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BRACE FOR IMPACT "Miracle on the Hudson” Survivors Share Their Stories of Near Death and Hope for New Life On January 15, 2009, the world was mesmerized by "the miracle on the Hudson.” Against all odds, Captain Chesley B. "Sully” Sullenberger safely landed a plane plunging toward disaster on the river. More amazingly, all 150 passengers survived—and, for the most part, with nothing worse (physically) than a few bruises and soggy clothes. At the time, many of us tried to imagine how we would have responded to those three chilling words—"Brace for impact”—and then, amazingly, been spared from certain death?
What has been the real impact they braced for, not of the disaster and death they expected, but of the gift of a "new” life?
Intrigued by these and other questions, authors Dorothy Firman and Kevin Quirk set out to find answers—by asking the survivors themselves. The result is an inspiring collection of firstperson accounts: Brace For Impact: "Miracle on the Hudson” Survivors Share Their Stories of Near Death and Hope for New Life (HCI Books). Along Over a year later, it's time for a different, perhaps more meaningful story. What happened with the personal stories of 25 men and women profoundly affected by Flight 1549—survivors to these extremely fortunate passengers when and first-responders—this volume offers lessons they went home? What was it like to return to about faith, gratitude, wisdom, healing, love, and their families, their jobs, their neighborhoods— everything familiar, but somehow changed? How transformation for everyone in today's world of did they celebrate coming back from the brink of upheaval and challenges. near-death trauma? How did their loved ones Continued on Next Page… respond to the living proof of a miracle? PAGE 34