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Parkersburg residents dug through debris searching for belongings in the wake of a tornado in 2008 that left a trail of destruction 43 miles long and a mile wide. Matthew Putney/The Waterloo Courier/AP/File
New houses in Parkersburg have replaced most of those that were destroyed by the May 2008 tornado. Matthew Putney/Special to The Christian Science Monitor
Superintendent Jon Thompson helped rebuild the Parkersburg, Iowa, high school after a tornado destroyed it in 2008. Matthew Putney/Special to The Christian Science Monitor
Blake Derifield (center) and Aaron Mulder (right) are among students working out in the wrestling room in the high school’s basement. The wrestling room doubles as a storm refuge. Matthew Putney/Special to The Christian Science Monitor
A granite memorial bench, inscribed with portraits of six people killed in the tornado, sits outside Parkersburg’s City Hall. Matthew Putney/Special to The Christian Science Monitor
After the tornado, Parkersburg decided to build three parks so any child could get on a bike and reach one. Miracle Park playground, shown here, is one of the three. Chris Luhring (first male adult on the right), a town administrator, helped design and raise funds for the playground equipment, including the tornado slides (which twist as they go down). From left to right, the Luhring family: Chris’s father, Larry; Larry’s wife, Marty; Blayne, 6; Emery, 2; Chris and his wife, Elicia; Dayton, 9 months; Ty, 4; and Seyann, 7. Matthew Putney/Special to The Christian Science Monitor
A cross at the United Methodist Church was bent by the EF-5 tornado. The church’s board members decided to leave the cross in that state as a symbol of the destruction that the town endured. Matthew Putney/Special to The Christian Science Monitor
On Memorial Day this year, town residents and visitors gathered for a veterans service. Matthew Putney/Special to The Christian Science Monitor
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/24
In Pictures: Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/23
In Pictures: Huge hurricanes
In Pictures: Oh to be young again, Mr. President!
In Pictures: Facing the devastation of the Oklahoma tornadoes
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/22
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/21
In Pictures: Sinkholes around the world
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah will fight to keep Syria's Bashar Assad in power. He also said Hezbollah fighers are fighting in Syria against Sunni Islamic radicals.
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period."
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