 38 OF THOSE AIRCRAFT
01:14:51SAFELYTY VERTED FROM U.S.
01:14:53AIR -- DIVERTED FROM U.S. AIRSPACE AND CAME TO THIS
01:14:56CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD.
01:14:57THEY CAME TO GANDER.
01:15:01MOMENTS OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE HISTORY SHAPE WHO
01:15:05WE ARE. SUCH MOMENTS INSPIRE GREAT
01:15:08JOY, AND OTHER MOMENTS CAUSE
01:15:10US TO MOURN, DUE TO
01:15:12UNIMAGINABLE LOSSES FROM THE
01:15:15SEA, THE LAND AND THE AIR.
01:15:18THE STOREY OF THE HORRORS
01:15:20THAT TOOK PLACE 25 YEARS AGO
01:15:23TODAY IMPACTED THE WORLD
01:15:26LIKE FEWER OTHER MOMENTS IN MODERN HISTORY.
01:15:29AND NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR WILL FOREVER BE
01:15:32PART OF THIS MOMENT IN TIME.
01:15:35AND WHAT HAPPENED HERE IS A
01:15:39TAIL WE GRAB ONTO BOTH HANDS. WE EMBRACE THE STORIES OF
01:15:43NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADORIANS EMBODYING
01:15:46BRIGHT LIGHT OF HUMANITY ON PERHAPS ONE THE DARK WE HAVE
01:15:50DAYS IN OUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- DARKEST AS IT IN
01:15:54OUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY. IN MIDST OF UNSPEAKABLE
01:15:57TERROR, WE ARE REMINDED
01:15:58AGAIN OF THE GOOD IN THE WORLD.
01:16:02GOOD PEOPLE GOING ABOUT THEIR LIVES THAT DAY AND
01:16:06SUDDENY CALLED TO ACTION -- SUDDENLY CALLED TO ACTION.
01:16:09IT WAS A MOMENT IN TIME, DESPITE ALL THAT HAS
01:16:13HAPPENED AND INSTILLS ENORMOUS PRIDE IN US BECAUSE
01:16:16OF THE KINDNESS, EMPATHY,
01:16:19THE GENEROSITY, AND THE CARE FOR WHICH NEWFOUNDLANDERS
01:16:22AND LABRADORIANS ARE KNOWN.
01:16:26IT WAS A MOMENT THAT CONTINUES TO INSPIRE OUR
01:16:29PROVINCE, OUR COUNTRY, AND
01:16:32PERHAPS EVEN OUR WORLD TO BE STRONGER THROUGH ACTS OF
01:16:36EMPATHY AND GOODWILL.
01:16:39TODAY MORE THAN EVER, IT IS
01:16:42IMPORTANT THAT WE PLACE A SPOTLIGHT ON THIS WONDERFUL
01:16:45PLACE IN OUR CANADA.
01:16:48IN THIS PLACE, RESTS THE
01:16:51SOUL AND THE HEART OF OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE
01:16:53NEAR AND FAR.
01:16:56HERE IS THE PLACE AND THE
01:16:59TIME TO REMIND OURSELVES AND OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD OF
01:17:03THE HISTORICAL OBLIGATION WE
01:17:05HAVE TO HONOUR OUR HISTORY,
01:17:08TO HONOUR OUR COMMON
01:17:10HUMANITY, AND TO HONOUR OUR FRIENDSHIPS.
01:17:13FOR CENTURIES, PEOPLE HAVE
01:17:15SOUGHT SHELTER ON OUR SHORES IT TIMES OF DANGER.
01:17:19THAT DAY, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR WAS ONCE AGAIN A
01:17:23SAFEHAVEN FOR SO MANY IN
01:17:24NEED OF REFUGE.
01:17:27PLANES LANDED IN ST. JOHN'S,
01:17:29HAPPY VALUE GOOSE BAY, DEER
01:17:32LAKE AND -- HAPPY VALLEY
01:17:34GOOSE BAY, DEER LAKE AND STEPHENSVILLE.
01:17:37BUT THE BIGGEST IMPACT WAS RIGHT HERE IN GANDER IN THE
01:17:41MANY TOWNS AND COMMUNITIES NEARBY. WITHIN THE SPAN OF A FEW
01:17:44HOURS, POPULATION GANDER ALMOST DOUBLED WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THOUSANDS OF
01:17:48PASSENGERS FROM 38 PLANES.
01:17:52IN RESPONSE, YOU OPENED YOUR
01:17:54HOMES, OPENED YOUR CHURCHES, OPENED YOUR LEGIONS, YOUR
01:17:58LIONS CLUBS, OPENED THE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY
01:18:02CENTRES, AND WHATEVER ELSE
01:18:04WAS AVAILABLE.
01:18:06MOSTLY, YOU OPENED YOUR HEARTS.
01:18:09YOU OPENED YOUR HEARTS TO THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO
01:18:13ARRIVED AS FRIGHTENED
01:18:14STRANGERS, BUT DEPARTED DAYS
01:18:17LATER, MANY AS LOVED FRIENDS
01:18:19AND FAMILY OF THE HEART.
01:18:23RECENTLY, THE WORLD LOST A
01:18:26KIND AND WONDERFUL ENTE
01:18:28ENTERTAINER AND HUMAN
01:18:30HUMANITARIAN, DOLLY PARTON.
01:18:33OF THE RESILIENCY OF
01:18:36HUMANITY, SHE ONCE SAID,
01:18:39STORMS MAKE TREES TAKE
01:18:41DEEPER ROOTS.
01:18:44THE PLANE PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS HAVE ROOTS HERE IN
01:18:47NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR. WE'VE MET SO MANY OF THEM
01:18:49OVER LAST COUPLE OF DAYS.
01:18:52AND THE COMMUNITIES THAT WELCOMED THEM DEVELOPED DEEPER ROOTS FROM THE
01:18:56INCREDIBLE HUMANITARIAN
01:18:58EFFORT THAT WAS REQUIRED THAT WEEK.
01:19:01THE PEOPLE OF GANDER AND
01:19:03SURROUNDING AREAS ALL POINTS
01:19:07IN BETWEEN, SHOWED THE WORLD THAT THERE IS SOMETHING
01:19:11STRONG AND GENUINE IN THE WORLD, AND THAT THERE WAS
01:19:14HOPE AROUND US WHEN HOPE
01:19:16SEEMED LOST ELSEWHERE.
01:19:19THE LEGACY OF KINDNESS YOU
01:19:22SHOWED LIVES ON TODAY, SOME
01:19:2425 YEARS LATER, AND WHILE WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE
01:19:28TERRIBLE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER
01:19:3011th, 2001, AND WE'LL NEVER
01:19:34FORGET THOSE LOST AND THOSE
01:19:37FIRST RESPONDERS, WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE STORE
01:19:41YOU OF THE GOOD -- STOREY OF THE GOOD THAT CONTINUES TO
01:19:44INSPIRE US. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU
01:19:47DID 25 YEARS AGO, AND FOR
01:19:50ALL THE GOOD WORK THAT CONTINUES EVERY DAY.
01:19:53YOU MAKE US PROUD.
01:19:56THANK YOU FOR YOUR EMPATHY,
01:19:58FOR SHOWING EACH OTHER AND THOSE STRANDED THAT DOESN'T
01:20:02MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM. WE ARE AN ISLAND STRONG AND
01:20:06FREE AS PART OF THE
01:20:07BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY, CANADA.
01:20:10AND ONLY -- AND ONLY DID FOR
01:20:13YOU WHAT WE WOULD DO NATURALLY.
01:20:15IN IT THE AFTERMATH OF THE
01:20:18STORM -- IN THE AFTERMATH OF
01:20:21THE STORM, HUMANITY'S ROOTS WERE STRENGTHENED BY YOUR
01:20:24GOOD DEEDS AND GOODWILL.
01:20:26WE WILL FOREVER BE GRATEFUL.
01:20:29THANK YOU.
01:20:30THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE]
01:20:46[♪♪]
01:20:48♪
01:20:56WHEN I THINK BACK ON THESE
01:20:59TIMES AND THE DREAMS WE LEFT BEHIND ♪
01:21:03I'LL BE GLAD I WAS TO HAVE
01:21:08YOU IN MY LIFE ♪
01:21:10WHEN I LOOK BACK ON THESE
01:21:13DAYS, I LOOK AND SEE YOUR FACE ♪
01:21:16YOU WERE RIGHT THERE FOR ME
01:21:27♪ SEE YOU SOAR ABOVE THE SKY ♪
01:21:30IN MY HEART, I'LL ALWAYS BE
01:21:33A PLACE FOR YOU FOR ALL MY
01:21:40LIFE ♪
01:21:41I'LL BE A PART OF YOU WITH
01:21:46ME ♪
01:21:49AND EVERYWHERE WE'LL BE ♪
01:21:53AND EVERYWHERE I AM, THERE
01:21:58YOU WILL BE ♪
01:22:01WHEN YOU SHOW ME HOW IT
01:22:06FEELS TO BE THE SUN WITHIN MY REACH ♪
01:22:10AND I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER
01:22:12ALL THE STRENGTH YOU GAVE TO
01:22:20ME ♪ I OWE OFF TO YOU ♪
01:22:23YOU WERE RIGHT THERE FOR ME
01:22:30♪ HAD MY DREAMS I'LL ALWAYS
01:22:33SEE YOU SOAR ABOVE THE SKY ♪
01:22:38IN MY HEART, I'LL ALWAYS BE
01:22:43A FACE FOR YOU FOR ALL MY LIFE ♪
01:22:48I'LL BE A PART OF YOU WITH ME ♪
01:22:52AND EVERYWHERE I AM ♪
01:22:56THERE YOU'LL BE ♪
01:22:59BECAUSE I ALWAYS THOUGHT OF
01:23:03YOU AS MY LIFE AND STRENGTH ♪
01:23:05AND I WANT TO THANK YOU NOW
01:23:09FOR ALL THE DAYS ♪
01:23:11YOU WERE RIGHT THERE FOR ME ♪
01:23:14YOU WERE RIGHT THERE FOR ME ♪
01:23:16YOU WERE RIGHT THERE FOR ME
01:23:21♪
01:23:24FOR ALWAYS ♪
01:23:31IN MY HEART, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A PLACE FOR YOU
01:23:34FOR ALL MY LIFE ♪
01:23:38I'LL BE A PART OF YOU WITH
01:23:42ME ♪ AND EVERYWHERE I AM ♪
01:23:45THERE YOU'LL BE ♪
01:23:49AND EVERYWHERE I AM, THERE
01:23:53YOU'LL BE ♪
01:24:03♪ THERE YOU'LL BE ♪
01:24:09[APPLAUSE]
01:24:24>>> FROM ONE ROCK ANOTHER, IN LOVING MEMORY OF
01:24:27FIREFIGHTER BRIAN BILCR,
01:24:32FDTY SQUAD COMPANY ONE, FROM STATEN ISLAND AFFECTIONATELY
01:24:34KNOWN AS ROCK NEWFOUNDLAND, THE MAGNIFICENT ROCK THAT
01:24:38OPENED ITS ARMS TO THE WORLD ON SEPTEMBER 11, WE SHARE
01:24:41THE STOREY OF BRIAN BI HAD LCHER.
01:24:44BRIAN DIED EXACTLY AS HE LIVED, RUNNING TOWARDS THOSE
01:24:47WHO NEEDED HIM AND NEVER MISSING A BEAT.
01:24:50HIS WIFE TINA CALLED HIM CAPTAIN AMERICA, AND NOT
01:24:53SIMPLY BECAUSE HE WAS A STRAPPING, HANDSOME
01:24:56FIREFIGHTER, BRIAN WAS CALM,
01:24:58REASONABLE, FIERCELY LOYAL,
01:25:01AND ALWAYS READY TO HELP. WHETHER SOMEONE WAS STRANDED
01:25:03ON SIDE OF THE ROAD, SICK IN BED, OR SIMPLY IN NEED OF
01:25:07HONEST GUIDANCE, BRIAN SHOWED UP.
01:25:10HE WAS A LIVING EVERY DAY HERO, A PROTECTOR LONG
01:25:14BEFORE THE WORLD WILL EVER CALL HIM ONE.
01:25:17BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT ROLE BRIAN EVER ACCEPTED WAS ALSO
01:25:20HIS NEWEST, FATHERHOOD.
01:25:23HIS SON GRANT JAMES WAS BORN
01:25:25ON AUGUST 29th, 2001, JUST
01:25:2813 DAYS BRIAN WAS TAKEN FROM HIM.
01:25:31BRIAN ALWAYS WANTED A BOY, AND GRANT WAS NAMED FOR WHAT
01:25:34HE WAS, A GRANT FROM GOD.
01:25:37THOUGH THEIR TIME TOGETHER
01:25:38WAS HEART BREAKINGLY BRIEF,
01:25:42BRIAN'S SPIRIT WAS IN HIS SON.
01:25:45ON AUGUST 30th, 2001, BRIAN
01:25:47BOUGHT A 1976 CORVETTE STING
01:25:50RAY, DREAMING ONE DAY HE
01:25:53WOULD TEACH GRANT TO WORK ON CARS. TODAY GRANT IS AN EXTRAORDINARILY GIFTED
01:25:57MECHANIC, WITH A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION OF VEHICLES HE'S RESTORED
01:26:01HIMSELF, ALTHOUGH HIS FATHER'S HANDS HAVE QUIETLY
01:26:04BEEN GUIDING HIS OWN.
01:26:06HE ALSO TREASURES BRIAN'S
01:26:08PRESERVED 1997 JEEP RANGLER
01:26:12AND NOW OWNS A BOAT APTLY
01:26:14NAMED HEY BARTENDER 2, NAMED
01:26:17AFTER BRIAN'S BELOVED BOAT.
