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Margarito Garcia holds up the last shirt that his daughter Nicole will ever wear. Garcia was preparing the bodies at a local funeral home for a wake and their eventual journey home. Alberta was Garcia's fiancee and as an undocumented worker he was…

Under a tent outside the Trujillo home in East Los Angeles families and friends gather to mourn with nine consecutive nights of reciting the rosary. Alberta and Nicole's untimely and unexpected death brought many in the community together to help…

Alberta Trujillo and her newborn daughter Nicole Garcia lie in a coffin in an East Los Angeles, California funeral home. They died in a hospital after complications arose during delivery. From a poor family in central Mexico, Alberta's wish was to be…

As is the case in far too many conflicts the civilian population bore the brunt of the fighting through casualties and being uprooted from their homes. Those that fled Gori eventually returned to their homes about two weeks after the fighting…

An elderly resident of Gori breaks down outside a shelter in Tbilisi as she recalls the horror of fleeing her home and her frustration with the slow pace of government efforts to house and feed displaced persons fleeing the fighting.

Gravediggers fill a mass grave on the outskirts of Tbilisi filled with unknown soldiers. Also unknown to both governments and human rights groups were the exact number of casualties with both sides claiming wild exaggerations by one another.

A young Georgian soldier reaches out to relatives who arrived at a Tbilisi hospital after hearing he was released during a prisoner exchange. The number of dead and wounded changed drastically in the days following the conflict as political jockeying…

Desperate residents scramble to get bags of food on the outskirts of Gori in central Georgia. Anger rivaled fear as food finally reached the desperate population of Gori days after the fighting stopped as busloads of donated supplies reached the…

A young resident of Gori parades around the city in Russian tank googles given to him by a Russian soldier in an armored personnel carrier. Some stayed behind in Gori, but the majority of the population fled to Tbilisi and other parts of the country…

Displaced Georgians file into an old Ministry building after fleeing their villages and the city of Gori after Russian troops occupied them. Many were upset with the mishandling of the displaced persons situations by the Sakashvilli government saying…