LEST WE FORGET

Haiti: Coping with the aftermath
Hi-res images from Los Angeles Times photographers Carolyn Cole, Rick Loomis and Brian Vander Brug.
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PLEA: A banner calling for help in the Delmas 36 neighborhood in Port-au-Prince. U.S. officials said they are using three additional airfields to speed the arrival of supplies.
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VICTIM: Rose Marie Riviera offers a portrait of her son Robert to a friend in downtown Port-au-Prince where she and her husband returned to their hardware store to assess damage. Robert, 18, was killed last week when the magnitude 7.0 quake struck.
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ON THE STREETS: Jocelyne Arther sweeps trash into a bonfire in an alley, where she lives with her family since moving out of her quake-damaged home in Delmas 36. Residents of the neighborhood are organizing to get food, water and tents because most are living on the streets, afraid or unable to move back into their damaged homes.
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VIOLENCE: Michel Chedler, 28, is taken in by police after he was beaten during an argument over stolen property and chased by a mob chanting, “You stole! You stole!” in Port-au-Prince. The police planned to let him go after the crowd dispersed.
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OUT OF GAS: A man pushes a truck with an empty gas tank in Port-au-Prince. Gasoline is scarce.
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ALL SMILES: Young girls peer out of their corrugated steel home on the wharf in Port-au-Prince. U.S. military officials said the seaport is being reopened partially and will be able to handle up to 250 containers.
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WAITING FOR CASH: People line up at a money transfer office in Port-au-Prince, hoping to get money from relatives abroad. Many waited in line for hours without getting in before closing time.
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MAKING DO: Women carry supplies past a collapsed Texaco gas station in Port-au-Prince. Gasoline supplies may become a problem as a pier servicing tankers was damaged in the earthquake.
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BONANZA: Scrap metal collectors wait for a backhoe to finish moving chunks of a fallen building before scrambling to salvage steel rebar in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital. Since the earthquake, salvage activity has exploded into all areas of the city instead of only the dump.
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REBAR IN THE RUBBLE: A scrap collector in Port-au-Prince hammers away concrete in the effort to get at rebar in the rubble.
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TOP-HEAVY: A scrap collector walks through a Port-au-Prince intersection carrying salvaged metal items on his head.
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PULLING HIS WEIGHT: A scrap collector pulls a bwet, a wooden cart laden with wood he will use for cooking fuel, through the streets of downtown Port-au-Prince.
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LOOTERS: In what has become a daily ritual in downtown Port-au-Prince, looters carry goods out of stores, all while keeping an eye on nearby police.
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CATHEDRAL IN RUINS: A man ducks under police tape warning passersby to avoid the ruins of the Notre Dame Cathedral of Port-au-Prince after a 5.9-magnitude aftershock shook the Haitian capital.
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SHOTGUN: A policeman aims his shotgun toward looters in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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TAKING REFUGE: Haitian families take refuge in the streets in Port-au-Prince after a powerful aftershock. Thousands of earthquake survivors have stayed outdoors instead of indoors because their homes were ruined in the earthquake or they fear new temblors.
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HAITIAN FLAG: A Haitian flag flies at half-staff in front of the collapsed presidential palace in Port-au-Prince. The flag, which is usually raised everyday, was placed in front of the ruins seven days after the deadly earthquake.
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SEEKING WORK: Haitian men wait for work from visiting journalists in front of the Oloffson Hotel in Port-au-Prince.
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DAMAGED MURAL: A damaged mural in Port-au-Prince displays artistic symbolism for death.
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FOOD LINE: Children cling to adults as they push forward in a food handout line run by American troops in Port-au-Prince.
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KEEPING ORDER: A member of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division keeps a line of Haitians moving toward a food and water handout in Port-au-Prince.
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FOOD AND WATER: Thousands of Haitians line up for food and water at a camp near the United States ambassador’s residence in Port-au-Prince.
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NATIONAL FLAG: In Port-au-Prince, Haitian guards raise the national flag to half-staff in front of the National Palace, which was destroyed in the earthquake.
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CONCERN: A man gazes at the Port-au-Prince chicken shop where he worked for many years as men protect items in a truck.
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RUBBLE: woman navigates through the rubble in downtown Port-au-Prince.
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PALACE: Haiti’s presidential palace.
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LINING UP: Men line up for the chance to earn a bit of money loading goods in downtown Port-au-Prince.
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AMPUTEE: Patrick Nore, 20, a university student, was at school when the earthquake struck. His left arm had to be amputated three days after he was injured because he had not received assistance in time.
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OUTBOUND: U.S. citizens wait to board a flight out of Haiti.
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U.S. NAVY: Members of the U.S. Navy are helping transfer personnel around the country, as well as delivering water.
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SCHOOL BUS: A boy waits in front of a converted school bus at a Port-au-Prince bus depot. Haitians are leaving for the countryside en masse.
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JAMMED: Buses are jammed when they leave Port-au-Prince and empty when they return.
