On Thursday, a planeload of troops from the 101st Airborne Division arrived home in Kentucky.

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Desks are unmanned, or close just as a planeload of people arrives.

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Louisans have grown used to seeing jobs disappear by the planeload in the past decade--20, 000 of them from McDonnell Douglas alone, the airplane company Boeing bought in 1997.

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