Bestselling author Mitch Albom, known for blockbuster books like “Tuesdays with Morrie,” “The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” and “The Stranger in the Lifeboat,” was among those forced to flee from Haiti in the dead of night after the nation descended into sheer chaos.
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Albom was visiting Have Faith Haiti, an orphanage run by him and his wife, Janine, when Haiti’s government collapsed.
Suddenly, the author and his wife were among the Americans trapped with no way out.
With violence flaring, Albom, Janine, and eight others were granted an emergency airlift Tuesday out of the beleaguered country — an exit independently coordinated by Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) after U.S. government sources failed to help Albom, and the politician acted alone.
Recounting the details in an interview with CBN News, Albom said he and the group were forced to flee in a helicopter in the dead of night.
“It was pretty clear that, if we were going to find a way out, we were going to have to do it independently,” he said, after explaining outreach to the U.S. government didn’t go anywhere. “We began to explore those options.”
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