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A boat and trash sit in the front parking lot of a church after a tsunami caused a great amount of structural damage to the island and its villages, Oct. 1, 2009, in Pago Pago, American Samoa.

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A boat and trash sit in the front parking lot of a church after a tsunami caused a great amount of structural damage to the island and its villages, Oct. 1, 2009, in Pago Pago, American Samoa.

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