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A year later, Myanmar remembers Cyclone Nargis

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May. 2, 2009
A year after Cyclone Nargis swept away entire villages, turned fertile rice paddies into wasteland and killed nearly 140,000, people across Myanmar marked the anniversary Saturday with quiet remembrance and prayer. The ruling military junta, however, planned...
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic