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New Orleans resident Alexcener Reaux, 74, thanks Army Staff Sgt. Samuel H. Zoker, a 29-year-old 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper, from Trenton, N.J., outside her home in Algiers, an old neighborhood in New Orleans Sept. 17. Zoker's unit, Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, has been conducting neighborhood patrols through Algiers since Sept. 15. Photo by Gerry J. Gilmore

New Orleans resident Alexcener Reaux, 74, thanks Army Staff Sgt. Samuel H. Zoker, a 29-year-old 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper, from Trenton, N.J., outside her home in Algiers, an old neighborhood in New Orleans Sept. 17. Zoker's unit, Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, has been conducting neighborhood patrols through Algiers since Sept. 15. Photo by Gerry J. Gilmore

New Orleans resident Alexcener Reaux, 74, thanks Army Staff Sgt. Samuel H. Zoker, a 29-year-old 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper, from Trenton, N.J., outside her home in Algiers, an old neighborhood in New Orleans Sept. 17. Zoker's unit, Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, has been conducting neighborhood patrols through Algiers since Sept. 15. Photo by Gerry J. Gilmore

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