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A 20 year old Somali man waits for death in a camp for misplaced persons in Baardeere. He arrived in camp a month ago, starvation and disease claiming yet another young life.

Thousands of people line up in a field near Baidoa to pick up bags of wheat brought there by the relief agency, 'Concern.' Lance Cpl. Hilliard and other troops acted as security for the convoy, to guard from looters. There was not enough food for…

A Somali man walks by Lance Cpl. Hilliard while he guards a food shipment of the Irish releif agency, 'Concern' brought to a village near Baidoa by convoy. The man came to pick up his bag of wheat.

A young Somali child holds one of the thousands of leaflets dropped by U.S. military telling in words and pictures about their arrival for the humanitarian mission, and that they have come to help the Somali people.

Young Somali children stand in a dusty field in Baidoa. They are orphans who lost their families to famine and chaos. They live in an orphanage nearby.

Hilliard looks out window of chartered L1011 which carried troops to Somalia. There was a mixture of excitement and anxiety on the plane about what awaited them in this unfamiliar land they saw below.

Lance Cpl. Hilliard hugs his son, Dalton, goodbye as he packs up to leave for Somalia from Camp Pendleton where he is based with the First Service Support Group Supply Battalion.

The faces of Somalia's starving children haunted the world community. The scope of suffering was of biblical proportions when the U.S. military responded. Lance Cpl. Larry Hilliard, USMC, kissed his boy goodbye at Christmas time and left a wife and a…

Nastia Zonkina, 85, from a small town of Mozhaisk, near Moscow. She lives with her son and braves the bitter winter cold every day to do the family's food shopping.

An elderly pensioner prays at Epiphany Catherdral in Moscow. Even when religion was forbidden, the babushki stubbornly refused to give up their fatih. Many children learned of religion when old grandma whispered to them of God as they went to…