01:26:20BRIAN BELIEVED IN WORKING HARD, PLAYING HARD, AND
01:26:24NEVER SQUANDERING A DAY ON NEGATIVITY. HE WILL TRY ANYTHING ONCE
01:26:27AND USUALLY CONVINCED EVERYONE ELSE TO TRY WITH HIM.
01:26:31HE BODY SURFED, BOATED AND SOUGHT OUT ADVENTURE
01:26:35WHEREVER HE COULD. HE ONCE JUMPED FROM A LI LIGHTHOUSE INTO THE OCEAN
01:26:39AND TINA JUMPED, TOO, BECAUSE SHE LOVED HIM AND
01:26:41WANTED TO IMPRESS HIM. BRIAN LIVED WITH THE TOP
01:26:44DOWN, THE SUN ON HIS FACE, AND HIS THOSE IN SAND.
01:26:48FOR YEARS, THE FAMILY GATHERED DOWN THE SHORE, AS
01:26:50WE SAY IN NEW JERSEY.
01:26:54BRIAN ALWAYS BUDGETED ONE PRECIOUS WEEK FOR THE BU
01:26:57BUDGET, COOLERS FULL, LAUGHTER AND ANOTHER
01:27:00ADVENTURE WAITING BEYOND THE HORIZON.
01:27:02SOMETIMES HE WOULD STAY ON THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE SIMPLY
01:27:05TO SEE AS FAR AS EYE COULD SEE.
01:27:09PERHAPS THAT'S WHERE WE'RE WATCHING HIM NOW.
01:27:1225 YEARS LATER, HIS LEGACY REMAINS LIVE IN THE FAMILY
01:27:16HE LEFT BEHIND. TINA AND BRIAN SISTER'S
01:27:19LAURA, GIRLS, AS HE CALLED THEM, REMAINED DEEPLY
01:27:23CONNECTED, KEEPING HIS CHILDREN AND LAURA'S
01:27:25CHILDREN CLOSE WHILE SHARING
01:27:28THEIR REMARKABLE 96-YEAR-OLD
01:27:30MOTHER WOULD LIVES CAPABLY
01:27:34AND INDEPENDENTLY. HE CAME FROM GOOD STOCK.
01:27:37HE WAS A WE VOTED SON,
01:27:38BROTHER, HUSBAND -- DEVOTED
01:27:42AND EVERYONE'S PAIVRT PERSON, A MAN -- FAVOURITE
01:27:46PERSON WHO LIVED BEYOND HIS YEARS, SPEAKING THE TRUTH AND LOVING HIS PEOPLE
01:27:49FIERCELY. 25 YEARS HAVE NOT DIMINISHED THEIR LOVE.
01:27:53THEY HAVE REVELED IN THE STRENGTH. BRIAN WAS TAKEN JUST AS MOST
01:27:57POIGNANT CHAPTER OF HIS LIFE WAS BEGINNING, BUT HE NOT
01:28:00LEAVE IT UNWRITTEN. CONTINUES THROUGH GRANT, THROUGHIES FAMILY, AND
01:28:04THROUGH EVERY LIFE MADE
01:28:05BETTER BECAUSE BRIAN BILCHER ONCE SHOWED UP.
01:28:09FROM ONE ROCK TO ANOTHER, WE REMEMBER HIM NOT ONLY FOR
01:28:13THE HEROISM OF HIS FINAL
01:28:15MOMENTS, BUT FOR THE HERO HE WAS EVERY SINGLE DAY.
01:28:19HE WORKED HARD. HE PLAYED HARD.
01:28:21HE LOVED HARD, AND HE LIVED.
01:28:25[APPLAUSE]
01:28:38>> THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT STOREY, BRIAN.
01:28:41CITIZENS FROM MORE THAN 9 TO COUNTRIES LOST THE ATTACKS
01:28:44AND THAT INCLUDES 26 CANADIANS. THEY CAME FROM ALL WALKS OF
01:28:48LIVES, LOVED LIFE. SOME WORKED IN THE TOWERS.
01:28:51OTHERS WERE ATTENDING TRADE WARS VISITING LOVED ONES.
01:28:54TWO CANADIANS WERE PASSENGERS ON THE FLIGHTS THAT STRUCK THE TOWERS.
01:28:57ANOTHER WAS A CO-PILOT OF EMERGENCY UNITED FLIGHT 93,
01:29:01WHICH CRASHED IN A FIELD NEAR SHANKSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, WHEN THE
01:29:05PASSENGERS FOUGHT BACK IN A BRAVE ACT OF SACRIFICES TO
01:29:09PREVENT MORE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. TODAY, WE HONOUR EACH OF
01:29:13THESE CANADIANS BY READING THEIR NAMES ALOUD.
01:29:16LET US REMEMBER THAT BEHIND EVERY NAME WAS A LIFE, A
01:29:19FAMILY, AND A STOREY.
01:29:23MICHAEL ARCHINSKI.
01:29:26GARNETT ACE BAILEY.
01:29:29DAVID BARKWAY.
01:29:31KEN BAZNIKI.
01:29:34JANE BEATTY.
01:29:36JOSEPH COLLISON.
01:29:38CYNTHIA CONNALLY.
01:29:41AARON DECK.
01:29:43FRANK JOSEPH DOYLE.
01:29:46CHRISTINE EGAN.
01:29:48MICHAEL EGAN.
01:29:52ALBERT ELMURRAY. MEREDITH BURT.
01:29:56PETER FIDELBURG.
01:29:59RALPH GEHARDT.
01:30:02LEROY HOMER, JR.
01:30:05STEWART LEE.
01:30:07MARK LUDWIGSON.
01:30:09BERNARD MASCARANUS.
01:30:14COLIN MacARTHUR. MALCOLM PELLETIER.
01:30:18DONALD ROBSON.
01:30:20ROFI THIS O ROY SANTOS.
01:30:25VLADIMIR THOMASIVH.
01:30:27DEBBIE WILLIAMS. PLEASE STANDBY FOR ACT OF
01:30:30REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY.
01:30:45[♪♪]
01:32:12[♪♪]
01:32:27[♪♪]
01:32:27[♪♪]
01:32:53>> THEY SHALL GROW NO OLD, NOR
01:32:57THE YEARS CONDEMN AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE
01:33:00MORNING, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
01:33:02>> WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
01:33:43[♪♪]
01:33:45[♪♪]
01:34:26[♪♪]
01:34:26[♪♪]
01:35:03[♪♪]
01:35:03[♪♪]
01:35:39[♪♪]
01:35:39[♪♪]
01:36:10[♪♪]
01:36:43[♪♪]
01:36:45[♪♪]
01:37:03[♪♪]
01:37:05[APPL
01:37:18[APPLAUSE]. >> THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN TO THE
01:37:21ATLANTIC STRING QUARTET, TO THE
01:37:23ROYAL REGIMENT BAND AND THE
01:37:26GANDER BRANCH FOR THEIR WORDS
01:37:28AND MUSIC JUST NOW.
01:37:37ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, FIREFIGHTERS, POLICE OFFICERS, PARAMEDICS, AND
01:37:40OTHER FIRST RESPONDERS FACED
01:37:43UNIMAGINABLE CHAOS AND DANGER. WHILE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE
01:37:47DESPERATELY TRYING TO ESCAPE, THESE MEN AND WOMEN RAN TOWARDS
01:37:50BURNING TOWERS, THEY CLIMBED THE STAIRS WHILE OTHERS WERE COMING
01:37:54DOWN. THEY CARRIED THE INJURED, HELPED
01:37:57STRANGERS TO SAFETY, AND SEARCHED FOR PEOPLE THEY NEVER
01:38:01MET, KNOWING THEY MIGHT NOT MAKE IT HOME. THEY DID IT FOR PEOPLE THEY DID
01:38:05NOT KNOW. THEY DID IT BECAUSE THAT WAS
01:38:07THEIR DUTY AND BECAUSE SAVING A
01:38:09LIFE MATTERED.
01:38:12JASON THOMAS WAS A FORMER U.S. MARINE LIVING IN NEW YORK WHEN
01:38:15THE TOWERS FELL.
01:38:17HEARING THE NEWS, HE PUT ON HIS
01:38:20OLD MARINE UNIFORM, DROVE
01:38:22TOWARDS MANHATTAN AND ENTERED
01:38:25THE DUST AND RUBBLE OF GROUND ZERO TO SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS,
01:38:28WORKING ALONGSIDE FORMER MARINE
01:38:32DAVID CARNS, HE HELPED LOCATE
01:38:36TWO TRAPPED POLICE OFFICERS.
01:38:39WE ALSO HONOUR OFFICER MOIIER
01:38:43SMITH, AMONG THE FIRST TO REPORT
01:38:47THE ATTACK AFTER WITNESSING THE NORTH PLANE STRIKE THE TOWER.
01:38:50SHE RUSHED TOWARDS THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE, GUIDING PEOPLE TO
01:38:54SAFETY BEFORE THE SOUTH TOWER COLLAPSED.
01:38:57SHE WAS 38 YEARS OLD AND LEFT
01:38:59BEHIND HER HUSBAND JIM AND THEIR 2-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER PATRICIA.
01:39:03THEIR STORIES AND THE STORIES OF
01:39:05SO MANY OTHERS REMIND US OF THE
01:39:07COURAGE AND SELFLESSNESS THAT
01:39:09EMERGED DURING UNIMAGINABLE
01:39:12CIRCUMSTANCES.
01:39:14TODAY, AS WE LIGHT THE CANDLE OF
01:39:16HONOUR, WE RECOGNIZE THOSE WHO RAN TOWARDS DANGER WHILE OTHERS
01:39:20RAN FROM IT.
01:39:22WE HONOUR THE FIREFIGHTERS,
01:39:25POLICE OFFICERS, PARAMEDICS,
01:39:27MILITARY PERSONNEL, VOLUNTEERS,
01:39:31AND EVERY DAY HEAR -- HEROES WHO
01:39:35ANSWER THE CALLS AND THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO DO SO TODAY. WE HONOUR THEIR COURAGE.
01:39:39WE HONOUR THEIR SACRIFICE.
01:39:42WE HONOUR THEIR UNWAVERING
01:39:43COMMITMENT TO HELPING OTHERS,
01:39:48EVEN WHEN THE PERSON RECEIVING
01:39:51WAS A COMPLETE STRANGER. MAY THIS CANDLE BE A LASTING
01:39:55SYMBOL OF OUR GRATITUDE FOR ALL
01:39:57THOSE WHO HAVE ANSWERED AND
01:40:01CONTINUE TO ANSWER THE CALL TO
01:40:05SERVE.
01:40:11>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. PLEASE BE SEATED. MY APOLOGIES. [APPLAUSE].
01:40:15>> THAT WAS MAJOR HENRY, AND
01:40:23FIRE CHIEF DAVE BRINGING US TO THE SECOND PILLAR OF OUR SERVICE
01:40:26TODAY, WHICH IS HONOUR, WHERE WE
01:40:29RECOGNIZE THE MANY INDIVIDUALS WHOSE COURAGE, SERVICE, AND
01:40:32SELFLESSNESS EMERGE IN THE FACE
01:40:34OF UNIMAGINABLE CIRCUMSTANCES.
01:40:39ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, THAT VERY SPIRIT OF SERVICE WAS FELT HERE
01:40:42IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR.
01:40:44WHILE EVENTS UNFOLDED, THOUSANDS
01:40:46OF KILOMETRES AWAY, FIRST RESPONDERS STOOD READY TO ANSWER
01:40:50THE CALL. WHEN 38 AIRCRAFTS CARRYING
01:40:53NEARLY 7,000 PASSENGERS WERE DIVERTED TO THIS REGION,
01:40:57COMMUNITIES FROM GANDER,
01:41:00APPLETON, GAMBO, GLENWOOD, AND
01:41:04BEYOND OPENED THEIR HOMES, SHARED THEIR FOOD, AND OFFERED
01:41:07COMFORT TO COMPLETE STRANGERS.
01:41:09IT WAS A POWERFUL EXAMPLE OF WHO WE ARE.
01:41:12PEOPLE HAVE COME TOGETHER, WHO ANSWERED THE CALL WHEN OTHERS
01:41:16NEED US MOST. THE SPIRIT OF COMPASSION AND
01:41:19SERVICE IS WOVEN INTO THE FABRIC OF THE PROVINCE.
01:41:22IT REMAINS AN IMPORTANT PART OF
01:41:24THE STORY WE COMMEMORATE TODAY. IT'S A HIGH STANDARD, ONE THAT
01:41:28THE LEADERS OF THIS PROVINCE
01:41:30MUST STRIVE TO MEET AND ON THAT
01:41:32NOTE, PLEASE JOIN ME IN
01:41:34WELCOMING THE HONOURABLE PREMIER
01:41:37OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR.
01:41:40[APP
01:41:51[APPLAUSE]. >> THANK YOU YOUR EXCELLENCY,
01:41:54GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA.
01:41:57YOUR HONOURABLE, LIEUTENANT OF
01:42:00NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR. THE GREAT HONOURABLE FORMER
01:42:04PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA.
01:42:07[APP
01:42:14[APPLAUSE]. >> HIS EXCELLENCY PETE HOEKSTRA
01:42:16AND AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED
01:42:21STATES FROM CANADA. [APPLAUSE].
01:42:24>> HIS WORSHIP, PERCY, MAYOR OF
01:42:27THE TOWN OF GANDER, AND OF
01:42:31COURSE MINISTER OF FISHERIES
01:42:34JOANNE THOMPSON, REPRESENTING
01:42:36THE M.P. NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR.
01:42:40[APP [APPLAUSE].