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RAINFALL: The Alnnus brothers, from right, Kerwens, Hans and Jenskaid, wait in a chapel doorway as rain briefly falls on Port-au-Prince. Haitians are worried that if intense rains come, damaged structures in the capital may slide down the hillsides, causing more death and misery.
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WAITING: The Theodore family waits in Port-au-Prince for a bus to take them to the countryside
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BUS DEPOT: Deacon Shawl looks out onto the loading area at a Port-au-Prince bus depot.
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HAIRCUT: Willins Jean, 9, cries as he gets a haircut in an alley in Port-au-Prince, where many businesspeople have set up shop in the streets. The boy said he was crying because he was hungry.
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FROM ABOVE: An aerial view provides greater perspective on damage wrought to downtown Port-au-Prince in the 7.0 earthquake one week ago today.
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TENT CITY: Tent camps are set up in dirt fields all over the city of Port-au-Prince for those who have lost their homes and others too afraid to sleep inside.
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DEPARTING: A U.S. citizen is helped aboard a flight leaving the country.
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BURNING: Fires burn in downtown Port-au-Prince, where most of the buildings have been destroyed.
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WAITING: Nearly a week after the quake struck, Seraphine Joseph is still waiting to be cared for at a clinic in the town of Leogane.
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FOOD: Rebecca Brutus, 4, hangs on tight to a package of food her family received in Leogane.
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MAKING DO: Nearly a week after the quake struck Haiti, the people of Leogane are making do for themselves. Angelo Meyanse, 13, collects bricks from a church that was destroyed. The bricks will be used by his family to make a new home.
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INJURED: Patients at a clinic in Leogane, a sugarcane-producing area outside Port-au-Prince.
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DESTROYED: Nearly all of the buildings in downtown Port-au-Prince were destroyed. Burning ruins send smoke over the city.
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DAMAGED HOME: In Leogane, nearly every home has been damaged.
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WATER: People wait to fill water containers with a hose on a Port-au-Prince street.
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RUBBLE: A woman sorts belongings atop the rubble of her home in Port-au-Prince, the capital.
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SALVAGE: Young women balance a mattress in the capital.
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DIVERSION: Men play dominoes in the street in front of the French Embassy in Port-au-Princei. Some residents are beginning the attempt to resume their lives after last week’s 7.0 earthquake.
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BOY: A young boy carries a table on John Brown Street in Port-au-Prince.
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MURAL: Cracks have damaged a mural on the facade of a hair salon in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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PRAYING: On the first Sunday after the 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti, an elderly woman prays in front of the National Cathedral in Port-au-Prince.
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WAITING FOR WATER: Five-year-old Jean Delimat await a chance to fill his jug from a broken water pipe as others try to bathe in the water.
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CHAOS: Looters continue to steal over the body of a man who has just been shot and killed by police in central Port-au-Prince.
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CHAOTIC CONDITIONS: On the first Sunday after the quake, at 9:00am in the morning, the streets of downtown Port-au-Prince are filled with people scavenging. Onlookers add to the crowd.
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SCAVENGING: A crowd swarms a building in downtown Port-au-Prince, where the number of people scavenging continues to rise.
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GOODS FROM STORE: A looter makes off with rolls of fabric from an earthquake-wrecked store in downtown Port-au-Prince.
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PYRE: A man feeds a fire he set to burn a corpse in downtown Port-au-Prince four days after the earthquake. Residents have started to take action on their own because bodies haven’t been picked up and the stench is overwhelming. The deceased was a street vendor who was killed when a cement block fell on her, according to those who were around her.
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AT A LOSS: Filiane Lander, 39, right, and Suzette Benjamin, 50, cover their noses as they watch the body of one of their friends being burned where she was killed by falling debris. “I was sitting right there,” Lander said, “when it happened. We don’t know what to do now. No one has told us. Not only do we not have money to buy food to sell, but we don’t even have a place to sit.” Many women like them sit on the sidewalks selling goods. Debris had fallen from the building above, killing their friend. Locals set the corpse on fire to try to eliminate the stench, which had become too strong after four days during which no city workers had come to pick up the body.
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WAITING FOR RELIEF: A boy watches a passing helicopter as Haitians line up to receive high-protein biscuits being handed out by the World Food Program with the assistance of United Nations troops.
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HOMELESS: A man holds his sleeping son during another night in a park in Port-au-Prince. Thousands of people are afraid to sleep in their homes, and many have no homes to go to.
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PATROL: An armed security guard patrols in downtown Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, to prevent looting in the area where several bank buildings collapsed.
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DAMAGED: A section of downtown Port-au-Prince is among the areas that were heavily damaged.
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ACCIDENTAL: The body of a police officer lies in a Port-au-Prince street. He was accidentally shot by fellow officers who mistook him for a looter.
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LOOTING: Looting continued in Haiti on the third day after the earthquake, although there were more police in downtown Port-au-Prince.
