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The nine coffins carried one by one to separate hearses which will carry them on to one last ceremony.

A cold winter wind came up as the sun slipped behind the horizon backwinding the American Flag around Airman William Menshew.

With a practice coffin sitting atop a wooden cable spool, the Honor Guard prepares for the evening’s ceremony.

Sgt. Michael Villa-Blais in full dress rushes out to the final inspection. Captain Brenda Lamb picks off a piece of lint during the last minute inspection of her troops.

The incoming Air Force cargo jet lit up by the last rays of daylight brought home nine MIA’s more than a decade since the official end of the Vietnam War.

Jesus Martinez Velazquez died in 1977 and was buried outside Mexico City at the San Lorenzo Cemetery. His grave was amongst hundreds ordered dug up to make room for the burial of earthquake victims that were identified. Relatives were given three…

Every forty-five minutes the largest church in the western hemisphere, The Basilica de Guadalupe, held mass for ten thousand survivors of the tragic earthquake.

Santa Maria Alanis brought this little boy into the world at the Juarez Hospital. She and her husband hadn’t decided on a name yet, there wasn’t time as she was buried with her boy in the rubble. Five days later rescue workers found…

Relatives of patients and hospital staff held vigils for days on end praying for word of their loved ones. For so many, the word came slamming home in tragic truth.

An 11-story surgical and maternity ward of the Juarez Hospital in Mexico City is reduced to looking like a stack of pancakes by the devastating earthquake. After hours of digging through the rubble, badly-needed medical supplies were recovered…