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AN AMAZING STORY...

Here is an amazing story from a flight attendant on Delta Flight 15, written following 9-11:

On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, we were about 5 hours out of Frankfurt, flying over the North Atlantic.

All of a sudden the curtains parted and I was told to go to the cockpit, immediately, to see the captain. As soon as I got there I noticed that the crew had that "All Business" look on their faces. The captain handed me a printed message. It was from Delta's main office in Atlanta and simply read, "All airways over the Continental United States are closed to commercial air traffic. Land ASAP at the nearest airport. Advise your destination."

No one said a word about what this could mean. We knew it was a serious situation and we needed to find terra firma quickly. The captain determined that the nearest airport was 400 miles behind us in Gander, New Foundland.

He requested approval for a route change from the Canadian traffic controller and approval was granted immediately -- no questions asked. We found out later, of course, why there was no hesitation in approving our request.

While the flight crew prepared the airplane for landing, another message arrived from Atlanta telling us about some terrorist activity in the New York area. A few minutes later word came in about the hijackings.

We decided to LIE to the passengers while we were still in the air. We told them the plane had a simple instrument problem and that we needed to land at the nearest airport in Gander , New Foundland, to have it checked out.

We promised to give more information after landing in Gander .. There was much grumbling among the passengers, but that's nothing new! Forty minutes later, we landed in Gander. Local time at Gander was 12:30 PM .... that's 11:00 AM EST.
There were already about 20 other airplanes on the ground from all over the world that had taken this detour on their way to the US.

After we parked on the ramp, the captain made the following announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, you must be wondering if all these airplanes around us have the same instrument problem as we have. The reality is that we are here for another reason."

Then he went on to explain the little bit we knew about the situation in the US. There were loud gasps and stares of disbelief. The captain informed passengers that Ground control in Gander told us to stay put.

The Canadian Government was in charge of our situation and no one was allowed to get off the aircraft. No one on the ground was allowed to come near any of the air crafts. Only airport police would come around periodically, look us over and go on to the next airplane.

In the next hour or so more planes landed and Gander ended up with 53 airplanes from all over the world, 27 of which were US commercial jets.

Meanwhile, bits of news started to come in over the aircraft radio and for the first time we learned that airplanes were flown into the World Trade Center in New York and into the Pentagon in DC.

People were trying to use their cell phones, but were unable to connect due to a different cell system in Canada . Some did get through, but were only able to get to the Canadian operator who would tell them that the lines to the U.S. were either blocked or jammed.

Sometime in the evening the news filtered to us that the World Trade Center buildings had collapsed and that a fourth hijacking had resulted in a crash. By now the passengers were emotionally and physically exhausted, not to mention frightened, but everyone stayed amazingly calm.

We had only to look out the window at the 52 other stranded aircraft to realize that we were not the only ones in this predicament.

We had been told earlier that they would be allowing people off the planes one plane at a time. At 6 PM, Gander airport told us that our turn to deplane would be 11 am the next morning.

Passengers were not happy, but they simply resigned themselves to this news without much noise and started to prepare themselves to spend the night on the airplane.

Gander had promised us medical attention, if needed, water, and lavatory servicing. And they were true to their word.

Fortunately we had no medical situations to worry about. We did have a young lady who was 33 weeks into her pregnancy. We took REALLY good care of her. The night passed without incident despite the uncomfortable sleeping arrangements.

About 10:30 on the morning of the 12th a convoy of school buses showed up. We got off the plane and were taken to the terminal where we went through Immigration and Customs and then had to register with the Red Cross.

After that we (the crew) were separated from the passengers and were taken in vans to a small hotel. We had no idea where our passengers were going. We learned from the Red Cross that the town of Gander has a population of 10,400 people and they had about 10,500 passengers to take care of from all the airplanes that were forced into Gander!

We were told to just relax at the hotel and we would be contacted when the US airports opened again, but not to expect that call for a while. We found out the total scope of the terror back home only after getting to our hotel and turning on the TV, 24 hours after it all started.

