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Article: Anxiety marks return: Nearly 700 re-enter the U.S. from Lebanon through BWI; more expected over weekend.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2006
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Byline: Gadi Dechter
Jul. 22--Evacuees' return marked by anxiety
It wasn't the violence in Lebanon that bothered Virginia Radford so much as the trip home.
"Yeah, you heard bombs falling, but I felt fine. Lebanon didn't feel like a war zone at all," the Marymount University sophomore said yesterday, moments after landing at Baltimore's airport along with hundreds of other U.S. citizens fleeing the fighting in Lebanon.
"The only time I was uncomfortable was when we had to leave."
With her mother looking on disapprovingly, the 18-year-old criticized the evacuation as disorganized and chaotic.
A second wave of 697 ...