01:42:43>> DISTINGUISHED GUESTS,
01:42:45FRIENDS, GOOD AFTERNOON.
01:42:47THERE ARE DATES THAT LIVE ON A
01:42:51CALENDAR AND THERE ARE DATES
01:42:52THAT DIVIDE TIME INTO A BEFORE
01:42:56AND AN AFTER.
01:43:01SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, IS ONE OF
01:43:02THOSE DATES.
01:43:0725 YEARS LATER, WE CAN STILL
01:43:09REMEMBER WHERE WE WERE.
01:43:12WE CAN STILL REMEMBER THE IMAGES.
01:43:15WE CAN STILL REMEMBER THE
01:43:18DISBELIEF.
01:43:20TODAY, ABOVE ALL ELSE, WE
01:43:23REMEMBER THE NEARLY 3,000 PEOPLE
01:43:26WHOSE LIVES WERE TAKEN.
01:43:29WE REMEMBER THEIR FAMILIES AND
01:43:30THEIR LOVED ONES.
01:43:33WE REMEMBER THE FIRST RESPONDERS
01:43:36AND ALL THOSE WHO'S LIVES WERE
01:43:40FOREVER CHANGED BUT HERE IN
01:43:44NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR,
01:43:46STEPHENVILLE, ST. JOHN'S, HAPPY
01:43:49VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, AND ESPECIALLY HERE IN GANDER AND THE
01:43:52SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES,
01:43:56SEPTEMBER 11TH CARRIES ANOTHER
01:43:59PROFOUND AND ENDURING MEMORY AS WELL.
01:44:02IT IS THE MEMORY OF A TIME WHEN
01:44:05THOUSANDS OF STRANGERS BECAME
01:44:08NEIGHBOURS AND COMMUNITIES
01:44:11OPENED THEIR HEARTS TO THOSE IN NEED.
01:44:14THEY CAME FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
01:44:16THEY SPOKE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
01:44:18THEY FOLLOWED DIFFERENT FATES.
01:44:21THEY HAD DIFFERENT LIVES,
01:44:23DIFFERENT STORIES, DIFFERENT
01:44:28DESTINATIONS, BUT NONE OF THAT MATTERED.
01:44:30WHAT MATTERED WAS THAT THEY WERE HERE.
01:44:33THEY NEEDED HELP.
01:44:36SO PEOPLE HELPED.
01:44:38THERE IS SOMETHING WONDERFUL
01:44:42THAT NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR,
01:44:43ABOUT HOW UNCOMPLICATED THAT
01:44:47DECISION WAS.
01:44:48THERE WERE NO COMMITTEES STRUCK
01:44:52TO DECIDE WHETHER KINDNESS WAS WARRANTED.
01:44:55NO ONE NEEDED A POLICY ON COMPASSION.
01:44:58PEOPLE SAW A NEED AND FILLED IT.
01:45:02A SCHOOL COULD BECOME A PLACE TO SLEEP.
01:45:06A CHURCH COULD BECOME A GATHERING PLACE.
01:45:10A KITCHEN COULD FEED ANOTHER 100 PEOPLE.
01:45:14A BUS COULD MAKE ONE MORE TRIP.
01:45:18A HOME COULD FIT ANOTHER GUEST.
01:45:22SOMEHOW, THERE WAS ALWAYS
01:45:23ANOTHER CUP OF TEA.
01:45:27WHAT HAPPENED HERE WAS
01:45:30EXTRAORDINARY BECAUSE THE PEOPLE
01:45:32DOING IT THINK IT WAS EXTRAORDINARY.
01:45:35THEY THOUGHT IT WAS WHAT YOU ARE
01:45:38SUPPOSED TO DO.
01:45:4125 YEARS LATER, I THINK THIS IS
01:45:42THE PART OF THIS STORY WORTH
01:45:45HOLDING ON TO.
01:45:49SEPTEMBER 11TH BEGAN BY SHOWING
01:45:51US HUMANITY AT ITS WORST.
01:45:56IN THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED,
01:45:58PLACES LIKE GANDER REMINDED US
01:46:01OF HUMANITY AT ITS BEST.
01:46:08[APPLAUSE].
01:46:14>> NOT THROUGH SOME ENORMOUS ACT
01:46:17BUT THROUGH THOUSANDS OF SMALL ONES.
01:46:20A MEAL, A BLANKET, A TELEPHONE,
01:46:26A DRIVE ACROSS TOWN, THE
01:46:27CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE WHO IS
01:46:31AFRAID, A PLACE AT THE TABLE.
01:46:35INDIVIDUALLY, THESE WERE
01:46:36ORDINARY GESTURES.
01:46:40TOGETHER THEY BECAME SOMETHING
01:46:41THE WORLD HAS NEVER FORGOTTEN
01:46:44AND NEITHER HAVE THE PEOPLE WHO
01:46:48RECEIVE THEM.
01:46:49SOME OF THE PASSENGERS THAT
01:46:52LANDED HERE RETURNED YEARS LATER AND ARE HERE AGAIN TODAY.
01:46:55SOME CAME BACK MANY TIMES. FRIENDSHIPS CONTINUED.
01:46:59FAMILIES STAYED CONNECTED.
01:47:03REUNIONS WERE HELD. PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN BROUGHT
01:47:06TOGETHER ENTIRELY BY CIRCUMSTANCE CHOSE TO REMAIN
01:47:10PART OF EACH OTHER'S LIVES.
01:47:14THINK ABOUT THAT.
01:47:14THE PEOPLE WHO ARRIVED HERE ON
01:47:18SEPTEMBER 11TH WERE SUPPOSED TO
01:47:20BE PASSING THOUSANDS OF FEET
01:47:23ABOVE OUR PROVINCE.
01:47:24THEY WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO MEET
01:47:28THE PEOPLE OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR.
01:47:31YET, 25 YEARS LATER, SOME OF
01:47:33THOSE RELATIONSHIPS ARE STILL HERE.
01:47:36THAT IS A REMARKABLE LEGACY TO
01:47:39EMERGE FROM SUCH A TERRIBLE DAY
01:47:41AND PERHAPS THERE IS A LESSON IN
01:47:45IT FOR ALL OF US.
01:47:46WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME TALKING
01:47:50ABOUT WHAT SOMETIMES SEPARATES PEOPLE.
01:47:53GEOGRAPHY, POLITICS, RELIGION,
01:47:56LANGUAGE, BUT NEWFOUNDLANDERS
01:47:59AND LABRADORIANS DEMONSTRATED
01:48:03THAT NONE OF THAT MATTERS. WHAT MATTERS IS A PERSON WHO
01:48:06NEEDS HELP, A PERSON WHO IS FRIGHTED, A PERSON WHO MISSES
01:48:10HOME, A PERSON WHO NEEDS TO KNOW
01:48:13THAT FOR TONIGHT AT LEAST, THEY ARE SAFE.
01:48:16IN THOSE MOMENTS, A STRANGER
01:48:19BECOMES A GUEST.
01:48:22SOMETIMES A GUEST BECOMES A LIFELONG FRIEND.
01:48:25THE WORLD HAS CHANGED ENORMOUSLY
01:48:28SINCE 2001.
01:48:30THERE ARE SOME THAT KNOW IT ONLY
01:48:34AS HISTORY, WHICH MAKES
01:48:37ANNIVERSARIES LIKE THIS SO IMPORTANT. IT'S NOT SIMPLY SO WE CAN TELL
01:48:41THEM WHAT HAPPENED BUT WE CAN
01:48:44TELL THEM WHAT PEOPLE DID IN RESPONSE. WE SHOULD TELL THEM THAT WHEN
01:48:47THOUSANDS OF STRANGERS ARRIVED
01:48:50UNEXPECTEDLY, COMMUNITIES ACROSS
01:48:52NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR MADE ROOM.
01:48:54WE SHOULD TELL THEM THAT PEOPLE WORK TOGETHER WITHOUT WONDERING
01:48:58WHO WOULD GET THE CREDIT.
01:49:00WE SHOULD TELL THEM THAT
01:49:02COMPASSION CROSSED EVERY BOUNDARY.
01:49:04WE SHOULD TELL THEM THAT
01:49:07RELATIONSHIPS CREATED IN A MOMENT OF CRISIS SURVIVE LONG
01:49:11AFTER THE CRISIS WAS OVER.
01:49:14THAT IS PART OF GANDER'S HISTORY.
01:49:17IT IS PART OF NEWFOUNDLAND'S
01:49:21HISTORY AND IT'S NOW PART OF THE WORLD'S MEMORY OF
01:49:25SEPTEMBER 11TH. TODAY, WE REMEMBER THOSE WHO'S
01:49:28LIVES WERE TAKEN 25 YEARS AGO.
01:49:31WE HONOUR THOSE WHO RAN TOWARDS DANGER.
01:49:34WE STAND WITH THE FAMILIES WHO HAVE CARRIED THEIR LOSS THROUGH
01:49:37EVERY ONE OF THOSE 25 YEARS.
01:49:40THROUGHOUT OUR PROVINCE, WE ALSO
01:49:43REMEMBER A SIMPLE TRUTH THAT
01:49:47THIS COMMUNITY DEMONSTRATED WHEN
01:49:50THE WORLD DESPERATELY NEEDED TO
01:49:53SEE IT. SOMETIMES ALL IT TAKES IS AN
01:49:57OPEN DOOR. MAY WE NEVER FORGET.
01:49:59THANK YOU.
01:50:01[APPLAUSE]
01:50:18♪ TOO SOON TO LEAVE THIS EARTH ♪
01:50:21♪ HOW COULD ALL YOUR WORK BE
01:50:25DONE ♪
01:50:29♪ ASH TO ASH AND DUST TO DUST ♪
01:50:33♪ IT SEEMS TO ME YOU JUST BE
01:50:41BEGUN ♪
01:50:42♪ WHEN GRIEF INVADES MY SOUL ♪
01:50:46♪ THERE'S COMFORT IN THE PRAYER
01:50:49I FIND ♪
01:50:53♪ THOUGH THESE CANDLES HONOUR
01:50:58YOU ♪ ♪ THEY BURN FOR THOSE YOU LEFT BEHIND ♪
01:51:01♪ I'LL SING FOR YOU BECAUSE I
01:51:05NEED TO ♪
01:51:06♪ RIGHT NOW THIS IS ALL I KNOW ♪
01:51:10♪ I'LL SING SO WE WILL NOT
01:51:15FORGET YOU ♪
01:51:23♪ I WILL SING YOU HOME ♪
01:51:25♪ I WILL SING YOU HOME ♪
01:51:37♪ KNOW THAT YOU WILL LIVE ♪
01:51:40♪ ON THE LIPS OF WHO KNEW ♪
01:51:46♪ WHAT IT WAS YOU HAD TO GIVE ♪
01:51:50♪ AND WHAT IT WAS WE LEARNED
01:51:56FROM YOU ♪ ♪ THIS IS OUR PRAYER FOR YOU ♪
01:52:00♪ AND MAYBE SOME DAY WE WILL
01:52:04KNOW ♪
01:52:05♪ IF IT HELPED YOUR JOURNEY
01:52:09HOME ♪
01:52:10♪ OR IF IT HELPED ME LET YOU
01:52:19GO ♪
01:52:19♪ I'LL SING FOR YOU BECAUSE I
01:52:26NEED TO ♪
01:52:28♪ RIGHT NOW THIS IS ALL I KNOW ♪
01:52:32♪ I WILL SING SO WE WILL NOT FORGET YOU ♪ ♪ I WILL SING YOU HOME ♪
01:52:36♪ I WILL SING YOU HOME ♪
01:53:03♪ WE'RE BORN UNTO THIS EARTH ♪
01:53:06♪ GENERATIONS ONE BY ONE ♪
01:53:10♪ ASH TO ASH AND DUST TO DUST ♪
01:53:15♪ THERE IS NOTHING LEFT UNDONE ♪
01:53:23♪ I'LL SING FOR YOU BECAUSE I
01:53:28NEED TO ♪
01:53:28♪ RIGHT NOW THIS IS ALL I KNOW ♪
01:53:32♪ I'LL SING SO WE WILL NOT
01:53:37FORGET YOU ♪ ♪ I WILL SING YOU HOME ♪
01:53:40♪ I WILL SING YOU HOME ♪
01:53:47♪ I'LL SING FOR YOU BECAUSE I NEED TO ♪
01:53:50♪ RIGHT NOW THIS IS ALL I KNOW ♪
01:53:54♪ I'LL SING SO WE WILL NOT FORGET YOU ♪
01:53:58♪ I WILL SING YOU HOME ♪
01:54:06♪ I WILL SING YOU HOME ♪
01:54:08♪ I WILL SING YOU HOME ♪
01:54:12♪ I WILL SING YOU HOME ♪
01:54:48[♪♪]
01:54:50[APP
01:55:06[APPLAUSE].
01:55:06>> THE ENNIS SISTER, THE
01:55:12COMMUNITY CHOIR, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR TALENT
01:55:15WITH US TODAY.
01:55:17[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE].
01:55:19>> OPERATION YELLOW RIBBON WAS
01:55:21CANADA'S RESPONSE TO THE SEPTEMBER 11TH ATTACKS, BRINGING
01:55:25HUNDREDS OF DIVERTED AIRCRAFTS TO AIRPORTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY,
01:55:28INCLUDING OF COURSE HERE IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR, NEXT
01:55:32DOOR IN NOVA SCOTIA, AND 14
01:55:36ADDITIONAL AIRPORTS ACROSS CANADA WELCOMED DIVERTED FLIGHTS
01:55:39AS CANADIANS OPENED THEIR DOORS AND CAME TOGETHER TO HELP THOSE
01:55:43FAR FROM HOME. THE SPIRIT OF COMPASSION,
01:55:46GENEROSITY, AND SOLIDARITY WAS FELT ACROSS THIS GREAT COUNTRY
01:55:49AND BECAME AN IMPORTANT PART OF
01:55:52CANADA'S RESPONSE. TO ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT
01:55:55MOMENTS OF THIS CENTURY.