Meanwhile, we had lots of time on our hands and found that the people of Gander were extremely friendly. They started calling us the "plane people." We enjoyed their hospitality, explored the town of Gander and ended up having a pretty good time.

Two days later, we got that call and were taken back to the Gander airport. Back on the plane, we were reunited with the passengers and found out what they had been doing for the past two days.

What we found out was incredible.....

Gander and all the surrounding communities (within about a 75 Kilometer radius) had closed all high schools, meeting halls, lodges, and any other large gathering places. They converted all these facilities to mass lodging areas for all the stranded travelers. Some had cots set up, some had mats with sleeping bags and pillows set up.

ALL the high school students were required to volunteer theirtime to take care of the "guests." Our 218 passengers ended up in a town called Lewisporte, about 45 kilometers from Gander where they were put up in a high school. If any women wanted to be in a women-only facility, that was arranged. Families were kept together. All the elderly passengers were taken to private homes.

Remember that young pregnant lady? She was put up in a private home right across the street from a 24-hour Urgent Care facility.There was a dentist on call and both male and female nurses remained with the crowd for the duration.
Phone calls and e-mails to the U.S. and around the world were available to everyone once a day. During the day, passengers were offered "Excursion" trips.
Some people went on boat cruises of the lakes and harbors. Some went for hikes in the local forests.

Local bakeries stayed open to make fresh bread for the guests. Food was prepared by all the residents and brought to the schools. People were driven to restaurants of their choice and offered wonderful meals. Everyone was given tokens for local laundry mats to wash their clothes, since luggage was still on the aircraft.
In other words, every single need was met for those stranded travelers.

Passengers were crying while telling us these stories. Finally, when they were told that U.S. airports had reopened, they were delivered to the airport right on time and without a single passenger missing or late. The local Red Cross had all the information about thewhereabouts of each and every passenger and knew
which plane they needed to be on and when all the planes were leaving. They coordinated everything beautifully.

It was absolutely incredible.

When passengers came on board, it was like they had been on a cruise. Everyone knew each other by name. They were swapping stories of their stay, impressing each other with who had the better time. Our flight back to Atlanta looked like a chartered party flight. The crew just stayed out of their way. It was mind-boggling.
Passengers had totally bonded and were calling each other by their first names, exchanging phone numbers, addresses, and email addresses.

And then a very unusual thing happened.

One of our passengers approached me and asked if he could make an announcement over the PA system. We never, ever allow that. But this time was different. I said "of course" and handed him the mike. He picked up the PA and reminded everyone about what they had just gone through in the last few days.
He reminded them of the hospitality they had received at the hands of total strangers.

He continued by saying that he would like to do something in return for the good folks of Lewisporte.

"He said he was going to set up a Trust Fund under the name of DELTA 15 (our flight number). The purpose of the trust fund is to provide college scholarships for the high school students of Lewisporte.

He asked for donations of any amount from his fellow travelers. When the paper with donations got back to us with the amounts, names, phone numbers and addresses, the total was for more than $14,000!

"The gentleman, a MD from Virginia , promised to match the donations and to start the administrative work on the scholarship. He also said that he would forward this proposal to Delta Corporate and ask them to donate as well.

As I write this account, the trust fund is at more than $1.5 million and has assisted 134 students in college education.

"I just wanted to share this story because we need good stories right now. It gives me a little bit of hope to know that some people in a faraway place were kind to some strangers who literally dropped in on them.

It reminds me how much good there is in the world."

"In spite of all the rotten things we see going on in today's world this story confirms that there are still a lot of good people in the world and when things get bad, they will come forward.

***This is one of those stories that need to be SHARED. Please do so..

BY BUNMI AWOYEMI

A MUST WATCH VIDEO

FLOOD SOCIAL MEDIA WITH THIS VIDEO SO THAT THE WHOLE WORLD CAN KNOW THE TRUE CHARACTER OF HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN.

