<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/2026-08-21/magazine/summer-2002/kindness-strangers.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>The Kindness of Strangers</title><excerpt>On Sept. 11, Peggy Gilbert ’64 and her husband, Leonard Kirschner, were five hours into their trip on Delta flight 11 when the captain made an announcement. He repeated his title and name twice, and Peggy and Len knew it was bad news. He said, “Due to terrorist activity in the United States all airspace there is closed, and we are being diverted to St. John’s, Newfoundland.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            
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