Brooks-Jones started a fund for students in a small town in Newfoundland after a local Lions Club looked out for her—leading to lifelong friendships and Broadway
This profile is part of a series called ‘Living in the shadow of 9/11,’ which looks at how the worlds of five extraordinary people changed, twenty years later.
Brooks-Jones was one of some 8,000 travellers whose airplanes were grounded at Gander International Airport after the United States closed its airspace on Sept. 11, 2001. She remembers noticing the “nose to tail, wingtip to wingtip” chaos of parked planes after Delta Flight 15, which had departed from Frankfurt en route to Atlanta, touched down. She remembers the calm of the pilot as he explained that New York City’s twin towers had been attacked.