BBC'S ABUJA CORRESPONDENT WILL ROSS IN THIS INTERVIEW OF PRESIDENT JONATHAN INADVERTENTLY EXPOSED HIM AS A CONFUSED INCOHERENT INARTICULATE AND CORRUPT PRESIDENT UNWORTHY OF REELECTION AS PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA.

GEJ cannot account for N4.34 trillion out of N4.4 trillion budgeted for defense in 5 years

At his first campaign rally in Lagos, he promised to expose all past Presidents who he claimed failed to equip the army. I believe that formed the basis of WILL ROSS' question on past leaders failing to equip the army. In this interview he could not expose them. The same man that claimed General Muhammadu Buhari did not buy a single military hard ware or ammunition when he was Head of State now refused to expose the same Buhari and others he had accused before. The reason he could not is not far fetched. We the army of Buhari volunteers had exposed the fact that Buhari spent close to $1b on the equipping of the armed forces in 20 short months when he was Head of State, whereas GEJ had spent around $360m on military hardware in 5 years as President. What this means is that out of N4.4 trillion naira budgeted for defense in the last 5 years GEJ could not account for N4.34 trillion. Even the N66 billion naira he spent in 5 years was spent on outdated tokunbo military hardware that other nations had discarded. The subsequent spending from the additional $1b approved by the NASS was a collosal waste. In an exclusive investigative report by Sahara Reporters backed by leaked invoices from the ministry of defense it was revealed that GEJ awarded himself and his cronies a $500 million contract which could have been used to purchase 40 units of modern US military weaponized attack helicopters instead what was purchased was just 6 helicopters which were not equipped with weapons to fight in modern warfare. Almost all the helicopters have either been grounded or have crashed because they are a mismatch for the purposes for which the military needed them. Your guess is as good as mine where the dollar and naira rain is coming from.

Could you have imagined this degree of ridicule from BBC's WILL ROSS and the international community occasioned by clueless and corrupt leadership? He questioned how a nation could say it had no proper equipment to defend its territorial integrity since the civil war. Can you imagine a President saying Nigeria last equipped its military in the 60s during the civil war? This man will stop at nothing to ridicule this country. The clueless one forgot that the same military he is rediculing helped Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mali, Congo, Sudan and Chad end civil wars. The same army defeated the Mataisene sect during Buhari's regime and the same army ended the Nigerian Taliban insurgency. Unlike his predecessors GEJ allowed a school boy or ragtag army of insurgents that he could have crushed within days to become more and more sophisticated because he needed that state of affairs to justify a huge defense budget that created a big looting pot for him and his cronies. As the insurgency grew he could get larger defense budgets every year that increased what he could loot. Now he wants to use 6 weeks to dislodge the insurgents he could not defeat in over 5 years because he wants to come across as strong on security 6 weeks to a major election. When he grew increasingly angry with Will Ross, Will reminded him that over 13,000 people had died and that could not be wished away because he had suddenly woken up to his responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief. Every action of his is political. The other day he visited Mubi, Adamawa State, for the 1st time in 5 years because of election. He took photographs as usual. That was the essence of his visit. Some weeks ago he visited Maiduguri, Borno State for the 1st time in 5 years and took pictures with allegedly wounded soldiers on brand new hospital beds and brand new bed sheets without any signs of injury on them. GEJ lacks the capacity to show compassion. He is luciferic and satanic in and out. He is a chamelionic deadly fox.Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

Fellow Nigerians if you love your lives and you want a better future for yourselves and your children, do all you can to get your PVCs and vote out GEJ in 7 days time. Free yourselves from this wicked and satanic regime. Don't be fooled twice because if you allow that to happen the shame is yours not Jonathan's.

THIS VIDEO IS COURTESY OF THE BBC.

BY BUNMI AWOYEMI

A MUST WATCH VIDEO

FLOOD SOCIAL MEDIA WITH THIS VIDEO SO THAT THE WHOLE WORLD CAN KNOW THE TRUE CHARACTER OF HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN.

