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2 TOUCHING Kay Lebowitz, with Maine Troop Greeters, hugs a US
Army soldier as he leaves Bangor Airport on his way home from Iraq
in 2005. JOHN NORDELL/TCSM/FILEMeeting drama in airports
I have always been fascinated by airports.
You can stand in one and watch as a whole
array of stories plays out. People sleep, run,eat, get massages, get mad, fall in love, buy
things, and eventually board planes. Emotional
goodbyes, happy reunions, and human dra-
ma of every kind are all on display. Monitor
photographers have touched down in airports
all around the world. Most of the time, waiting
in an airport is simply a dreaded hurdle to be
cleared. But on occasion the airport itself is
the venue for the story. These photos from our
archives depict those moments in which an
airport became something more than a waiting
room for the next adventure.- Alfredo Sosa / Director of photography
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1 SHOCKING At Boston’s Logan Air-
port on Sept. 11, 2001, Erica Ferencik
learns that American Airlines Flight
11 to Los Angeles was hijacked and
crashed into the World Trade Center.
She and her husband would have
been on Flight 11 had she not decid-
ed to sleep in and take a later flight.
MELANIE STETSON FREEMAN/STAFF/FILE