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Podcast: Small Changes Big Shifts
Episode: World Kindness Day with Kevin Tuerff – How One Small Town Embraced 7,000 Stranded Passengers on 9/11
Description: "My favorite definition of compassion is to engage in the suffering of others – and that's what this small town did. They had true compassion for five days on us." - Kevin Tuerff Kevin Tuerff was flying from Paris to New York City on September 11, 2001, when the plane suddenly began to appear like it was descending toward the ocean water. A few moments later, the captain came on to say there had been a terrorist attack in the United States, and the plane would be making an emergency landing in a small town in Canada called Gander. Soon af...