01:55:58PLEASE JOIN ME NOW IN WELCOMING
01:56:00THE HONOURABLE JOANNE THOMPSON
01:56:03TO BRING REMARKS ON BEHALF OF
01:56:05THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA.
01:56:08[APP
01:56:17[APPLAUSE]. >> YOUR EXCELLENCY, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, YOUR HONOUR,
01:56:20PREMIER, AMBASSADOR, MAYORS,
01:56:22MEMBERS OF THE CANADIAN ARMED
01:56:25FORCES, OUR FIRST RESPONDERS,
01:56:26AND ALL THOSE HERE IN GANDER.
01:56:32BONJOUR.
01:56:36[SPEAKING FRENCH][VOICE OF TRANSLATOR]: IT IS AN HONOUR TO
01:56:37BE HERE WITH YOU IN GANDER. [END OF TRANSLATION].
01:56:41>> MANY OF OUR MEMORIES OF THE DAY BEGAN WITH A FEW SIMPLE
01:56:44WORDS, TURN ON THE TV.
01:56:48SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED.
01:56:50I REMEMBER HAVING THAT THOUGHT
01:56:52AND THE MOMENT, IN THAT MOMENT,
01:56:54I NEEDED TO GET MY KIDS WHO ARE
01:56:575, 7, AND 9 AT THAT TIME.
01:57:02ST. JOHN'S FELT SILENT IN THAT MOMENT.
01:57:03THE ONLY SOUND WAS THE PLANES
01:57:06OVERHEAD.
01:57:08ONE AFTER ANOTHER AFTER ANOTHER.
01:57:11IT WAS FRIGHTENING.
01:57:12I THINK WE SOMETIMES FORGET HOW
01:57:15FRIGHTENING THAT WAS.
01:57:1738 OF THOSE PLANES WERE TURNING
01:57:20TOWARDS A TOWN WITH AN AIRPORT
01:57:22AS BIG AS ITSELF.
01:57:25GANDER WAS NOT ALONE.
01:57:27ST. JOHN'S, STEPHENVILLE, AND
01:57:30GOOSE BAY TOOK PLANES THAT DAY
01:57:32AS WELL.
01:57:35WHILE SO MANY OF US FELT THAT STRONG URGE TO HELP AND PROTECT
01:57:38OUR OWN, THAT SAME FEELING WAS HERE IN GANDER, BUT FOR PEOPLE
01:57:42THEY HAD NEVER MET.
01:57:44SO WHILE THE STORY OF WHAT
01:57:47HAPPENED NEXT IS STRANGERS
01:57:50HELPING STRANGERS, IT'S NOT THE
01:57:51FULL STORY.
01:57:54AMERICANS HAVE BEEN OUR NEIGHBOURS IN THIS PROVINCE AND
01:57:57COUNTRY FOR A LONG TIME.
01:58:00IN ARGENTIA, STEPHENVILLE, AND
01:58:03GOOSE BAY, WHERE MY FATHER WORKED AT THE BASE FOR SO MANY
01:58:06YEARS AS A MECHANIC.
01:58:08AMERICANS WERE THE PEOPLE HE
01:58:10PROUDLY WORKED BESIDE, A STORY
01:58:13SHARED BY MANY NEWFOUNDLANDERS
01:58:15AND LABRADORIANS.
01:58:17WHEN THOSE PLANES LANDED, WE MAY
01:58:20NEVER HAVE MET THEM BUT THEY
01:58:26WERE NOT STRANGERS. IT WAS PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE.
01:58:29KINDNESS IN THE FACE OF
01:58:31UNIMAGINABLE FAIR AND -- FEAR
01:58:37AND UNCERTAINTY. DESPITE IT ALL, IT WAS A MOMENT
01:58:40OF SHARED HUMANITY.
01:58:41IN MANY WAYS, THE MOST
01:58:44EXTRAORDINARY THING ABOUT GANDER'S RESPONSE IS HOW UTTERLY
01:58:48ORDINARY IT WAS FOR THEM.
01:58:51YOU HEAR IT TIME AND AGAIN.
01:58:53WHAT ELSE COULD WE HAVE DONE BUT
01:58:57HELP. I BELIEVE THERE IS STILL A SENSE OF DISBELIEF IN IT ALL TODAY.
01:59:01IT TOOK THE REST OF THE COUNTRY,
01:59:03THE WORLD, AND THE PLAIN PEOPLE
01:59:11TELLING THEIR STORY, OR A
01:59:13MUSICAL, BEFORE GANDER BELIEVED THEY HAD DONE SOMETHING SPECIAL.
01:59:17THAT DAY CHANGED THE WORLD BUT IT DID NOT BREAK THE PEOPLE HERE.
01:59:21IT DID NOT MAKE THEM CYNICAL OR AFRAID.
01:59:25IT DID THE OPPOSITE. IT SHINED A LIGHT ON WHO THEY
01:59:29HAVE ALWAYS BEEN.
01:59:31PEOPLE WHO HELP AND WHO SERVE.
01:59:37A 9/11 GANDER SHOWED THE WORLD
01:59:38THE VERY BEST OF CANADA.
01:59:42THIS PART OF THE SERVICE IS
01:59:43ABOUT HONOUR, SO I WANT TO
01:59:46RECOGNIZE THE PEOPLE WHO ANSWERED THAT CALL.
01:59:50IT STARTED WHEN THE AIR TRAFFIC
01:59:53CONTROLLERS IN GANDER BROUGHT
01:59:55THOSE PLANES DOWN SAFELY, ONE
01:59:58AFTER ANOTHER, WITH NO PLAN FOR
02:00:00WHAT CAME NEXT AND NO TIME TO
02:00:03MAKE ONE.
02:00:04THEN, IT MOVED TO THE GROUND.
02:00:09NINE WING OPENED THEIR GATES,
02:00:11THE RCMP WENT FROM PLANE TO PLANE.
02:00:15FIREFIGHTERS AND PARAMEDICS
02:00:16STOOD ON THE TARMAC, NOT KNOWING
02:00:19WHAT WAS ONBOARD.
02:00:21THEN IT MOVED TO THE TOWN.
02:00:25NURSES, PHARMACISTS FILLED
02:00:28PRESCRIPTIONS FOR PEOPLE WHO'S
02:00:30MEDICATION WERE STILL IN SUITCASES.
02:00:34THE SALVATION ARMY AND THE RED
02:00:37CROSS SET UP COTS.
02:00:39PEOPLE OPENED CHURCH HALLS AND
02:00:41SCHOOL GYMS.
02:00:44THEN MOST REMARKABLY, THEIR OWN
02:00:46FRONT DOORS.
02:00:49THERE ARE SO FAR MORE STORIES
02:00:51THAN I HAVE TIME TO TOUCH ON BUT
02:00:54ONE THING THEY ALL SHARE, NOBODY
02:00:56HAD TO TELL THEM TO HELP.
02:00:59EVERYONE STOPPED EVERYTHING.
02:01:01THEY WORKED DAY AND NIGHT.
02:01:04SO, ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT
02:01:06OF CANADA, I WANT TO THANK YOU
02:01:10AGAIN. MERCI BEAUCOUP.
02:01:1424 CANADIANS DIED ON SEPTEMBER 11TH AND IN THE YEARS
02:01:17THAT FOLLOWED, THE CANADIAN
02:01:20ARMED FORCE SERVICES MEMBERS
02:01:22DEPLOYED TO AFGHANISTAN,
02:01:24ALONGSIDE OUR AMERICAN NEIGHBOURS.
02:01:28150 OF THEM DID NOT COME HOME,
02:01:30INCLUDING 13 FROM NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR.
02:01:34WE WILL NEVER FORGET THEM.
02:01:38THE WORLD TODAY IS VERY DIFFERENT.
02:01:40IT'S HARDER AND I WON'T PRETEND THAT IT ISN'T.
02:01:44THINGS HAVE CHANGED BUT THE
02:01:46CANADIAN VALUES SHOWN IN GANDER
02:01:49HAVE NEVER WAVERED.
02:01:53TODAY, WHAT WE NEED MORE OF IS WHAT THIS TOWN HAD AND STILL HAS
02:01:57IN ABUNDANCE, HUMANITY.
02:02:00IT'S HARD NOT TO THINK THAT IF
02:02:02THE WORLD HAD MORE ELLIOTTS,
02:02:07MORE COOPERS, MORE PLACES LIKE
02:02:15GANDER, THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER.
02:02:189/11 WAS NOT GANDER'S STORY, BUT
02:02:229/12 WAS. THEIR STORY IS NOT ONE OF FEAR
02:02:25OR HATRED, IT IS ONE OF KINDNESS.
02:02:2825 YEARS AGO, THE WORLD TURNED
02:02:29ON THE TV AND SAW THE WORST OF HUMANITY.
02:02:33THEN IT LOOKED AT GANDER AND SAW
02:02:36THE BEST.
02:02:38SO TODAY, WE HAVE A DUTY TO
02:02:41HONOUR THOSE KIND ACTS, TO
02:02:43HONOUR THAT HUMANITY, TO NOT LET
02:02:46THOSE OPEN DOORS, HOMEMADE
02:02:49MEALS, AND THE COMPASSION BE IN
02:02:53VAIN. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US CAN
02:02:56STILL LEARN FROM IT AND CARRY IT
02:03:00FORWARD, IN SMALL EVERY DAY WAYS
02:03:02AND BIGGER ONES.
02:03:05IN A TIME LIKE NOW, IT'S HARD
02:03:07NOT TO THINK WHAT IF WE WERE ALL
02:03:10A LITTLE BIT MORE LIKE GANDER? THANK YOU.
02:03:13MERCI BEAUCOUP.
02:03:15[APP
02:03:27[APPLAUSE]. >> THANK YOU MINISTER THOMPSON.
02:03:29NEXT WE HAVE A PERFORMER WHO'S
02:03:32MUSIC HAS BEEN PART OF OUR LIVES FOR DECADES AND HE ALWAYS HAS
02:03:35THIS SPECIAL WAY OF BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER.
02:03:38PERFORMING HIS SONG INTO THE
02:03:40ARMS OF HOME, PLEASE WELCOME THE
02:03:45ONE, THE ONLY, MR. ALAN DOYLE.
02:03:48[APPLAUSE]
02:04:02♪ THIS IS JUST A MEADOW ♪
02:04:04♪ LIKE SO MANY YOU KNOW ♪
02:04:06♪ WHERE BOYS AND GIRLS PLAYED
02:04:10SOLDIERS ♪
02:04:11♪ IN THE SUNNY LONG AGO ♪
02:04:17♪ OH, I AM NOT A HERO ♪
02:04:20♪ NO MORE OR LESS THAN YOU ♪
02:04:23♪ I'M JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHERS ♪
02:04:26♪ WHO DID WHAT WE HAD TO DO ♪
02:04:32♪ SO SING ME A SONG WHEN THE
02:04:37FIELDS ARE IN FLOWER ♪
02:04:40♪ AND I'LL NEVER LIE HERE ALONE ♪
02:04:42♪ LOVE WILL BRING ME ACROSS THE
02:04:46WATER ♪
02:04:48♪ INTO THE ARMS OF HOME ♪
02:04:51♪ INTO THE ARMS OF HOME ♪
02:05:00♪ WEEP NOT FOR ME IN THE SUMMER ♪
02:05:03♪ NOR THE WINTER, SPRING, OR FALL ♪
02:05:07♪ FOR I'VE SEEN MY SHARE OF
02:05:09SORROW ♪
02:05:11♪ WHEN I WAS STANDING TALL ♪
02:05:15♪ AND YOUR TEARS WILL GET ME
02:05:20NOWHERE ♪
02:05:20♪ AND I AM NOT ALREADY KNOWN ♪
02:05:25♪ BUT A MELODY CAN MOVE ME ♪
02:05:28♪ EVER CLOSER ON TO HOME ♪
02:05:38♪ SO SING ME A SONG WHEN THE FIELDS ARE IN FLOWER ♪
02:05:41♪ AND I WILL NEVER LIE HERE ALONE ♪
02:05:44♪ AND LOVE WILL BRING ME ACROSS THE WATER ♪
02:05:48♪ INTO THE ARMS OF HOME ♪
02:05:53♪ INTO THE ARMS OF HOME ♪
02:05:58♪ AND YES, SING ME A SONG WHEN
02:06:00THE FIELDS ARE IN FLOWER ♪
02:06:03♪ AND I'LL NEVER LIE HERE
02:06:08ALONE ♪ ♪ AND LOVE WILL BRING ME ACROSS
02:06:11THE WATER ♪
02:06:14♪ AND INTO THE ARMS OF HOME ♪
02:06:21♪ INTO THE ARMS OF HOME ♪
02:06:26♪ HOME ♪
02:06:28♪ INTO THE ARMS OF HOME ♪
02:06:33♪ HOME ♪
02:06:36♪ HOME ♪
02:06:39♪ INTO THE ARMS OF HOME ♪
02:06:45♪ INTO THE ARMS OF HOME ♪
02:06:53[APPL
02:07:09[APPLAUSE]. >> WHAT DID I TELL YOU?
02:07:12HE FOUND ME JUST BEFORE THIS BEGAN TO GIVE ME A PEP TALK.
02:07:16YOU'RE GOING TO BE GREAT. IT'S GOING TO BE FINE.
