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Oregon Loves New York

A Story of American Unity After 9/11
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The Best of America-Captured in Print for the First Time

Something powerful happened in New York. We had a rare opportunity to experience the healing power of human-to-human contact and to honor our highest nature.

Jan Woodruff, Portland State University Director of Marketing and Freedom Flier

Three weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when the world was afraid to get on an airplane, much less a plane to New York City, 1,000 Oregonians took 62 flights to show the terrorists they didn't win and to boost the tanking New York economy. What they found were fellow Americans who needed more than their money, they needed their hearts. The Flight for Freedom is a little-known story of Americans at their best, showing up for their fellow Americans in a time of tragedy.

Through this book, it is the author's hope that Americans can see that it's possible to come together despite what seem to be vast differences. These Oregonians did it.

For a nation as divided as the United States is today, the book explains how Oregon mirrors America as a whole in many ways. Oregon is widely diverse geographically, has a troubled racial history, and in 2004 was found to be the most politically polarized state by Nate Silver's 538. And yet these Oregonians from across the spectrum of economics and background-1 in every 3,000 people in the state were Freedom Fliers-came together to stand in the grief and pain of big-city people 3,000 across the continent who were seemingly so different than they. And New Yorkers opened their hearts to them.


Author Sally Ruth Bourrie covered the event for the Chicago Tribune and The Boston Globe. Learn more about the Flight for Freedom and Sally at https: //oregonlovesnewyork.com.

Includes full-color photos from this historic trip. 698 pages.

The symbolic commitment to be a part of the recovery of New York from these horrible attacks meant a great deal to all New Yorkers and sent a very positive message to the entire nation. The Flight for Freedom demonstrated that people from 3,000 miles across the continent felt comfortable and safe in the streets, and that message got out in the rest of the country.

Former New York Governor George Pataki


With Oregonians' Flight for Freedom, the people of my State are standing shoulder to shoulder with the citizens of New York in an effort to make clear that no terrorist can break the American spirit. I urge all Americans to follow their example.

Senator Ron Wyden speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate, October 4, 2001

I came to this country sixty years ago as a refugee, an immigrant, with absolutely nothing, no hope, no future except what we're going to make of it-and here I am leading the delegation down Fifth Avenue. And then, to see New Yorkers opening up their hearts to us. Not only did they give me something back, we were able to give them something back. It was just mind-blowing for all of us.

Portland Mayor Vera Katz on leading the Freedom Fliers in the 2001 New York Columbus Day Parade on the anniversary of arriving in New York City as a Holocaust refugee

Product Details

PublisherHerbert & Joy Press
Publish DateSeptember 03, 2021
Pages698
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781737833703
Dimensions9.0 X 6.0 X 1.4 inches | 2.0 pounds
BISAC Categories: History, History

About the Author

Sally Ruth Bourrie has been a writer for more than thirty years. 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 complicated catalogues ever produced at the Gallery and which was created both in print and online: Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.

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