BBC'S ABUJA CORRESPONDENT WILL ROSS IN THIS INTERVIEW OF PRESIDENT JONATHAN INADVERTENTLY EXPOSED HIM AS A CONFUSED INCOHERENT INARTICULATE AND CORRUPT PRESIDENT UNWORTHY OF REELECTION AS PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA.

GEJ cannot account for N4.34 trillion out of N4.4 trillion budgeted for defense in 5 years

At his first campaign rally in Lagos, he promised to expose all past Presidents who he claimed failed to equip the army. I believe that formed the basis of WILL ROSS' question on past leaders failing to equip the army. In this interview he could not expose them. The same man that claimed General Muhammadu Buhari did not buy a single military hard ware or ammunition when he was Head of State now refused to expose the same Buhari and others he had accused before. The reason he could not is not far fetched. We the army of Buhari volunteers had exposed the fact that Buhari spent close to $1b on the equipping of the armed forces in 20 short months when he was Head of State, whereas GEJ had spent around $360m on military hardware in 5 years as President. What this means is that out of N4.4 trillion naira budgeted for defense in the last 5 years GEJ could not account for N4.34 trillion. Even the N66 billion naira he spent in 5 years was spent on outdated tokunbo military hardware that other nations had discarded. The subsequent spending from the additional $1b approved by the NASS was a collosal waste. In an exclusive investigative report by Sahara Reporters backed by leaked invoices from the ministry of defense it was revealed that GEJ awarded himself and his cronies a $500 million contract which could have been used to purchase 40 units of modern US military weaponized attack helicopters instead what was purchased was just 6 helicopters which were not equipped with weapons to fight in modern warfare. Almost all the helicopters have either been grounded or have crashed because they are a mismatch for the purposes for which the military needed them. Your guess is as good as mine where the dollar and naira rain is coming from.

Could you have imagined this degree of ridicule from BBC's WILL ROSS and the international community occasioned by clueless and corrupt leadership? He questioned how a nation could say it had no proper equipment to defend its territorial integrity since the civil war. Can you imagine a President saying Nigeria last equipped its military in the 60s during the civil war? This man will stop at nothing to ridicule this country. The clueless one forgot that the same military he is rediculing helped Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mali, Congo, Sudan and Chad end civil wars. The same army defeated the Mataisene sect during Buhari's regime and the same army ended the Nigerian Taliban insurgency. Unlike his predecessors GEJ allowed a school boy or ragtag army of insurgents that he could have crushed within days to become more and more sophisticated because he needed that state of affairs to justify a huge defense budget that created a big looting pot for him and his cronies. As the insurgency grew he could get larger defense budgets every year that increased what he could loot. Now he wants to use 6 weeks to dislodge the insurgents he could not defeat in over 5 years because he wants to come across as strong on security 6 weeks to a major election. When he grew increasingly angry with Will Ross, Will reminded him that over 13,000 people had died and that could not be wished away because he had suddenly woken up to his responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief. Every action of his is political. The other day he visited Mubi, Adamawa State, for the 1st time in 5 years because of election. He took photographs as usual. That was the essence of his visit. Some weeks ago he visited Maiduguri, Borno State for the 1st time in 5 years and took pictures with allegedly wounded soldiers on brand new hospital beds and brand new bed sheets without any signs of injury on them. GEJ lacks the capacity to show compassion. He is luciferic and satanic in and out. He is a chamelionic deadly fox.Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

Fellow Nigerians if you love your lives and you want a better future for yourselves and your children, do all you can to get your PVCs and vote out GEJ in 7 days time. Free yourselves from this wicked and satanic regime. Don't be fooled twice because if you allow that to happen the shame is yours not Jonathan's.

THIS VIDEO IS COURTESY OF THE BBC.

