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When the Columbian volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted, it sent a tidal wave of mud, ashes and rocks smashing down on the town of Armero. It left an estimated 25,000 people dead, 22,000 homeless and more than 60,000 acres of farmland ruined. Workers try…

Thirteen year old Omayra Sanchez died after sixty hours of attempting to free her from the hole she was trapped in following the eruption of the Nevado de Ruiz volcano in Colombia.

John Testrake, pilot of TWA 847, under guard by the hijakcers in a photograph taken by a Lebanese cameraman.

A SWAT team member in Yuba City, Calif., raced seven-year-old Shannon Jones to safety from the home where the boy’s knife-wielding father had threatened to kill Shannon and three other children. Finally, after more than a six-hour standoff,…

Mom waits as her father loads their possessions into a taxi that will take them to the bus station. She didn’t want to move, but she had no choice. Her father had decided to start over once again on the West Coast. He said there were too many…

Mom waits for her father to decide where they will move. When asked, he named half a dozen American cities where he had relatives and friends. Finally, he chose the West Coast, and within a couple of hours, he and his daughter left town.

Mom’s teachers and classmates tried to be understanding after her mother died.

Mom showed flashes of her old self on the school playground in the weeks following her mother’s death.

During the funeral service, Mom hugged an old pocketbook of her mother’s and cried quietly.

During the funeral service, Mom ran her fingers through the ashes of her cremated mother and cried out in anguish.