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  • After resting less than eight hours during their six-day patrol, Sgt. Jon Rosenberg, left, and other Marines start their Escape and Evasion exercise with singing The Marine Corps Hymn in a cloud of gas from gas grenades and then tear gas canisters. To be combat-ready Reconnaissance Marine, students have to go through ten weeks training that required them to challenge their physical and mental limits.
  • “This is all I have,” Tina Turlington sobs out. Her mobile home was demolished as Hurricane Isabel swept Hampton Roads area in Virginia. Tina, her disabled husband and a teenage son are one of the 7,851 Virginia families, who were forced out of their homes by the hurricane.
  • Lawanda Booker compares before and after X-ray photos of her son's spinal fusion surgery at Shriners Hospitals for Children. Her son, Edward, 16, who was shot five times by another 16-year-old, barely escaped alive, was paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the shooting. A bullet in Edward's spine, right X-Ray, is also removed during the surgery.
  • Shaqwanna Boisseau, facing, comforts her cousin, Kalesha Jones, 11, best friend of Amiya Moses, during a vigil. Amiya, the 12-year-old, was killed at her friend's apartment by a random shooting.
  • {quote}Best part is being out with my family. Worst part is some of my families are not here,{quote} Keith Allen Harward says of his parents, who passed away during his imprisonment, {quote}It's devastating.{quote} He visited his parents' grave in Greensboro, NC. Harward, a former sailor wrongly imprisoned for 1982 slaying of a Newport News man and the rape of his wife, walked out of the prison after 33 years. Virginia Supreme Court granted a writ of actual innocence and tossed out his convictions after DNA tests.
  • Edward Miller, center, arrives at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Philadelphia for his spinal fusion surgery to treat his curved spine. Doctors planed to correct Edward’s curved spine, which caused by pressure from his weight after being paralyzed by the shooting.
  • “I can see her and she can see me all the time,” Vincent Cousins said when asked why he puts photos of his daughter, Vinnesha Hunter, inside his car. Vinnesha, 19, was killed by a stray bullet while she was standing in her kitchen.
  • Friends of Lucia Bremer, 13, who was killed by 15-year-old boy, comfort each other as they place flowers near the site, where Lucia was shot.
  • Taquan Hawkins, 3, shares a laugh with his grandmother, Robin Richardson during his therapy. Taquan suffered burns to 75 percent of his body in an apartment fire. {quote}Sometimes, Taquan has bad days and sometimes, he has good days,{quote} Richardson says of her grandson, {quote}but I try to make his day the best.{quote}
  • Ty Frautschi, an F/A-18 Hornet Pilot, greets his wife, Tiffany, 8-month pregnant, as he and other members of the “Sunliners” of Strike Fighter Squadron 81 returned from a six-month deployment.
  • Kids hang on the side of the pool to get a feel for water during the first of day of swimming lesson as Chris Tilstra instructs from behind. Wary student’s feet dangle in the water to the right.
  • Alan Burkett,13, Michael Luck, 12, Matt Bingham and Nathan Ryalls, family program interpreters from Colonial Williamsburg, work on setting up goal posts for Native American football in Colonial Williamsburg.
  • Protesters gather at Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Va.
  • US soccer fans react to Portugal's tie-goal near the end of the game as they watch US and Portugal World Cup match in Richmond.
  • Washington Redskins' wide receiver DeSean Jackson(11) misses a pass against Buffalo Bills' cornerback Ronald Darby(28) as Redskins’ head coach Jay Gruden reacts to the action during the second half of NFL football game at FedExField.
  • UVA's De'Andre Hunter(12) and Virginia Tech's Chris Clarke(15) get physical during the overtime of a NCAA men's basketball game at University of Virginia,
  • Hanover High School cheerleaders perform with sunset as tropical storm Hermine approach the area.
  • Richmond Flying Squirrels' Andrew Susac opens arms to feel rain as a severe thunderstorm approaches to area and stopped the baseball game.
  • St. Andrews University head coach Joe Baranik, background center, celebrates Kody Getkin’s win by pin over Brockport’s Tom Rispoli during the Virginia Duals in Hampton.
  • Jack Smith, chaplain of Southeastern Correctional Ministry, comforts and prays with a teenage resident at Middle Peninsula Juvenile Detention Center. For 20 years, the ministry has reached out to those in jails on and around the Peninsula.
  • Michael Vanhook, left, and Thaddous Kelly, right, inmates, listen to James Robinson, who visits the jail as a chaplain to spread words of Jesus. Robinson has been reaching Southeast area, where city's poorest and most crime-ridden community, with his ministry for 16 years as a street minister and a chaplain for the city jail.
  • Toniyah {quote}Butta{quote} Ross, 12, braids the hair of her brother Dalen Smith at their home in Mosby Court, one of housing projects in Richmond. {quote}It's violent and I don't like to go anywhere,{quote} Toniyah said of her neighborhood, {quote}Because it's a lot of shootings and I don't want to get hurt.{quote}
  • Petty Office 3rd Class Shawn Carr, left, is greeted by girlfriend Sara Roggenbuck, while fellow sailor Richard Watt embraces his wife, Jennifer, upon the return of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt.
  • Bull riders wait and prepare for the rodeo at the Isle of Wight County Fair. “I know when I’m sitting there in that chute and the bull is moving around that there’s no other feeling like it in the world,” said rider Chad Beechboard. “It’s just you and him. Eight seconds ain’t that long if you think about it.”
  • Shea Willard, of King, NC, center, and Brandon Chambers, of Newport, NC, bow for 'Cowboy's Prayer' before their bull riding competition.
  • Hampton University students and faculty members hold hands and pray for the victims of September 11 terrorist attacks.
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