BY BUNMI AWOYEMI

A MUST WATCH VIDEO

FLOOD SOCIAL MEDIA WITH THIS VIDEO SO THAT THE WHOLE WORLD CAN KNOW THE TRUE CHARACTER OF HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN.

BBC'S ABUJA CORRESPONDENT WILL ROSS IN THIS INTERVIEW OF PRESIDENT JONATHAN INADVERTENTLY EXPOSED HIM AS A CONFUSED INCOHERENT INARTICULATE AND CORRUPT PRESIDENT UNWORTHY OF REELECTION AS PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA.

GEJ cannot account for N4.34 trillion out of N4.4 trillion budgeted for defense in 5 years

At his first campaign rally in Lagos, he promised to expose all past Presidents who he claimed failed to equip the army. I believe that formed the basis of WILL ROSS' question on past leaders failing to equip the army. In this interview he could not expose them. The same man that claimed General Muhammadu Buhari did not buy a single military hard ware or ammunition when he was Head of State now refused to expose the same Buhari and others he had accused before. The reason he could not is not far fetched. We the army of Buhari volunteers had exposed the fact that Buhari spent close to $1b on the equipping of the armed forces in 20 short months when he was Head of State, whereas GEJ had spent around $360m on military hardware in 5 years as President. What this means is that out of N4.4 trillion naira budgeted for defense in the last 5 years GEJ could not account for N4.34 trillion. Even the N66 billion naira he spent in 5 years was spent on outdated tokunbo military hardware that other nations had discarded. The subsequent spending from the additional $1b approved by the NASS was a collosal waste. In an exclusive investigative report by Sahara Reporters backed by leaked invoices from the ministry of defense it was revealed that GEJ awarded himself and his cronies a $500 million contract which could have been used to purchase 40 units of modern US military weaponized attack helicopters instead what was purchased was just 6 helicopters which were not equipped with weapons to fight in modern warfare. Almost all the helicopters have either been grounded or have crashed because they are a mismatch for the purposes for which the military needed them. Your guess is as good as mine where the dollar and naira rain is coming from.

Could you have imagined this degree of ridicule from BBC's WILL ROSS and the international community occasioned by clueless and corrupt leadership? He questioned how a nation could say it had no proper equipment to defend its territorial integrity since the civil war. Can you imagine a President saying Nigeria last equipped its military in the 60s during the civil war? This man will stop at nothing to ridicule this country. The clueless one forgot that the same military he is rediculing helped Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mali, Congo, Sudan and Chad end civil wars. The same army defeated the Mataisene sect during Buhari's regime and the same army ended the Nigerian Taliban insurgency. Unlike his predecessors GEJ allowed a school boy or ragtag army of insurgents that he could have crushed within days to become more and more sophisticated because he needed that state of affairs to justify a huge defense budget that created a big looting pot for him and his cronies. As the insurgency grew he could get larger defense budgets every year that increased what he could loot. Now he wants to use 6 weeks to dislodge the insurgents he could not defeat in over 5 years because he wants to come across as strong on security 6 weeks to a major election. When he grew increasingly angry with Will Ross, Will reminded him that over 13,000 people had died and that could not be wished away because he had suddenly woken up to his responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief. Every action of his is political. The other day he visited Mubi, Adamawa State, for the 1st time in 5 years because of election. He took photographs as usual. That was the essence of his visit. Some weeks ago he visited Maiduguri, Borno State for the 1st time in 5 years and took pictures with allegedly wounded soldiers on brand new hospital beds and brand new bed sheets without any signs of injury on them. GEJ lacks the capacity to show compassion. He is luciferic and satanic in and out. He is a chamelionic deadly fox.Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

Fellow Nigerians if you love your lives and you want a better future for yourselves and your children, do all you can to get your PVCs and vote out GEJ in 7 days time. Free yourselves from this wicked and satanic regime. Don't be fooled twice because if you allow that to happen the shame is yours not Jonathan's.

THIS VIDEO IS COURTESY OF THE BBC.

