Waving goodbye to the waiting crowd, Pope John Paul II, at the town of Wadowice, Poland, where the Pope was born and grew up, Wednesday, June 16, 1999. The Pope visited the Basilica at Wadowice and met with the people of his old home town. John Paul II will leave Poland on Thursday, and is scheduled to also visit Czestochowa, Poland's holiest shrine. (AP Photo/Rudi Blaha)