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Piles of garbage sit, August 8, 2007, in front of a Lower Ninth Ward house that was gutted two years after Hurricane Katrina flooded most of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Ethel Bender, 73, was prepared to move from Houston, Texas, back to New Orleans, Louisiana, when her house in Central City burned to the ground.
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Luther Johnson, 23, is working to rebuild his grand parents home in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. Johnson's grandmother drowned in the house as floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina filled the house while his grandfather survived and hopes to return to the house.
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New Orleans resident Anthony Bauer relaxes at BJ's Neighborhood Bar after working a construction job all day.
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Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans was the scene of several suspected mercy killings by doctors in the days following Hurricane Katrina.
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A mud-caked Nativity rests on a shelf inside a flooded house in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans two years after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city.
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Former Peace Lake Towers resident Barbara Clark has returned to New Orleans, Louisiana and continues to work as a bagger at a near-by grocery store.
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Reconstruction volunteer John Picard, from Birmingham, Alabama, tears down rubble and debris while gutting an abandoned house in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, August 8, 2007. Picard, who has been in New Orleans for three months, was working with a group of volunteers from California- the College Students for New Orleans.
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Construction workers install large water pumps along the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans, Louisiana in an effort to help prevent flooding during future storms, August 8, 2007.
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Construction workers install large water pumps along the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans. Residents of New Orleans, Louisiana are still working to recover and rebuild their city two years after Hurricane Katrina hit the coast with devastating force and flooding.
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