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U.S. sailors and Marines aboard the USS Essex fill boxes with 16-liter water bladders to prepare for humanitarian assistance for Burmese victims of Cyclone Nargis, May 16, 2008.

WATER WELLS

U.S. sailors and Marines aboard the USS Essex fill boxes with 16-liter water bladders to prepare for humanitarian assistance for Burmese victims of Cyclone Nargis, May 16, 2008.

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