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Up Close and Personal View of the Destruction in Joplin

The Villa Duchesne family makes donations, tours tornado-ravaged Joplin, MO.

A million words have been written and thousands of pictures taken, but you cannot comprehend the full scope of the disaster caused by the EF 4 tornado in Joplin, MO unless you see it up close and personal. Thousands of lives have been disrupted. Some 151 residents of the community are dead. At the last second, graduation ceremonies at Joplin High School were moved to Missouri Southern State University to accommodate all the family and friends forced to move indoors because of pending storms. If families, relatives and students had their graduation at the high school, the death toll would likely have been in the thousands. The theatre at the school and the rest of the grounds are in almost total ruination. Everything in a 6-mile area, from …

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