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Jeff Hughes offers his back to hold up a couch as neighbors in Grafton Illinois help the Gallegos family raise their furniture above the rising Mississippi River.

Volunteers ad sandbag reinforcements to a levee on the Raccoon river in Des Moines. More than 1.5 million sandbags were used in the Des Moines area.

An exhausted Pam Christian collapses on a wall of sandbags after helping patch a levee that saved some downtown businesses in west Des Moines.

The Gypsies are herded into waiting buses where they are then taken to the train station and put on a special car that will take them back to the Ukraine.

An angered Gypsy mother yells at the Omon as she watches the men of her camp being separated from the rest of them.

the Omon tear down and destroy the Gypsy camp.

Gypsy men are rounded up separately from the women and children and tied up.

The Omon strike terror as they chase the Gypsies through camp.

Gypsy women and children try to flee the Omon but find they are surrounded.

Members of the Omon kick a Gypsy in the groin as they raid the Gypsy camp.