09 26 2006 - Taylor Hardin and the East Bay boys cross country team stetch beneath a rainbow at Durant High School before competiting in the Ron Frost Invitational. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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09 26 2006 - After football practice, Durant High School. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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09 23 2006 - Gators QB Tim Tebow on the sidelines during the Gators' 26-7 win against Kentucky. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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09 23 2006 - The Florida marching band performs before the Gators' 26-7 win against Kentucky at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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09 20 2006 - On Monday night, New Orleans reopens the Louisiana Superdome for the first time since it was used a shelter of last resort during Hurricane Katrina. The undefeated Saints take on the Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night Football this week. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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09 20 2006 - Phil Walton, of Hammond, LA, sets up rigging for video displays outside the Superdome on Wednesday at the end of a long day of preparations. Walton has been doing work at the Superdome for 14 years and calls Monday's opening night "our Super Bowl." (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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09 20 2006 - In the hard-hit Lower 9th Ward district of New Orleans, roads and power lines sit in disrepair and only a few homes have been renovated a year after the storm. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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09 20 2006 - More than a year after Hurricane Katrina, the Hyatt and other downtown New Orleans high-rise buildings are still missing windows. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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09 20 2006 - The sun sets on the rebuilt Louisiana Superdome, a few days before its celebrated reopening. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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09 22 2006 - Four-year-old preschoolers Jonathan Barbara, Jada Kamuf and Morgan Nabors snack on apples and honey Friday at the Tampa Jewish Community Center to celebrate the start of Rosh Hashana. At sundown Friday, Jewish people around the world began celebrating the holiday that marks the beginning of the new year. Dipping the apples symbolizes a sweet new year, which began Friday by the lunar calendar. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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08 23 2006 - In high school, they were the Warriors of West Branch. And nine of them became warriors after high school, too. Out of a sense of duty, service. But something happened on the way to that homecoming parade. Carey Meissner holds a photograph of her son Lance Cpl. Dan McVicker in the front yard of her Ohio home. McVicker, 20, was killed October 6, 2005 when a roadside bomb detonated beneath the Humvee he was riding in outside Al Qaim, Iraq. Please read, Pride and Patriotism. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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08 24 2006 - On senior awards day in May 2003, the nine members of the West Branch class of 2003 who joined the Marines were called on stage. Many in the rural community remember the emotion of the moment as their young men prepared to head to war. All nine would spend time in Iraq over the next several years. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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08 25 2006 - The West Branch High School Warriors' band forms a "W" in the middle of the football field before their season opener in Beloit, Ohio. Cornfields stretch beyond the school in the heartland of America, where football games are the place to be on Friday nights. In 2002, then-senior Dan McVicker performed on the field as the school's assistant warrior chief. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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08 24 2006 - American flags fill the front yard of most houses in the farming community around West Branch in rural northeast Ohio. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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08 24 2006 - Cindy Morrow had hoped her son Wade wouldn't join the Marines after high school because of the war, but resigned herself to it because it was what he wanted. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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08 24 2006 - Cindy Morrow spends her days while her son, Wade, is overseas inside her trailer, smoking and searching for news about his unit on television. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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08 23 2006 - On the day of Dan McVicker's funeral, residents lined the streets of town holding signs and American flags along the funeral procession. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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08 23 2006 - Dan McVicker, 20, was killed October 6, 2005 when a roadside bomb detonated beneath the Humvee he was riding in outside Al Qaim, Iraq. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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08 25 2006 - Lance Cpl. Tim Hardy, a 2003 West Branch graduate, served in Iraq in 2005 with the Marine reserves. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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08 25 2006 - Tim Hardy is back home in Ohio, bartending at night at the Elm Inn and attending classes at Kent State University. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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08 25 2006 - Lance Cpl. Doug Osberg, a 2003 graduate of West Branch, joined the Marine reserves after high school and spent much of 2005 serving in Iraq. He plans to return for another tour of duty. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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08 25 2006 - The West Branch student section takes in the action. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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08 25 2006 - At the general store, the manager knows his customers by name and keeps track of which have picked up their morning paper. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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08 24 2006 - By late summer, corn reaches high and fills the fields near West Branch High School. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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09 15 2006 - The Armwood boys' cross country team runs under the bleachers at Lyle Flagg Field during practice on Friday afternoon while coaches and production crews from ESPNU set up around them for the nationally televised game against Jefferson. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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09 14 2006 - Kamaria Harris, 5, and Samantha Maiolo, 5, both kindergarteners at Kids Community College in Riverview, ride in their new vehicle for the first time Thursday chanting "New bus! New bus! New bus!" with other students. The Hillsborough County School Board approved an agreement this week to provide Kids Community College with the use of a surplus school bus after a suspicious fire destroyed the charter school's bus last month. The school will use the 29-passenger bus to bring their students to field trips and playgrounds off their campus. "It is the absolute right thing to do," said school board member Doretha Edgecomb. "This is all because we want those youngsters to have the very best opportunity." (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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09 13 2006 - TAMPA - Former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham at the Port of Tampa. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060907 - Robinson receiver / safety / punter Greg Ellingson can do it all. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060905 - Republican CFO candidate Tom Lee shares a moment with his son Brandon, 5, at the Greater Brandon Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday after winning his primary election. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060812 - Todd Wiseman is the director of a short film a group of NYU students and friends are producing around Tampa. Wiseman is an NYU film student and went to high school in New Tampa. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060812 - Chip Carter, who plays the dead body of Richard Leven, fans himself to keep cool between takes of their movie in the trunk of a car outside St. James United Methodist Church in Tampa Palms. Carter is the father of actor Jon Carter, who plays Jacob in the short film being produced around Tampa by a group of students. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060901-02 - Marching bands at Chamberlain High School and the University of Florida. (Times photos by Brian Cassella)
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20060901-02 - Left: Jefferson quarterback Stephen Garcia celebrates a late turnover during the Dragons' 35-0 rout of Chamberlain. Right: Florida freshman quarterback Tim Tebow jumps into the arms of senior quarterback Chris Leak after scoring his first collegiate touchdown in the Gators' 34-7 rout of Southern Miss. (Times photos by Brian Cassella)
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