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one week after katrina

19 images Created 10 Mar 2009

soldiers with the oregon national guard travel to new orleans, moving through the muck in search of survivors.soldiers with the oregon national guard travel to new orleans, moving through the muck in search of survivors. Copyright Statesman Journal 2005.

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  • A dog lies near a dead body at a gas station in New Orleans. The man was reportedly shot during a dispute over gasoline several days prior as Oregon National Guard troops work in New Orleans after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 7, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • Large sections of downtown New Orleans remain under water as Oregon National Guard troops work after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 7, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • Sweet Waters Bar & Lounge on Marais Street in New Orleans is flooded with filthy, conaminated water after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 8, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • A Wagner's convenience store ransacked by looters. Oregon National Guard troops work in New Orleans after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 7, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • Five-year-old Michael Jennings Jr. tearfully clings to his father Michael Jennings Sr. after the deployment ceremony for the Army National Guard 162nd Infantry at the Salem Armory.
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  • A hurricane survivor waves at passing troops. Oregon National Guard troops work in New Orleans after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 7, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • PFC Donald Epperson (right) and other guardsmen search for survivors in the flooded streets and homes of New Orleans. Oregon National Guard troops work in New Orleans after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 8, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • PFC Donald Epperson and other soldiers use any means possible to get to the frfont door from their Humvee without touching the filthy, contaminated water while searching for survivors in the flooded homes of New Orleans. Oregon National Guard troops work in New Orleans after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 8, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • PFC Donald Epperson (right) passes a bottle of water to another guardsman to give to an abandoned dog while searching for survivors in the flooded homes of New Orleans. Oregon National Guard troops work in New Orleans after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 8, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • Spec. Roberto Gomez and PFC Donald Epperson check up on survivor John Daigle, unwilling to leave even though floodwaters surround his house and reach three steps up his stoop, and even though New Orleans is under mandatory evacuation. Oregon National Guard troops work in New Orleans after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 8, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal) The soldiers are with the 1186th Military Police.
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  • Russell Wharton is evacuated by the Oregon National Guard's 1186th Military Police. Oregon National Guard troops work in New Orleans after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 8, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • Spec. Roberto Gomez of the 1186th Military Police braces himself on the door frame of a Humvee to avoid contact with contaminated water while searching for survivors in flooded New Orleans homes. Oregon National Guard troops work in New Orleans after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 8, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • "There's a lot of bad stuff in this area," said Sgt. Michelle Perez of the Oregon National Guard, who sweeps up dust and residue from the previously flooded parking lot of Holy Angels Academy, a convent where many troops are staying in New Orleans. "It's kind of scary to think we've been breathing this stuff in." Photographed September 11, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • Oregon National Guard troops are using an abandoned convent as a home base while working in New Orleans after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Soldiers in the 1186th Military Police, from left, Sgt. Patricia Chestnut, Sgt. Jason Terkelson and Sgt. Michael Estes. "We've been really busy getting people out who need help," said Sgt. Terkelson. Photographed September 8, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • Staff Sgt. "Mac" McIntosh, from Monmouth, uses a Humvee mirror to check the progress of his morning shave. Oregon National Guard troops work in New Orleans after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 10, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • "I just don't like to see my flag in this condition." As flood waters recede, Capt. Trent Klug takes down and folds a hurricane-tattered flag at the Port of New Orleans. Oregon National Guard troops work in New Orleans after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 7, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • Oregon National Guard troops in the 1186th Military Police Company try to get some sleep on a crowded C-130 propeller-driven ride home from New Orleans after helping the city recover from Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 12, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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  • PFC Adrian Gonzalez folds the company guide-on as the soldiers prepare to board their airplane at Belle Chasse Naval Air Station in New Orleans. Oregon National Guard troops in the 1186th Military Police Company head home from New Orleans after helping the city recover from Hurricane Katrina. Photographed September 12, 2005. (Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)
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