02:07:19IT'S THE SECOND VERSE IN THAT, I'M NOT A HERO, NO MORE OR LESS
02:07:22THAN YOU, I'M JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHERS, WHO DID WHAT WE HAD TO DO.
02:07:26THAT SPEAKS TO THE MOMENT WE'RE REMEMBERING TODAY, AS SO MANY
02:07:30ORDINARY PEOPLE DID WHAT THEY HAD TO DO, STARTING ON THAT DAY,
02:07:3325 YEARS AGO. THAT BRINGS US TO THE FINAL
02:07:36THEME OF OUR SERVICE. WE LOOK BEYOND THE EVENTS OF
02:07:39THAT DAY OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001,
02:07:42AND REFLECT ON ITS LEGACY 25
02:07:44YEARS LATER.
02:07:46PLEASE WELCOME LIEUTENANT
02:07:50COLONEL AND THE CANADIAN RED
02:07:52CROSS, TWO ORGANIZATIONS THAT
02:07:54PLAYED AN ESSENTIAL ROLE IN ENSURING THE PASSENGERS WERE
02:07:58FED, CARED FOR, AND SUPPORTED
02:08:00DURING THOSE EXTRAORDINARY DAYS.
02:08:03[APPL
02:08:13[APPLAUSE]. >> THANK YOU. TO COMMEMORATE IS TO REMEMBER
02:08:16WITH A PURPOSE, TO CARRY THE
02:08:19STORIES, THE FRIENDSHIPS, AND
02:08:20THE LESSONS OF SEPTEMBER 11TH
02:08:23FORWARD TO GENERATIONS TO COME.
02:08:26HERE IN GANDER AND IN THE
02:08:28COMMUNITIES OF APPLETON, GAMBLE,
02:08:32GLENWOOD, LEWISPORT, NORRIS AND
02:08:37BEYOND, THAT LEGACY IS ONE OF COMPASSION.
02:08:40NEARLY 7,000 PASSENGERS ARRIVED
02:08:43AS STRANGERS AND WERE WELCOMED
02:08:44WITH OPEN HEARTS, GENEROUS
02:08:48SPIRITS, AND KINDNESS THAT THEY
02:08:51WOULD CARRY WITH THEM LONG AFTER
02:08:52THEY RETURNED HOME.
02:08:55TODAY, AS WE LIGHT OUR CANDLE OF
02:08:58COMMEMORATION, WE CELEBRATE THE FRIENDSHIPS THAT WERE FORMED,
02:09:02THE BONDS THAT CONTINUE TO THIS
02:09:04DAY, AND THE ENDURING CONNECTION
02:09:07BETWEEN OUR COMMUNITIES AND OUR
02:09:09FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD.
02:09:12MAY THIS FLAME REMIND US THAT
02:09:16THE KINDNESS SHOWN 25 YEARS AGO
02:09:19WAS NOT SIMPLY A MOMENT IN TIME.
02:09:22IT BECAME A LEGACY, ONE THAT
02:09:26CONTINUES TO INSPIRE US TO
02:09:29CHOOSE COMPASSION, TO WELCOME
02:09:32OTHERS, AND HELP WHEN HELP IS NEEDED.
02:09:35AS THIS CANDLE BURNS, MAY ITS
02:09:40LIGHT CARRY THAT LEGACY FORWARD FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT
02:09:43AND FROM THIS PLACE TO THE
02:09:47WORLD.
02:09:48[APP
02:10:00[APPLAUSE]. >> 25 YEARS AGO, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CANADA AND
02:10:03THE UNITED STATES WAS STRENGTHENED BY THESE EXTRAORDINARY MOMENTS OF
02:10:07FRIENDSHIP, COMPASSION, AND SOLI
02:10:11SOLIDARITY. WHEN TRAGEDY STRUCK, OUR CLOSEST NEIGHBOURS AND ALLIES, CANADIANS
02:10:14STOOD WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. HERE IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND
02:10:17LABRADOR WE OPENED OUR HOMES, SHARED WHAT WE HAD, FOUND WHAT
02:10:20WE DIDN'T, AND WELCOMED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO SUDDENLY
02:10:23FOUND THEMSELVES FAR FROM HOME.
02:10:25IN THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED,
02:10:27FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W.
02:10:30BUSH SPOKE OF CANADA AS A CLOSE FRIEND, REFLECTING THE DEEP
02:10:33SENSE OF FRIENDSHIP AND SUPPORT BETWEEN OUR TWO COUNTRIES AT A
02:10:37TIME WHEN IT MATTERED MOST.
02:10:39THAT SPIRIT OF FRIENDSHIP
02:10:42REENFORCED BY EVERY ACT OF
02:10:45GENEROSITY AND HOSPITALITY REMAINS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE
02:10:48LEGACY WE COMMEMORATE TODAY.
02:10:49PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING HIS
02:10:53EXCELLENCY PETE HOEKSTRA,
02:10:57AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES
02:10:58TO CANADA. [APPLAUSE].
02:11:01>> THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
02:11:05I GOT TO GET ALL THE TITLES
02:11:06RIGHT HERE IN CANADA.
02:11:09GOVERNOR GENERAL, LIEUTENANT
02:11:11GOVERNOR, PREMIER, THE BEST
02:11:15TITLE IN THE WORLD, YOUR
02:11:19WORSHIP. [LAUGHTER].
02:11:21>> PRIME MINISTER, MINISTERS,
02:11:24AND ALL THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS THAT ARE HERE TODAY.
02:11:27IT IS MY HONOUR TO BE WITH YOU.
02:11:30I REMEMBER WHERE I WAS ON 9/11.
02:11:34I WAS IN MY OFFICE.
02:11:38I WAS TALKING ABOUT ASPARE GUS
02:11:42WITH MY ASPARAGUS FARMERS AS ANY
02:11:47GOOD PARLIAMENTARIAN WOULD DO.
02:11:49WHEN WE DID GET THE FATEFUL
02:11:52MESSAGE OF TURN ON YOUR TV, TURN
02:11:55ON YOUR TV.
02:11:59TODAY, WE ARE HERE TO REMEMBER
02:12:03IN HONOUR, THE LEGACY OF THOSE
02:12:08FOLKS, THOSE PEOPLE WHO DIED AT THE TWIN TOWERS, AT THE
02:12:11PENTAGON, IN WASHINGTON, BUT
02:12:14ALSO THE SHARED SACRIFICES THAT
02:12:18WE HAD AS NATIONS, STANDING SIDE
02:12:22BY SIDE IN AFGHANISTAN TO
02:12:27CONFRONT THE HORROR THAT HAD
02:12:30PERPETRATED THESE ATTACKS AGAINST OUR COUNTRY.
02:12:33WE STOOD SIDE BY SIDE.
02:12:37IT WAS IMPORTANT. JUST LIKE ON THAT DAY, WHEN THE
02:12:41PLANES WERE DIVERTED HERE, I
02:12:44HEARD LOTS OF TALK ABOUT ORDINARY PEOPLE.
02:12:48I THINK THEY WERE EXTRAORDINARY.
02:12:51THEY WERE EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE
02:12:53DOING EXTRAORDINARY THINGS.
02:12:57WE HAVE A POSITIVE VIEW OF HUMAN
02:13:02BEINGS. WE BELIEVE THEY'RE CREATED. THEY WERE CREATED WITH SPECIAL
02:13:06GIFTS AND SPECIAL TALENTS.
02:13:08IT'S THE EXPECTATIONS.
02:13:14THINK ABOUT THE SACRIFICES, THE
02:13:17EXTRAORDINARY THINGS THAT PEOPLE DID ALMOST IMMEDIATELY.
02:13:21THEY THEN TALKED ABOUT, AND THE
02:13:23LEGACY HERE MOVING FORWARD,
02:13:28FIRST RESPONDERS, THAT FIRST PLANE GOES INTO THE TOWER.
02:13:31WE HAVE FIRST RESPONDERS, EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE DOING
02:13:35EXTRAORDINARY THINGS. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT WAS
02:13:39GOING ON IN THE PENTAGON AFTER
02:13:44THE FIRST PLANE CRASHED IN THERE. PEOPLE WERE GOING IN TO HELP THEIR COWORKERS.
02:13:47PEOPLE WERE RUSHING FROM THE
02:13:48BACK OF A PLANE TO TAKE A PLANE
02:13:57DOWN. IN A FEW HOURS LATER, THE CALL
02:14:00CAME TO GANDER TO DO
02:14:06EXTRAORDINARY THINGS, HOST
02:14:12PEOPLE COMING OFF OF A PLANE
02:14:14THAT ALMOST DOUBLED YOUR
02:14:18POPULATION.
02:14:19SOMEBODY GETS THE BEDS, CHECK.
02:14:23FOOD, CHECK. MEDICINE, CHECK.
02:14:26ROOF OVER THEIR HEAD, CHECK.
02:14:28YOU DID IT ALL.
02:14:31YOU STOOD UP, YOU DID WHAT WAS NEEDED TO BE DONE.
02:14:34THAT IS THE LEGACY, THAT IS THE
02:14:36MESSAGE TO YOUNG PEOPLE.
02:14:40YOUNG PEOPLE WILL EXPERIENCE THE
02:14:42SAME THING THAT WE HAVE.
02:14:45WE HAD 9/11.
02:14:47WE HAD THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN
02:14:51KENNEDY, THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR.
02:14:54WHAT MESSAGE DO WE TAKE?
02:14:56WHAT LEGACY DO WE HAVE?
02:14:59WHAT LEGACY DOES GANDER COME TO
02:15:04SYMBOLIZE TODAY, THAT WHEN
02:15:07HORRIFIC THINGS HAPPEN, WHEN MAN
02:15:13TREATS MAN SO BADLY, GOOD WILL
02:15:21WIN.
02:15:22YOU REPRESENT THAT TO THE WORLD
02:15:26TODAY. I CAN ONLY THINK WHAT A LEGACY
02:15:29THAT IS, THAT YOU REPRESENT
02:15:33KINDNESS, HUMANITY TO THE WORLD
02:15:37TODAY. WHEN PEOPLE IN AMERICA HEAR THE
02:15:39WORD GANDER, OUR HEARTS SOFTEN,
02:15:48AND WE JUST QUIETLY MURMUR
02:15:52ANOTHER PRAYER AND ONCE MORE WE
02:15:56SAY THANK YOU AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED
02:16:00STATES GOVERNMENT, THANK YOU TO
02:16:02THE PEOPLE OF GANDER.
02:16:05THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP.
02:16:07THANK YOU FOR STANDING UP TO THE
02:16:10NATION OF CANADA. THANK YOU.
02:16:13THANK YOU FOR BEING A PARTNER.
02:16:16THANK YOU FOR THE SHARED
02:16:18SACRIFICES THAT YOU HAVE MADE
02:16:21WITH US.
02:16:23NOT ONLY AFTER 9/11, IT WAS
02:16:25CANADIANS THAT MADE THE
02:16:27SACRIFICE, THAT LIBERATED MY
02:16:30PARENTS IN THE NETHERLANDS.
02:16:34WE HAVE A LONG LEGACY OF
02:16:35BRINGING GOOD TO THE WORLD,
02:16:40SACR SACRIFICING AND FOR THAT, I SAY THANK YOU.
02:16:44THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:16:46[APPLAUSE]
02:17:08[♪♪]
02:17:28[♪♪] ♪ I WAS TOLD WHEN I WAS YOUNG ♪
02:17:32♪ BE KIND TO EVERYONE ♪
02:17:35♪ NOT TO JUDGE OTHERS AROUND
02:17:40US ♪
02:17:50♪ THERE ARE GOOD STORIES IN THIS
02:17:54WORLD TO TELL ♪
02:17:57♪ BUT WORDS OF IGNORANCE AND
02:18:00HATE SEEM TO RISE ♪
02:18:04♪ ABOVE ALL OTHERS ♪
02:18:08♪ IT'S EASY TO FEEL HELPLESS ♪
02:18:16♪ WHEN THERE IS NO PLACE TO BE
02:18:20HEARD ♪
02:18:24♪ CHANGING WHAT WE MEAN TO SAY ♪
02:18:29♪ LETTING ALL FEELINGS BURN ♪
02:18:43♪ COMPASSION IS THE ANSWER ♪
02:18:45♪ IT CONNECTS MY SOUL TO YOU ♪
02:18:54♪ THE MESSAGE THAT WE SING
02:18:58TOGETHER ♪
02:19:01♪ LET IT INSIDE YOUR EARS ♪
02:19:06♪ LISTENING CAN BE OUR
02:19:11SUPERPOWER ♪
02:19:15♪ WHILE WE CANNOT BE PERFECT ♪
02:19:18♪ WE CAN TRY TO LEARN EACH DAY ♪
02:19:21♪ LISTENING AND HEARING WILL
02:19:26OPEN UP OUR EYES ♪
02:19:27♪ THEN WE CAN START TO BUILD
02:19:30TOMORROW TODAY ♪
02:19:34♪ THEN WE CAN START TO BUILD
02:19:37TOMORROW TODAY ♪
02:19:46♪ TODAY ♪
02:20:02♪ BUILD TOMORROW TODAY ♪
02:20:28[APP
02:20:37[APPLAUSE]. >> JAMES HURLEY AND THE BEYOND YOUTH CHOIR. THE PEOPLE WHO SOUGHT AND FOUND
02:20:41REFUGE HERE IN GANDER, THEY ALL CAME HERE WITH THEIR INDIVIDUAL
02:20:45STORIES, THEIR INDIVIDUAL HISTORIES, AND THEIR INDIVIDUAL NAMES BUT COLLECTIVELY THEY
02:20:49BECAME KNOWN AS THE PLANE PEOPLE.
