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U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Eric Johnson receives a sandbag from a civilian and passes it along a human chain of flood fighters standing in knee-high water southeast of Kindred, N.D., April 21, 2009. Johnson is assigned to the 119th Wing, North Dakota Air National Guard, and is helping the group build a temporary flood levee to hold back rising water from the Sheyenne River near a farmhouse.

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U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Eric Johnson receives a sandbag from a civilian and passes it along a human chain of flood fighters standing in knee-high water southeast of Kindred, N.D., April 21, 2009. Johnson is assigned to the 119th Wing, North Dakota Air National Guard, and is helping the group build a temporary flood levee to hold back rising water from the Sheyenne River near a farmhouse.

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