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U.S. Army Spc. Collen Parent works through the night bulldozing sand to close a strait between two peninsulas near Grand Isle, La., May 9, 2010. The closure will be a secondary defense in addition to the boom line in the Gulf of Mexico to prevent oil from reaching further inland. Parent is a heavy equipment operator assigned to the Louisiana National Guard’s 922nd Horizontal Engineer Company, 769th Engineer Battalion.

THROUGH THE NIGHT

U.S. Army Spc. Collen Parent works through the night bulldozing sand to close a strait between two peninsulas near Grand Isle, La., May 9, 2010. The closure will be a secondary defense in addition to the boom line in the Gulf of Mexico to prevent oil from reaching further inland. Parent is a heavy equipment operator assigned to the Louisiana National Guard’s 922nd Horizontal Engineer Company, 769th Engineer Battalion.

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