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Sherwin Leggett, 14, embraces Dangelo Parks, 4, while walking around the Medal of Honor Memorial waterfall reading the names of the fallen after the Riverside National Cemetery Veteran's Day ceremony.

Savannah Wetherbee, 10, left, Brionna Distel, 9, and Tucker Wetherbee, 7, comfort each other as the casket of their father California Highway Patrol Officer Shannon Lee Distel is carried into the hearse after his funeral service in Riverisde…

Top high school girls poll vaulter, Caroline Stark laughs with her teammates while waiting to make her next jump during a track meet in Riverside California.

A California Department of Forestry helicopter drops water on a fire burning in the Santa Ana River bed in Mira Loma California.

A small cemetary near the town of Jivino sits next to a large oil pipeline. The road from Lago Agrio to Coca called Via De Los Aucas which means road of the savages is filled with many polluted sites with many related deaths to the pollution.…

A young boy from the Cofan tribe wheres a shirt displaying what the community thinks of the oil company. Picture taken in Dureno and the young man builds canoes which the indigenous people use to get around. Picture taken in Ecuador, October 20,…

Guillermo Grefa holds the long stick which he used to poke through the ground to expose the oil saturated soil beneath the site in Rumipamba in Eastern Ecuador. Guillermo is the son-in-law to Maria Aguinda, the person the suit is named for. In the…

Maria Villasis shows the scars from her operation. She has many health problems with her liver and stomach due to the pollution of the water her doctor told her. More than six years ago an open pit just a few feet away from her chicken house was…

Maria Villasis sweeps in front of her chicken house. In back of her is an old oil can and a large field which was once an oil pit thats been covered up and leaks oil into the neighboring ground and well water. The pollution has given her many health…

The Kichwas tribe, Elvia Chimbo Aquinda and her son Rivaldo Aquida 1, walk though a remediated oil field in the backgound gas is burnt off from a nearby oil field. Elvia is the daughter of Maria Aquinda whom the lawsuit against the oil companies is…