Germanwings Passenger Plane Crashes in France: Officials
A passenger plane has crashed in the French Alps, officials told NBC News.

French president Francois Hollande confirmed the accident near the town of Digne, saying that the wreckage of the plane is in a hard-to-reach area.

"It's a tragedy," he said in a statement expressing sympathies with those affected.

German air traffic control spokesman Axel Raab confirmed that a Germanwings A320 traveling from Barcelona to Dusseldorf had gone down. He was not able to provide more details.

The local La Provence newspaper said the flight was carrying 142 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew, citing aviation officials, according to Reuters.

Germanwings is a no-frills short-haul European carrier owned by German flag-carrier, Lufthansa. The airline said it was aware of the reports but did not have its own confirmed information. Airbus also said it was aware of the reports and that "all our efforts are going toward assisting the situation."

According to flight tracking website Flightradar24, the aircraft involved was a 24-year-old plane that previously flew with Lufthansa.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/germanwings-passenger-plane-crashes-france-officials-n329076

YES, BUHARI IS SICK; AND SO AM I
Nigerians and their infinite capacity for
facile propaganda. I wake up this morning
and what I see all over social media is
some poor taste, childish diagnosis of Major
General Buhari as being sick.
Well, I agree. I agree that Buhari is sick. I
am sick, too. Any Nigerian who is not sick is not sick because he or she is incurably sick. We are all sick. And we should be sick. So,
yes,...
...Buhari is sick of the monumental
corruption that has become institutionalized in Nigeria;
...Buhari is sick of the incompetence of a
government that cannot protect the lives
and properties of its citizens;
...Buhari is sick of the lack of a sense of
urgency in the circles of government in
Nigeria;
...Buhari is sick of a country that has placed
itself on permanent reverse gear;
...Buhari is sick of a country that has left
itself naked as it is raped dry by vagabonds
in power;
...Buhari is sick of a youth population
without jobs;
...Buhari is sick of a country where
university
education has become comparable to 8th
grade competence in advanced civilizations;
...Buhari is sick of a country where roads
are
death traps;
...Buhari is sick of a country where people
go into political offices near poor, but turn
stupendously wealthy overnight;
...Buhari is sick of a country where
education is priced beyond the reach of the
common masses;
...Buhari is sick of a country where $20
Billion (possibly $40 Billion) of public fund
develops legs and walks away, its
whereabouts knowingly unknown;
...Buhari is sick of watching the country he
loves ranked at the bottom of corruption
index by Transparency International
Buhari is sick of a country that earns
billions
of dollars in oil revenue, yet has not a
single
functional oil refinery;
...Buhari is sick of a country where
government has bowed to the dictates of
power generator cabals in a conspiracy that
ensures perpetual darkness;
...Buhari is sick of a country where senators
and congressmen earn more than the
president of the United States of America;
...Buhari is sick of a country where soldiers
are so demoralized to confront a ragtag
Boko Haram terror sect;
...Buhari is sick of a country where
convicted
looters are pardoned and fast tracked for
senate positions;
...Buhari is sick of a country where life
expectancy is among the lowest in the
world;
...Buhari is sick of a country that is on
international news for all the wrong
reasons;
So, yes, Buhari is sick; and so am I.
Question is why is Jonathan not sick as
well?
Why has Jonathan remained healthy in the
face of all the above-listed filth and
diseases? Question is why is not every
Nigerian sick of all the social maladies and
existential outbreaks? It is a time to be sick,
my friends. Buhari is; I am. Are you?
Let's all get sick of where and how Nigeria
is. Let's get real sick. And the sicker we are,
the healthier we are going to be. Let's
schedule a doctor's visit on March 28th .
Let's not forget our health insurance card
(voter card) as we go for this February
appointment. We need to feel better. But
until March 28th , let's feelni sick...
...Real sick!.......... ....VITUS OZOKE is
resident in
the US and a Prof.. @ Salisbury University.