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Family members look on as the USNS Comfort emerges from the fog to moor at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., March 13, 2010, en route to its homeport in Baltimore. The Comfort has returned from a seven-week deployment to Haiti as part of Joint Task Force Haiti's disaster-relief operations. Haiti was hit by a magnitude 7 earthquake Jan. 12.

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Family members look on as the USNS Comfort emerges from the fog to moor at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., March 13, 2010, en route to its homeport in Baltimore. The Comfort has returned from a seven-week deployment to Haiti as part of Joint Task Force Haiti's disaster-relief operations. Haiti was hit by a magnitude 7 earthquake Jan. 12.

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