Phoning Home

[Claude]
1: 15 a. M

[All]
Wednesday

[Claude]
September 12th
Crisis counselors are called to Gander Academy

[Beulah]
The Plane People, they’re exhausted
But they don’t want to sleep
And we’re standing there, ready with all that food
But that’s not what they wanted. They wanted phones

[Janice]
1: 45 A.M. six phones are put on tables for the Plane People
To use free of charge lined up alongside
The road by the Newtel Building

[Beulah]
An hour later, they set up twenty more phones

[Claude]
An hour after that, there’s seventy-five phones and computers
With internet, all being used ‘round the clock

[Passenger 5]
Hello? Yes, it's me

[Bob]
Dad, I'm okay
It's okay

[Hannah]
I'm calling from Canada

[Kevin J]
Safe and sound here on the ground
Here in Iceland

[Kevin T]
No, Newfoundland

[Bob]
Yeah

[Company]
We just saw the news

[Hannah]
Have you heard yet from Kev?

[Kevin J]
Or Celena

[Passenger 5]
Call Micah

[Passenger 7]
And Lauren

[Kevin T]
My parents

[Passenger 6]
My aunt!

[Diane]
It's Diane, no I'm fine
Where's David?
Oh, thank God!