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A Story of American Unity After 9/11

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A nation in mourning. A city recovering. A unique moment in history when people came together to rebuild hope. When an unimaginable crisis emerged, politically polarized Oregon found a common mission. Three weeks after the September 11th terrorist attacks, airplanes were empty and the New York economy was tanking. So one thousand Freedom Fliers committed to taking sixty-two flights to NYC and infusing local businesses with revenue to show their unwavering support. Arriving en masse to the grief-filled streets, Oregonians from diverse backgrounds and social statuses came to make a difference in their fellow Americans' lives. But beyond the much-needed economic boost, these unsung heroes discovered themselves providing something even more essential... their open hearts. Finalist, History, independent Author Network Awards Sally Ruth Bourrie, freelance writer for the Chicago Tribune and The Boston Globe, witnessed firsthand this remarkable phenomenon sparked by the 2001 Flight for Freedom. In a comprehensive and poignant account, she brings this extraordinary and largely unknown story vividly to life. In Oregon Loves New York, you'll discover: - How everyday people can make a huge difference by being present for others in times of need -Ways a divided community can put aside politics, ideologies, and disagreements to achieve amazing things together - More than 500 pages of tales of courage and humanity, including 200 full-color photographs, 100 personal interviews, 20 years of research, and archival news pieces now lost to history - Heart-touching examples of the healing power of person-to-person contact and how we as a nation can honor each other - Insight into a little-known event with a huge impact, positive messages of hope, and much, much more! Oregon Loves New York: A Story of American Unity After 9/11 Abridged Edition focuses on the as-it-happened Flight for Freedom exclusively, without the chapters found in the original edition that provide background and context for this historic event: chapters on Oregon history and extensive interviews with New Yorkers. Oregon Loves New York: A Story of American Unity After 9/11 Abridged Edition is a stunning look into a country rising from the ashes of unthinkable catastrophe. If you like true-life narratives, triumphs over tragedy, and the goodness of the human spirit, then you'll be uplifted by Sally Ruth Bourrie's inspirational journey.

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Sally Ruth Bourrie has been a writer for more than thirty years. She is currently writer-editor at the Farm Credit Administration, where she wrote the script for Letters from the Grapevine, a film about the agency's employees who served in World War II. Its thousands of views on YouTube have broken all previous agency records.She began her career at the J. Paul Getty Museum where she worked as a curatorial assistant in the Exhibitions and Paintings Departments, armed with her new master's degree in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Southern California. She is proud to have written the first museum exhibition catalogue on the twentieth-century California wood engraver, Paul Landacre, for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She came to California from New York, where she had received her bachelor's degree as a double major in Political Science and Art History at Vassar College. As a full-time freelance writer in Chicago, Denver, and Portland, she contributed heavily to a book on the history of corporate giant Motorola, and pitched and sold more than 2,000 features, articles, white papers, advertorials, book, and web content on topics ranging from business and technology to the arts and gardening. Publications included newspapers such as The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, The Oregonian, The Denver Post, and The Dallas Morning News. Her work also appeared in the Plain Dealer Magazine, Chicago magazine, Northwest Woman, NASDAQ, Colorado Business, and Alaska Airlines; trade publications such as Cable World and Wireless Week and digital media such as Newsweek.com and Barnes and Noble digital library. She also contributed more than 1,000 biographies and object articles to the J. Paul Getty Museum website. Sally served as senior editor for the permanent collections at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where she oversaw the first new guidebook to the collection in more than twenty years, along with creating the first strategic plan for its award-winning digital catalogues, Online Editions, supporting the program in becoming fully sustainable within the institution. She oversaw the editing and production of one of the most complex catalogues ever produced at the Gallery and which was created both in print and online: Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.