02:20:51TODAY, WE HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF
02:20:53HEARING FROM ONE OF THOSE PLANE PEOPLE, SOMEONE WHO'S JOURNEY
02:20:56BROUGHT HIM HERE IN SEPTEMBER,
02:21:012001, UNEXPECTEDLY, BUT WHOSE CONNECTION TO GANDER HAS CONTINUED LONG AFTER HE RETURNED HOME.
02:21:05PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING
02:21:09RAPHAEL. [APPLAUSE].
02:21:11>> THANK YOU.
02:21:16THANK YOU. I HAVE COME FROM AWAY.
02:21:19I AM A PLANE PERSON AND 25 YEARS
02:21:21AFTER THAT FATEFUL DAY, I STAND BEFORE YOU IN THE VERY PLACE
02:21:25WHERE MY LIFE WAS CHANGED. IT WAS A DAY THAT FOR MOST
02:21:29PEOPLE HAS GONE DOWN IN INFAMY.
02:21:32I, HOWEVER, HAVE A DIFFERENT STORY.
02:21:35IT BEGAN WHEN A 17-YEAR-OLD BOY
02:21:37BOARDED A FLIGHT WITH HIS FATHER.
02:21:40IT WAS CONTINENTAL FLIGHT 45
02:21:43FROM MILAN TO NEWARK. HE HAD JUST MOVED AWAY FROM HIS
02:21:46FAMILY TO STUDY CLASSICAL MUSIC,
02:21:52IN ONE OF ITALY'S FINEST CONSERVATORIES. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SHORT
02:21:56VACATION AT HOME TO VISIT FAMILY BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF A NEW
02:21:58CHAPTER OF HIS LIFE.
02:22:00HALFWAY THROUGH THE 8-HOUR FLIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
02:22:03ATLANTIC, THE CAPTAIN ADDRESSED US ON THE LOUD SPEAKER, WE HAVE
02:22:07TO DEVIATE AND LAND IN
02:22:09NEWFOUNDLAND DUE TO EXCESSIVE AIR TRAFFIC.
02:22:12HE MADE IT SOUND SO ROUTINE. [LAUGHTER].
02:22:15>> WHEN WE LANDED THERE, WE WERE
02:22:181 OF 38 FLIGHTS, ALL PARKED WITH
02:22:22IMPRESSIVE PRECISION. NOW I KNOW THE CAPTAIN OF THAT
02:22:25FLIGHT NICK IS HERE WITH US TODAY AND I CAN ATTEST TO HIS
02:22:29VIRTUOUSTY AND THE PRECISION AND
02:22:31GRACE FOR WHICH HE MOVED THAT
02:22:36AIRCRAFT.
02:22:37[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] .
02:22:55>> WE SPENT ABOUT 30 HOURS ON THE PLANE BEFORE WE WOULD HAVE
02:22:58TO DISEMBARK, LEAVING OUR
02:23:03LUGGAGE ONBOARD. NONE OF US UNDERSTOOD WHAT HAPPENED.
02:23:07ON SEPTEMBER 12TH, THEY PROCESSED US IN GANDER, STAMPED
02:23:10OUR PASSPORTS, AND AFTER SEVERAL
02:23:12HOURS SITTING AROUND LIKE REF
02:23:15REFUGEES, IT WAS OUR TURN TO BOARD THE FIRST SCHOOL BUS THAT
02:23:17WOULD TAKE US TO LEWISPORT. IT WAS THERE THAT WE SAW FOR THE
02:23:21FIRST TIME THE HORRIFIC IMAGES THAT HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD.
02:23:24MY MOTHER WHO WAS BACK IN NEW
02:23:26JERSEY KEPT CALLING CONTINENTAL
02:23:30AIRLINES ASKING WHERE HER HUSBAND AND SON WERE OR IF THEY
02:23:33WERE ALIVE.
02:23:34SHE WAS DISTRAUGHT TO RECEIVE
02:23:37THE COLD ANSWER, WE CANNOT TELL YOU. AS SOON AS WE HAD THE CHANCE, MY
02:23:41FATHER AND I CALLED HOME AND I WILL NEVER FORGET THE SOUND OF
02:23:45HER WEEPING CRIES OF JOY WHEN SHE HEARD MY VOICE.
02:23:48WE SPENT THREE NIGHTS SLEEPING
02:23:52AT THE PEWS OF THE PENTECOSTAL
02:23:55CHURCH UNTIL THE AMERICAN AIR SPACE REOPENED.
02:23:58PHILADELPHIA, BROTHERLY LOVE.
02:24:00THE GOOD PEOPLE OF LEWISPORT
02:24:03GAVE US THE CLOTHES OFF THEIR BACKS.
02:24:05THEY DONATED UNDERWEAR, SHIRTS,
02:24:08PANTS, TOOTHBRUSHES, TOILETRIES, FOOD.
02:24:11THEY COOKED FOR US. THEY TOOK US BOWLING. THEY DROVE US AROUND.
02:24:15THEY INVITED US INTO THEIR HOMES.
02:24:18NOBODY WAS A STRANGER.
02:24:20EVERYONE WAS A FRIEND.
02:24:22EVERYONE WAS FAMILY.
02:24:24AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, THE CHURCH WHERE WE WERE STAYING HAD
02:24:28A GORGEOUS YAMAHA GRAND PIANO.
02:24:31I'M A MUSICIAN, SO I SAT DOWN AND PLAYED.
02:24:34I PLAYED CLASSICAL MUSIC, POP
02:24:36SONGS, TOOK REQUESTS, AND IMPROVISED PIECES AT THE PIANO
02:24:40FOR HOURS TO CONSOLE THE STRANDED PLANE PEOPLE AND
02:24:44ENTERTAIN THE LOCALS. IT'S IN THOSE DAYS THAT I
02:24:47LEARNED THE POWER OF MUSIC TO
02:24:50BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER, TO LIFT
02:24:52PEOPLE UP, TO HEAL, AND OFFER A
02:24:56MESSAGE OF HOPE IN DARK TIMES.
02:24:58SINCE THEN, I TRIED TO CAPTURE THIS SPIRIT, THIS SENSE OF
02:25:02HUMANITY IN ALL THE MUSIC I CREATE.
02:25:05ON THE DAYS FOLLOWING SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, WHILE MOST
02:25:09OF THE WORLD LOOKED ON IN HORROR
02:25:11AT UNSPEAKABLE ATROCITIES, I
02:25:14WITNESSED SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
02:25:16THE DEEPEST ACTS OF KINDNESS AND
02:25:19GENEROSITY IMAGINABLE.
02:25:22IN NEWFOUNDLAND, I LEARNED WHAT
02:25:24BROTHERHOOD MEANT, WHAT ALTRUISM LOOKED LIKE, THE VALUE OF A
02:25:28HELPING HAND, A STRANGER'S SMILE.
02:25:32MY PILGRIMAGE IS NOW COMPLETE, I EXPRESS GRATITUDE TO YOU ALL IN
02:25:36THE BEST WAY I KNOW, THROUGH MUSIC. YOU ARE ABOUT TO HEAR THE
02:25:40CANADIAN PREMIER OF MY COMPOSITION, A REFLECTION OF LIGHT.
02:25:43IT'S THE CULMINATION OF A
02:25:4625-YEAR EFFORT TO RETURN TO THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE MORE OF AN
02:25:49IMPACT ON THE LIFE OF A 17-YEAR-OLD BOY THAN YOU WILL
02:25:53EVER KNOW. THE LYRICS SUM IT UP.
02:25:56WHEN HOPE IS FLEETING, WILL YOU
02:25:58CHOOSE TO BE A REFLECTION OF
02:26:00LIGHT AND NOT YOUR SHADOW.
02:26:09SORRY. [APPLAUSE].
02:26:11>> THANK YOU.
02:26:17AND IF YOU FIND YOUR HEARTACHING
02:26:20FOR MORE, WILL YOU REACH OUT
02:26:22YOUR HAND TO FIND IT WAS ALWAYS THERE.
02:26:26MY FRIENDS, I KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME DARK CLOUDS OBSCURING
02:26:29THE RELATIONS BETWEEN OUR TWO GREAT NATIONS AT THIS POINT AND
02:26:32I HOPE THAT WE TOGETHER CAN LOOK
02:26:35BEYOND POLITICAL BRANDING AND
02:26:38MESSAGES, TO BE A REFLECTION OF OUR LIGHT BECAUSE IN THE WORDS
02:26:42OF EDITH STEIN, OUT OF THE HE
02:26:45AND SHE AND YOU AND ME COMES THE
02:26:50WE, A SUBJECT MUCH STRONGER THAN
02:26:51ANY OF THE OTHERS ON THEIR OWN.
02:26:55[APP
02:27:05[APPLAUSE]. >> MY FRIENDS, MY SISTERS, MY BROTHERS, NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE
02:27:09NEXT 25 YEARS HAS IN STORE BUT
02:27:12ONE THING I DO KNOW, I HAVE COME
02:27:14FROM AWAY AND NOW I HAVE COME
02:27:18BACK. WHEREVER AWAY BRINGS ME, I BRING YOU WITH ME.
02:27:20THANK YOU.
02:27:22[APPLAUSE]
02:27:43[♪♪]
02:27:58[♪♪] ♪ HOPE IS FLEETING ♪
02:28:01♪ WILL YOU CHOOSE TO SEE A
02:28:03REFLECTION OF MINE ♪
02:28:05♪ AND NOT YOUR SHADOW ♪
02:28:19♪ WILL YOU CHOOSE TO BE NEAR ♪
02:28:28♪ WILL YOU NURTURE IT ♪
02:28:45♪ REACH OUT YOUR HAND TO FIND IT
02:28:49WAS ALWAYS THERE ♪
02:28:54♪ WHEN HOPE IS FLEETING ♪
02:29:03♪ WILL YOU CHOOSE TO SEE ♪
02:29:07♪ A REFLECTION OF LIGHT ♪
02:29:09♪ AND NOT YOUR SHADOW ♪
02:29:15♪ AND NOT YOUR SHADOW ♪
02:29:21♪ AND IF YOU FIND YOUR HEART
02:29:27ACHING FOR ME ♪ ♪ WILL YOU REACH OUT YOUR HAND
02:29:29TO FIND IT WAS ALWAYS THERE ♪
02:29:44♪ WILL YOU CHOOSE TO SEE ♪
02:29:48♪ A REFLECTION OF LIGHT ♪
02:29:52♪ DISPEL YOUR SHADOW ♪
02:30:00♪ AND IF YOU FIND YOUR HEART
02:30:04ACHING FOR ME ♪
02:30:07♪ WILL YOU REACH OUT YOUR HAND ♪
02:30:14♪ WILL YOU REACH OUT YOUR HAND ♪
02:30:21♪ TO FIND IT WAS ALWAYS THERE ♪
02:30:33♪ WHEN HOPE IS FLEETING ♪
02:30:37♪ WILL YOU CHOOSE TO SEE ♪
02:30:44♪ WILL YOU CHOOSE TO BE ♪
02:30:50♪ A REFLECTION OF LIGHT ♪
02:31:14[APPLAUSE].
02:31:43>> WHAT A GIFT.
02:31:48IN THE HOURS FOLLOWING THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF
02:31:51SEPTEMBER 11TH, CANADA FACED AN
02:31:53EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT OF UNCERTAINTY.
02:31:56AS PRIME MINISTER AT THE TIME, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WAS AT THE
02:32:00CENTRE OF CANADA'S RESPONSE FACING IMPOSSIBLE DECISIONS AT
02:32:04AN IMPOSSIBLE MOMENT. CANADA OPENED ITS AIR SPACE AND
02:32:06THE COMMUNITY TO THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, THE COUNTRY STOOD FIRMLY
02:32:10BEHIND THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
02:32:12IN THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED, THE PRIME MINISTER AND U.S.
02:32:16PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH SPOKE ABOUT THE STRENGTH OF THE
02:32:20FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN OUR TWO COUNTRIES. PRESIDENT BUSH RECALLED ONE OF THE FIRST CALLS HE RECEIVED
02:32:24AFTER THE ATTACKS WAS FROM THE PRIME MINISTER OFFERING HIS
02:32:27SUPPORT AND CONDOLENCES, A CALL
02:32:30THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT COMPARED TO GETTING A PHONE CALL
02:32:32FROM A BROTHER.
02:32:36WELL --
02:32:39[APP
02:32:46[APPLAUSE]. >> WE DON'T GET A PHONE CALL TODAY. THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER MADE
02:32:50THE TRIP. SO PLEASE WELCOME BACK TO GANDER
02:32:52THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JEAN
02:33:18CHRETIEN.
02:33:18>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:33:25WHAT AN AFTERNOON.
02:33:32[SPEAKING FRENCH][VOICE OF TRANSLATOR]: YOUR EXCELLENCY.
02:33:36PREMIER OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND
02:33:42LABRADOR. AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES
02:33:45OF AMERICA.
02:33:47YOUR WORSHIP AND MINISTER OF
02:33:52FISHERIES, MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
02:33:54AND SENATORS HERE PRESENT,
02:33:59LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. [END OF TRANSLATION] THOSE OF US
02:34:02WHO WERE ALIVE THEN WILL NEVER
02:34:05FORGET THAT TERRIBLE DAY 25
02:34:11YEARS AGO.
02:34:11A TERRORIST ATTACK, DOZENS DEAD,
02:34:15OUR NEIGHBOURS, OUR CLOSEST
02:34:18FRIENDS UNDER ATTACK.
02:34:22IT WAS LIKE A NIGHTMARE, ONE
02:34:26THAT WE WILL NEVER FORGET, ONE
02:34:29THAT WE CAN NEVER ERASE.
