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A crowd waits to enter a medical clinic at the Jose Pantoja Hija schoolhouse in La Union, El Salvador, to receive treatment from the medical staff of the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort, June 22, 2009. The Comfort is in El Salvador on the sixth stop of Continuing Promise 2009, a four-month humanitarian and civic assistance mission to Central America and the Caribbean region.

WAITING FOR COMFORT

A crowd waits to enter a medical clinic at the Jose Pantoja Hija schoolhouse in La Union, El Salvador, to receive treatment from the medical staff of the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort, June 22, 2009. The Comfort is in El Salvador on the sixth stop of Continuing Promise 2009, a four-month humanitarian and civic assistance mission to Central America and the Caribbean region.

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