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DESTROYED: The Port-au-Prince Cathedral was destroyed in the earthquake.
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LOOTERS: A man taking part in the looting of a downtown Port-au-Prince store wears an Obama T-shirt. On the third day after the earthquake some of the police force has started to appear in the streets.
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AID: International aid has started to arrive three days after the earthquake hit Haiti. A team from the World Food Program passes out water containers and purification tablets with the help of United Nations peacekeeping troops in central Port-au-Prince.
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STANDING GUARD: An armed security guard monitors an area of downtown Port-au-Prince where the national bank collapsed. Take note of the brutal machete slash in the dog’s shoulder behind the guard.
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ARRESTED: A Haitian police officer ties up a suspected looter who was carrying a bag of evaporated milk.
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CANDLELIGHT: Thousands of people in Port-au-Prince are still too afraid to sleep in their homes. A family gathers around a candle waiting for the sun to rise on the third night after the quake. They were singing hymns throughout the night.
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RESCUE: A Belgian rescue team pulls 52-year-old Marise Pierre Louis from the rubble of her home in Port-au-Prince where she trapped for three days. International aid has started to arrive three days after the earthquake hit Haiti.
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RELIEF: Dan Woolley, of Compassion International, is rescued from the Hotel Montana, where he spent 65 hours pinned under rubble. Touching his face is Mondesir Luckson, a bellboy who was also trapped in the ruins and with whom he was able to communicate.
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TENT CITY: One of the many tent cities that have sprung up around Port-au-Prince catering to the thousands left homeless after a 7.0 earthquake.
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MAKESHIFT: A young boy peeks out from sheets cobbled together for a makeshift tent in Port-au-Prince. Residents have been making do with whatever they can find.
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STREET SCENE: Haitians argue over goods looted from a store in downtown Port-au-Prince. The woman holds in her top the share she claims.
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STANDING GUARD: Police try to stop looting in downtown Port-au-Prince. People are becoming desperate for food and water and anything they might sell.
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MORGUE: Lionel Michaud mourns the death of his wife, Lormeny Nathalie, and son Christian Michaud, who lie in the courtyard outside a morgue in Port-au-Prince where hundreds of bodies have been brought.
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SEARCHING: A man helps in the effort to rescue Herby Emile, who survived the quake but was trapped after Canape Vert College in Port-au-Prince collapsed. Emile’s friends are able to pass him food and water but cannot free him from the rubble.
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MEDICAL ATTENTION: Windhantz Bazim, 8, who suffered a broken leg and other injuries when his house collapsed on him, is carried into a Doctors Without Borders clinic in Port-au-Prince.
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DETAINED: A man is detained after being accused of looting from a store in downtown Port-au-Prince. Police officers and the store owner beat him in the street.
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GRIM TASK: Men carry a dead relative in a coffin down the street as transportation for many is difficult and gasoline is nearly gone.
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DISTRAUGHT: Women grow distraught as they discover that the body of a relative they had recovered has disappeared. The family sold the coffin they had brought in to another family that had a dead relative nearby.
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VICTIM: The body of a young girl lays on the side of the road two days after the massive earthquake that destroyed the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.
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BELONGINGS: While some Haitians searched for survivors in the rubble, others packed what was left of their belongings and evacuated Port-au-Prince. By some official estimates, 3 million people were affected by the earthquake, roughly a third of the population of the impoverished Caribbean nation.
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HOPE FOR HAITI: A medic from Hope for Haiti cleans the wounds of an injured girl outside the La Villa Creole hotel in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville.
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FATALITIES: A Hope for Haiti medic tends to a young boy injured in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that has devastated Port-au-Prince. Planes carrying rescuers and tons of water, food and medical supplies have landed in the Haitian capital from the U.S., China, France and Spain, according to officials and news reports.
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ABLAZE: A fire burns from within a destroyed building in Port-au-Prince. Throughout the capital, structures lay collapsed like giant sandwiches, with remnants showing through.
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MEDICAL ATTENTION: Quake victims receive aid at a makeshift hospital in Port-au-Prince.
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WAITING: An earthquake victim awaits further medical help in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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HELPLESS: Men gather outside the Justice Department in Port-au-Prince, where countless victims lay buried. President Obama called the 7.0 quake “cruel and incomprehensible” and promised that the U.S. would help in any way it could.
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PITCHING IN: A woman tries to rescue someone whose voice she heard from benaeath the Department of Justice building, one of many shattered government centers.
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ALIVE: A teacher who was injured when his school collapsed is helped by a stranger outside a hospital.
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CRUSHED:s A car lies beneath a collapsed structure in the Haitian capital. Scientists focus on areas with high seismic standards while ignoring poorer regions, one expert says.
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FEARING AFTERSHOCKS: Afraid of more aftershocks, Haitians rest in the streets of Port-au-Prince.
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FATALITIES: Bodies lie wrapped in sheets in Port-au-Prince, a familiar site in the Haitian capital a day after the earthquake.
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