02:34:33THERE IS ANOTHER MEMORY FROM
02:34:36THAT SAME DAY, A MEMORY OF THE
02:34:40PEOPLE, THE ENTIRE NATION COMING
02:34:43TOGETHER AS ONE TO STAND WITH
02:34:49OUR FRIENDS AND TO OFFER THEM
02:34:55SAFETY AND SUPPORT AND
02:34:59SOLIDARITY. IT IS A DAY WHEN WE SAW THE
02:35:03WORST OF HUMANITY AND THE VERY
02:35:09BEST. ONE OF THE VERY BEST MOMENTS WAS
02:35:12HERE IN GANDER.
02:35:15WE THOUGHT A MOMENT OF
02:35:17VISITATION, A COMMUNITY OF
02:35:2010,000 WELCOMED 6,500 PEOPLE.
02:35:29WHEN 14 OTHER CITIES ACROSS
02:35:31CANADA RECEIVED 200 PLANES THAT
02:35:36COULD NOT LAND IN THE UNITED
02:35:41STATES. NO COMMUNITY INCREASED ITS
02:35:44POPULATION LIKE GANDER.
02:35:48[LAUGHTER]. >> OVERNIGHT, IT BECAME
02:35:51TWO-THIRDS LARGER. [LAUGHTER].
02:35:54>> FAMILIES OPENED THEIR HOMES
02:36:00AND THEY ALSO OPENED THEIR
02:36:07HEARTS.
02:36:09BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT I CALL THE CANADIAN WAY.
02:36:12WHEN OUR FRIENDS ARE IN TROUBLE,
02:36:16WE DON'T HESITATE, WE ACT.
02:36:20WE DO THE DECENT THING.
02:36:22WE DO THE HUMAN THING AND THE
02:36:26RIGHT THING. THAT IS WHAT THE PEOPLE OF
02:36:30GANDER DID AND IT IS WHAT PEOPLE
02:36:34ACROSS DID IN CANADA AFTER 9/11.
02:36:41AS PRIME MINISTER, I WAS PROUD
02:36:42OF THE WAY OUR COUNTRY STEPPED
02:36:53UP, I WAS PROUD OF OUR PEOPLE AND OUR GOVERNMENT. THREE DAYS AFTER THAT TERRIBLE
02:36:57DATE, MORE THAN 100,000
02:36:59CANADIANS RELIED ON PARLIAMENT
02:37:02HILL TO SHOW OUR SOLIDARITY WITH
02:37:05THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
02:37:08OUT IN THE OPEN, UNAFRAID, THE
02:37:17PRIME MINISTER, THE GOVERNOR
02:37:19GENERAL, AND THE AMERICAN
02:37:22AMBASSADOR, AND DOZENS AND
02:37:25DOZENS OF ORDINARY CANADIANS.
02:37:28IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST MOVING
02:37:30EMOTIONAL MOMENTS OF MY LIFE.
02:37:363 MINUTES OF COMPLETE SILENCE.
02:37:41YOU COULD HEAR A PIN DROP.
02:37:48OUR FRIENDS WERE HURT.
02:37:49WE WERE HURTING WITH THEM.
02:37:55[SPEAKING FRENCH][VOICE OF TRANSLATOR]: THAT FRIDAY
02:37:58MORNING, RIGHT ACROSS THE GLOBE,
02:38:03WE WANTED TO OFFER OUR
02:38:07CONDOLENCES AND OUR SOLIDARITY
02:38:09TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
02:38:13STATES AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME
02:38:15HERE IN CANADA, WE DID WHAT NO
02:38:17OTHER COUNTRY DID.
02:38:20100,000 PEOPLE CAME TO
02:38:23PARLIAMENT HILL.
02:38:25AT THE SAME TIME, ON U.S.
02:38:29TELEVISION, THEY WERE SHOWING
02:38:31WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN
02:38:35WASHINGTON. HALF WAS WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN
02:38:39CANADA, 100,000 PEOPLE OUTSIDE
02:38:45AS ELSEWHERE IN WASHINGTON IN
02:38:49PARTICULAR, EVERYTHING WAS
02:38:51OCCURRING IN A CATHEDRAL,
02:38:55SURROUNDED BY AMERICANS AND
02:38:58POLICE OFFICERS.
02:39:03[END OF TRANSLATION] AND I WAS PROUD THAT IT WAS MY GOVERNMENT,
02:39:06THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA THAT
02:39:07MOVED THE MOTION TO INVOKE
02:39:11ARTICLE V OF THE NATO CHARTER,
02:39:17THE FIRST AND ONLY TIME IN THE
02:39:18HISTORY OF NATO IT WAS EVER
02:39:22USED.
02:39:24ARTICLE V SAYS THAT AN ATTACK ON
02:39:27ONE NATO COUNTRY IS AN ATTACK ON
02:39:28ALL OF NATO.
02:39:32OUR CLOSEST FRIEND WAS ATTACKED.
02:39:37WE SAID THAT WAS AN ATTACK ON US
02:39:42TOO.
02:39:42WE FOUGHT BACKSIDE BY SIDE.
02:39:58[APPLAUSE].
02:39:58>> THIS WAS MORE THAN A SYMBOL,
02:40:03CANADIANS TROOPS WENT INTO
02:40:05AFGHANISTAN WITH NATO TO FIGHT
02:40:11al-QAEDA AND DESTROYED THEIR TRAINING BASES.
02:40:13IN FACT, IN THE FOLLOWING
02:40:16BASSES, 158 CANADIANS SOLDIERS
02:40:25DIED. OUR CANADIAN MILITARY IS FILLED
02:40:28WITH BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN, LIKE
02:40:32THE ONES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN
02:40:36AFGHANISTAN, OR EVEN FURTHER
02:40:38BACK LIKE THE CANADIAN SOLDIERS
02:40:41WHO STEPPED UP TO FIGHT BRAVELY
02:40:46IN WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II
02:40:49AND ALL AROUND THE WORLD WHEN WE
02:40:51WERE CALLED TO DO SO.
02:40:57THAT IS CANADA THAT CAME
02:41:00TOGETHER ON 9/11.
02:41:04THIS IS THE CANADIAN THAT WE ARE
02:41:10TODAY. IT IS WHAT THE FAMILIES OF
02:41:13GANDER SHOWED THE WORLD 25 YEARS AGO.
02:41:16IT WAS WHAT CANADIANS SHOWED THE
02:41:19WORLD EVERY DAY.
02:41:22AGAIN, BECAUSE IT'S THE CANADIAN WAY.
02:41:24SO, I WOULD LIKE TO CONCLUDE
02:41:27WITH THIS PERSONAL MESSAGE.
02:41:32THE PEOPLE HERE TODAY, THE
02:41:35PEOPLE ACROSS CANADA, THEY KNOW ME.
02:41:37I HAVE BEEN AROUND --
02:41:42[LAUGHTER].
02:41:42>> A WHILE.
02:41:46[APP
02:41:57[APPLAUSE]. >> THEY KNOW I LIKE TO SPEAK MY
02:42:01MIND. [LAUGHTER]. >> TODAY I AM NOT PRESENTING
02:42:04HERE ANY GOVERNMENT.
02:42:09I AM JUST A FORMER PRIME
02:42:11MINISTER, 92 YEARS OLD, AND A
02:42:14VERY PROUD CANADIAN.
02:42:18[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE].
02:42:27>> BUT I HAVE SEEN A FEW THINGS
02:42:29IN MY LIFETIME AND I KNOW THIS
02:42:31COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE FROM
02:42:37COAST TO COAST TO COAST.
02:42:38I HAVE A MESSAGE FOR AMERICAN
02:42:46FRIENDS. YES, CANADA IS GENEROUS, OPEN
02:42:50COUNTRY AND CANADIANS ARE
02:42:51TOLERANT AND KIND, BUT NEVER
02:42:56MISTAKE OUR GENEROSITY FOR
02:43:03WEAKNESS.
02:43:06[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE].
02:43:23>> NEVER MISTAKE OUR TOLERANCE
02:43:28FOR LACK OF DETERMINATION.
02:43:32NEVER, NEVER MISTAKE OUR
02:43:35KINDNESS FOR SOFTNESS.
02:43:38WE KNOW WHO WE ARE.
02:43:40WE ARE PROUD OF IT, BUILDING A
02:43:44COUNTRY LIKE THIS, WITH THIS
02:43:48CLIMATE, AND THIS GEOGRAPHY IS A
02:43:52SIGN OF TOUGHNESS, NOT OF
02:43:55WEAKNESS. [LAUGHTER].
02:43:58[APP
02:44:07[APPLAUSE]. >> WELCOMING PEOPLE FROM ALL
02:44:09OVER THE WORLD, CARING FOR EACH
02:44:14OTHER, INCLUDING THE WEAKEST IN
02:44:17SOCIETY IS A SIGN OF STRENGTH.
02:44:27[APPLAUSE]. >> WE EMBRACE OUR FRIENDS AND WE
02:44:30HELP THEM IN THEIR MOMENT OF
02:44:35NEED, BUT WE BOW TO NO ONE AND
02:44:43THE MORE WE ARE INSULTED OR
02:44:46THREATENED AND ABUSED, THE MORE
02:44:49WE WILL STAND UP FOR OURSELVES
02:44:52AND STAND UNITED.
02:44:56[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE].
02:44:58>> AND I SAY THAT NOT IN ANGER
02:45:03BUT AS ONE FRIEND TO ANOTHER.
02:45:07FRIENDS NEED TO BE HONEST WITH
02:45:11EACH OTHER, JUST AS THE PEOPLE
02:45:14IN GANDER AND ANYWHERE ELSE IN
02:45:19NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR.
02:45:20THEY WILL GIVE YOU THE SHIRT OFF
02:45:23THEIR BACKS LIKE THEY DID 25
02:45:32YEARS AGO BUT THEY WILL ALWAYS
02:45:34SHOW YOU THE RESPECT OF TELLING
02:45:37YOU THE TRUTH.
02:45:40SO MY FRIENDS, HERE IS TO TRUTH,
02:45:47TO RESPECT, TO FRIENDSHIP, AND
02:45:51TO GOOD NEIGHBOURS.
02:45:56[SPEAKING FRENCH][VOICE OF TRANSLATOR]: LONG LIVE THE
02:45:58UNITED STATES AND LONG LIVE
02:46:02CANADA. [END OF TRANSLATION].
02:46:05[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] .
02:46:25[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
02:46:58.
02:46:58>> HOW DO YOU FOLLOW THAT?
02:47:02THANK YOU MR. CHRETIEN FOR
02:47:06MAKING THIS TRIP. WE HEARD STORIES OF COURAGE,
02:47:09COMPASSION, AND KINDNESS. WE REMEMBERED THOSE WHO WE HAVE
02:47:12LOST AND HONOUR THOSE WHO HAVE
02:47:15SERVED AND WE CELEBRATE
02:47:17FRIENDSHIPS THAT GREW FROM AN UNEXPECTED MOMENT IN HISTORY.
02:47:21PERHAPS THE GREATEST LESSON IS A SIMPLE ONE, EACH OF US HAS THE
02:47:24ABILITY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, THAT WE CAN CHOOSE KINDNESS WHEN
02:47:27IT IS NEEDED MOST, AND IF WE EACH DO OUR PART, WE CAN MAKE
02:47:31THE WORLD A LITTLE BETTER AND A
02:47:33LITTLE BRIGHTER, WHEN EVERYTHING LOOKS SO DARK.
02:47:35SO ON THAT NOTE.
02:47:44[APPLAUSE]. >> SO ON THAT NOTE, WE'RE MOVING TO THE BIG FINALE.
02:47:47WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE OUR SERVICE WITH A SONG ABOUT EXACTLY THAT,
02:47:50THE HOPE THAT THROUGH OUR WORDS,
02:47:53OUR ACTIONS, AND OUR COMPASSION FOR ONE ANOTHER, WE CAN HELP
02:47:56MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE. SO PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING
02:47:59BACK THE ENNIS SISTERS, WHO WILL
02:48:01BE JOINED BY OUR PERFORMERS AND
02:48:04CHOIR FOR THE GRAND FINALE, SING
02:48:07THE WORLD BETTER. LET THIS BE THE MESSAGE TODAY
02:48:11AND OUR PROMISE FOR TOMORROW.
