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...turf and came down again a quarter-mile away, grazing one car on busy State Highway 114 and demolishing a second car, whose driver was decapitated. The plane skipped across a grassy field, ricocheted off a water tower, then burst into flames as it slid across the tarmac. "It was like a wall of napalm," said Airline Mechanic Jerry Maximoff. The tail section, with one of the plane's three engines and the last ten rows of seats, was the only recognizable part of the wreckage...
...propagandistic to me, but the fullness of its meaning will soon be made clear in unusual, very human terms. As I'd anticipated, they look shocked and want to hand me the bouquet, but I can't hold it and the crutches at the same time. Standing on the tarmac, they hold a quick conference in Vietnamese with numerous glances at my cast. I understand their concern: these are the people who will be responsible for my well-being over the next two weeks. Clearly my condition is worrisome...
...featuring stops in Madagascar, Reunion, Zambia, Malawi, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, South Korea, Indonesia, East Timor and Mauritius. His visits, especially to the Third World's farthest outposts, projected a sense of a true church universal. The Pope would arrive at each destination and kiss the airport tarmac. With his square jaw, actor's timing and facility with languages, he established an electrical connection with hundreds of millions of people. "He transmits hope," explained Philadelphia Archbishop Justin Rigali. John Paul's friend Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete told PBS's Frontline in 1999, "John Paul II knows that...
...last glimpse of him high above the square became the latest in an album of images he left behind: a kiss on the tarmac in each new city; a smile lit by love and certainty; a white robe stained red by a would-be assassin's bullet, and the public forgiveness that followed; a challenge thrown down before prisoners and Presidents, sinners and saints to heed the highest calling of their hearts. He was the first Pope ever to visit a mosque, or launch a website, or commemorate the Holocaust at Auschwitz or find in a broken world so many...
...recognize their loved ones. This is a side of the war that is largely hidden, grinding on almost entirely out of view of television cameras and press conferences. While the Pentagon names each dead soldier, few details are released of those injured, and no photographer is permitted on the tarmac when the casualties from Iraq are unloaded at Ramstein Air Base near Landstuhl. For these soldiers, Landstuhl is a brief hiatus, perhaps a week or two before they are dispatched home or returned to the war. Here, they are neither liberators nor occupiers, neither vilified nor celebrated. They are simply...