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FLIGHT 93: FROM CHAOS TO COURAGE A SPECIAL SECTION OF THE PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
The first time he met his wife, Melodie, United Airlines pilot LeRoy Homer Jr. flew out to see her. It was 1995, and Homer, who earned his first pilot's license at age 16, had just left active duty as a captain in the Air Force.
They lived on opposite coasts - he in New Jersey, she in California - and had been carrying on a brief telephone relationship after being introduced by friends.
Homer had seen her picture, but she hadn't seen his. How, the former Melodie Thorpe wondered, would she recognize him on their 3,000-mile blind...