02:48:12[APPLAUSE]
02:48:30♪ AS SUNSETS GOLD INTO THE
02:48:34DUSK ♪ ♪ AND EVENING SHADOWS FALL ON US ♪
02:48:37♪ WE CAN FIND OUR WAY BACK TO
02:48:40THE TRUTH ♪
02:48:43♪ IN THE DARKNESS IT'S STILL
02:48:47SHINING THROUGH ♪
02:48:53♪ THERE IS A RISING SOUND ♪
02:48:55♪ I CAN FEEL IT ALL AROUND US ♪ ♪ WHEN OUR VOICES COME TOGETHER ♪
02:48:59♪ WE CAN SING THE WORLD BETTER ♪
02:49:02♪ HOPE IS ALWAYS FOUND ♪
02:49:18♪ WHEN THE SOUNDS COME
02:49:22TOGETHER ♪ ♪ WE CAN SING THE WORLD BETTER ♪
02:49:25♪ SOME DAYS IT SEEMS WE COME
02:49:31APART ♪
02:49:31♪ BUILD THE WORLD WITH A BROKEN
02:49:35HEART ♪
02:49:43♪ IT'S NOT TOO LATE FOR US ♪ ♪ THERE IS A RISING SOUND ♪
02:49:46♪ I CAN FEEL IT ALL AROUND US ♪
02:49:50♪ WHEN THE WORLD COMES
02:49:54TOGETHER ♪ ♪ WE CAN SING THE WORLD BETTER ♪
02:49:57♪ HOPE IS ALWAYS FOUND IN OUR
02:50:01SONG FOREVER ♪ ♪ WHEN OUR VOICES COME
02:50:04TOGETHER ♪
02:50:05♪ WE CAN SING THE WORLD BETTER ♪
02:50:13[♪♪]
02:50:14♪ SING THE WORLD BETTER ♪
02:50:20[♪♪]
02:50:20♪ SING THE WORLD BETTER ♪
02:50:26[♪♪]
02:50:27♪ SING THE WORLD BETTER ♪
02:50:35[♪♪]
02:50:40♪ STARS FLICKER IN THE NIGHT ♪
02:50:45♪ WE WILL BE THE SINGERS TO THE
02:50:51SONG ♪
02:50:51♪ LET OUR VOICES CARRY ON ♪
02:51:02♪ THERE IS A RISING SOUND ♪
02:51:04♪ I CAN FEEL IT ALL AROUND US ♪
02:51:06♪ WHEN OUR VOICES COME TOGETHER ♪
02:51:09♪ WE CAN SING THE WORLD BETTER ♪
02:51:13♪ HOPE IS ALWAYS FOUND ♪
02:51:17♪ SOMEWHERE IN OUR SONG FOREVER ♪
02:51:21♪ WHEN OUR VOICES COME TOGETHER ♪
02:51:22♪ WE CAN SING THE WORLD BETTER ♪
02:51:30[♪♪] ♪ WHEN OUR VOICES COME TOGETHER ♪
02:51:33♪ SING THE WORLD BETTER ♪
02:51:36[♪♪] ♪ ♪ WHEN OUR VOICES COME TOGETHER ♪
02:51:39♪ SING THE WORLD BETTER ♪
02:51:45[♪♪] ♪ WHEN OUR VOICES COME TOGETHER ♪
02:51:48♪ SING THE WORLD BETTER ♪
02:51:55[♪♪]
02:51:57[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] .
02:52:32>> I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN HAVE A BETTER ENDING THAN THAT.
02:52:34WHAT A GIFT, ALL OF THIS IS JUST
02:52:38WONDERFUL, ALL THESE PERFORMANCES HAVE BEEN
02:52:40THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE THING. LOOK, YOU CAN ALL SIT DOWN.
02:52:44WE'RE GOING TO SAY GOODBYE. I KNOW. IT'S A MOMENT THAT BRINGS YOU TO
02:52:48YOUR FEET. SO MANY PEOPLE PLAYED A PART IN BRINGING THIS SERVICE TO LIFE
02:52:52AND SOME QUICK THANK YOU IF YOU CAN INDULGE ME.
02:52:56CBC, ROGERS TELEVISION, ALL OF
02:53:00THE MEDIA SHARIING THIS TODAY,
02:53:03BRINGING IT TO THE PEOPLE THAT COULD NOT BE HERE TODAY, TO
02:53:07EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED IN TODAY'S SERVICE, THANK YOU FOR
02:53:09SHARING YOUR TIME, YOUR TALENTS,
02:53:12AND YOUR STORIES. TO THE 9/11 STEERING COMMITTEE,
02:53:16THANK YOU FOR YOUR COUNTLESS HOURS OF MEETINGS AND
02:53:19PREPARATION THE PAST MONTH, TO THE HOTELS FOR GIVING US A PLACE
02:53:22TO STAY, WHICH IS A GANDER
02:53:25SPECIALTY I SHOULD ADD, RIGHT? TO THE STAFF OF THE STEEL
02:53:29COMMUNITY CENTRE, THE TOWN OF GANDER, THEY TURNED AN ARENA,
02:53:32WHICH WAS A WALK-IN FREEZER FOR
02:53:35DONATED FOOD IN THE DAYS AFTER
02:53:36THE TRAGEDY, A SPACE WORTHY OF
02:53:40TODAY. [APPLAUSE].
02:53:42>> YES, THANK YOU.
02:53:49AND THEY WORKED BEHIND THE SCENES, THEY HAVE ALL THESE
02:53:53SPECIAL EVENTS THROUGHOUT THIS SPECIAL WEEK THAT THE COMMUNITY RUNS SO WELL.
02:53:56THEIR DEDICATION HAS NOT GONE
02:53:59UNNOTICED AND GREAT AUDIO, THANK YOU FOR YOUR EXPERTISE AND
02:54:03GUIDANCE AND MAKING THIS
02:54:06MAGNIFICENT SOUND HEARD BY EVERYONE. [APPLAUSE].
02:54:09>> THE LIST COULD GO ON BUT
02:54:12SIMPLY, THE SIMPLEST AND MOST MEANINGFUL TO SAY IS THIS, TO THANK YOU.
02:54:16THANK ALL OF YOU. EVERYONE WHO IS HERE WITH US
02:54:20TODAY, EVERYONE WATCHING FROM
02:54:20NEAR AND FAR, YOUR PRESENCE
02:54:26HELPS GIVE US A REMINDER OF WHAT
02:54:28IS IMPORTANT IN THIS WORLD. 25 YEARS AGO, PEOPLE IN GANDER
02:54:32AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES SHOWED US WHAT IT MEANS TO HELP
02:54:35SOMEONE SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY NEED HELP AND THAT SPIRIT CONTINUES
02:54:38TODAY THROUGH THE PAY IT FORWARD
02:54:469/11 FOUNDATION LED YEAR-ROUND
02:54:48BY ONE OF THE PLANE PERSONS,
02:54:51KEVIN AND HIS WONDERFUL COMMITTEE.
02:54:53TODAY, FITTINGLY MARKS CANADA'S
02:54:55NATIONAL DAY OF SERVICE.
02:54:58I ENCOURAGE YOU TO LEAVE HERE AND DO ONE SIMPLE ACT OF
02:55:02KINDNESS FOR SOMEONE ELSE, OPEN A DOOR, MAKE A PHONE CALL, HELP
02:55:05A NEIGHBOUR, BUY SOMEONE A
02:55:07COFFEE, OFFER A KIND WORD.
02:55:09IT MAY BRIGHTEN SOMEONE ELSE'S DAY.
02:55:12IT MIGHT BRIGHTEN YOURS AS WELL. 25 YEARS AGO, KINDNESS WAS
02:55:15OFFERED FREELY TO STRANGERS, TODAY WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO
02:55:18CARRY THAT KINDNESS FORWARD. PLEASE STAND ONCE AGAIN IF YOU
02:55:22ARE ABLE FOR THE MARCH OFF OF
02:55:23THE FLAGS AND THE FIRST
02:55:27RESPONDERS.
02:56:22[♪♪]
02:56:40[♪♪]
02:56:49[♪♪] >> SO CONCLUDES THE 9/11
02:56:52COMMEMORATION EVENT HERE IN GANDER.
02:56:55WHAT AN EVENT.
02:56:57>> YES, VERY POWERFUL MOMENTS.
02:57:02>> CERTAINLY, THE U.S.
02:57:05AMBASSADOR PETE HOEKSTRA CAME HERE UNDER SOMETHING OF A CLOUD.
02:57:08SOME PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT HIM HERE. THERE WERE QUESTIONS ON THE
02:57:12THERE WAS A PROTEST. THERE WAS NOT FROM OUR VANTAGE
02:57:16POINT HERE LOOKING DOWN ON THE CROWD, NO ONE TURNED THEIR BACK,
02:57:19NO ONE STOOD UP, NO ONE SAID ANYTHING.
02:57:22>> IT WAS A WARM, POLITE WELCOME.
02:57:24>> THERE WAS, BUT IF THERE WAS ANYBODY THAT SAID SOMETHING, IT
02:57:27WAS THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER
02:57:30JEAN CHRETIEN WHO HAD A DOOZY OF
02:57:33A SPEECH. HE WAS KNOWN OVER HIS LONG
02:57:36CAREER, 92 YEARS OLD NOW, FOR SOME POWERFUL SPEECHES AT VERY,
02:57:40VERY IMPORTANT MOMENTS.
02:57:41TODAY IS CERTAINLY GOING TO BE ONE OF THEM.
02:57:45LET'S JUST RECAP CAROLYN SOME OF THE THINGS HE SAID.
02:57:47I HAVE A MESSAGE FOR OUR
02:57:50AMERICAN FRIENDS, JEAN CHRÉTIEN
02:57:52SAID, YES, CANADA IS A GENEROUS
02:57:55OPEN COUNTRY AND CANADIANS ARE TOLERANT AND KIND BUT NEVER
02:57:58MISTAKE OUR GENEROSITY FOR WEAKNESS AND WHAT DID THE CROWD
02:58:01DO AT THAT POINT?
02:58:03>> THEY JUMPED TO THEIR FEET. STANDING OVATION.
02:58:07IT WAS A REALLY BIG REACTION FROM THE CROWD. >> NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT.
02:58:10HE CONTINUED, BUILDING A COUNTRY LIKE THIS WITH THIS CLIMATE AND
02:58:14GEOGRAPHY IS A SIGN OF
02:58:16TOUGHNESS, NOT WEAKNESS.
02:58:19SO HE GOES ON AND SAYS, FRIENDS
02:58:21NEED TO BE HONEST WITH EACH OTHER, THEY WILL GIVE YOU THE
02:58:24SHIRT OFF THEIR BACK AS THEY DID IN THIS COMMUNITY 25 YEARS AGO,
02:58:28BUT THEY WILL ALWAYS SHOW YOU THE RESPECT OF TELLING YOU THE
02:58:32TRUTH AND THEN HE SAYS SO HERE
02:58:33IS THE TRUTH, TO RESPECT AND TO
02:58:36BE GOOD NEIGHBOURS.
02:58:39THAT WAS A REMARKABLE SPEECH
02:58:41RECEIVED QUITE WARMLY BY THE PEOPLE INSIDE THIS ARENA.
02:58:45>> AND THEN LONG LIVE CANADA OF COURSE. IT WAS QUITE THE REACTION.
02:58:48>> ABSOLUTELY. SOME LOVELY PEOPLE SAYING HELLO
02:58:50TO CAROLYN AND I HERE. OKAY, ONE OF THE THINGS WE NEED
02:58:54TO TELL YOU ABOUT, WE ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT DURING THE CEREMONY ITSELF.
02:58:58THIS IS THE SYMBOLISM OF THIS. IT'S REMARKABLE.
02:59:02SO, THE ROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND
02:59:04REGIMENT, THEY HAVE A BAND, THE CANADIAN MILITARY UNIT BASED
02:59:08HERE IN NEWFOUNDLAND.
02:59:10THEY WERE DOWN AT MARY BROWN'S
02:59:15CHICKEN, EXPLAIN TO PEOPLE. THERE ARE PEOPLE JOINING US FROM
02:59:17OUTSIDE OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR.
02:59:20>> MARY BROWN'S, THE STADIUM IN
02:59:24ST. JOHN'S IS CALLED THE MARY BROWN'S.
02:59:28IT'S BEEN AROUND FOR DECADES.
02:59:30>> I THINK OF IT AS A TIM HORTONS OF CHICKEN.
02:59:34>> THAT'S A GREAT WAY OF PUTTING IT. >> THE CANADIAN MILITARY BAND,
02:59:37THEIR BUS BREAKS DOWN.
02:59:39THERE IS ANOTHER BUS OF AMERICAN
02:59:41TOURISTS WHO ARE THERE AT THE RESTAURANT, THE BAND GOES UP TO
02:59:45THEIR DRIVER AND SAYS, WE NEED
02:59:47TO BE AT THIS CEREMONY.
02:59:49COULD YOU GIVE US A LIFT?
02:59:52AMERICAN TOURISTS THEN LOADED ALL THOSE INSTRUMENTS ON TO
02:59:55THEIR BUS, STANDING ROOM ONLY WE'RE TOLD, WE'RE TRYING TO GET
02:59:58A PICTURE, WE DON'T KNOW IF ONE
03:00:01EXISTS AT THIS POINT. THE AMERICAN TOURISTS BROUGHT
03:00:05THE CANADIAN MILITARY BAND TO THIS EVENT. THEY WERE JUST DOWN HERE DURING
03:00:08THE EVENT. WE ARE TRYING TO GET ONE OF THE
03:00:11ORGANIZERS FROM THAT TO COME UP AND CHAT WITH US.
03:00:14>> JUST A FANTASTIC THING TO HAPPEN ON THIS DAY AND YOU KNOW,
03:00:17THERE HAS BEEN SO MUCH KINDNESS
03:00:19AND GENEROSITY THAT CANADIANS
03:00:22AND NEWFOUNDLANDERS AND LABRADORIANS HAVE SHOWN TO AMERICANS AND IT WAS SUCH A
03:00:25GREAT EXAMPLE OF ALMOST RETURNING A FAVOUR, A LITTLE
03:00:29BIT, IN TERMS OF THE TONE OF ALL OF THIS. >> AND THAT HAS BEEN A THEME
03:00:33HERE, RIGHT?
03:00:33AS MUCH AS WE HAVE SEEN TIEARS F
03:00:38THE HORROR OF 9/11, WE HAVE SEEN
03:00:41SMILES FROM PEOPLE WHO WERE STRANDED HERE, RECONNECTING WITH
03:00:44THOSE WHO OFFERED THEM COMFORT AND SOMETIMES A HOME.
03:00:48WE HAVE ALSO SEEN ANGER AND FRUSTRATION. >> WE HAVE FOR SURE.
03:00:52THE HEARTBREAK TOO. I SPOKEN WITH PEOPLE WHO, YOU
03:00:55KNOW, THERE WERE TEARS IN THEIR
03:00:58EYES WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT THE STATE OF THE RELATIONSHIP
03:01:01BETWEEN CANADA AND THE U.S. I HAVE TO SAY TOO,