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"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

Thomas Paine

US patriot & political philosopher

(1737-1809)

Marina Vance, center, is comforted by memebers of the Blue Star Mothers of Amecia during the Wreaths Across America ceremony at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006, in Boulder City. Vance lost her son Army Specialist Ignacio Ramirez, 22, in Iraq this year. Today memorial wreaths were placed at over 270 state and national cemeteries and monuments to honor fallen heroes in all branches of the millitary.
   
Alicia, who makes a living as a prostitute at the Chicken Ranch brothel, sits in her bedroom with the house cat Meow-Meow at the historic Chicken Ranch brothel Thursday, April 10, 2008, in Pahrump, Nevada. Alicia, who has been with Chicken Ranch off and on for 10 years, conducts business with clients in her bedroom. Alicia has a tattoo of the word "Famous" over her left breast, which she claims helps clients to recognize her.
   
Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. are shown at the start of the Democratic debate at the Cox Pavilion at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007 in Las Vegas.
     
  
Elavyon Hamilton, 2, who is held by her mother Desiree, receives an immunization from Marie Ricci at Otto Merida Desert Villas Monday, April 21, 2008. Southern Nevada Immunization Coalition offered free immunizations at the public housing development and throughout town in recognition of National Infant Immunization Week and Cover the Uninsured Week. Elavyon's sister Mandijia, 3, watches.
   
Air Force One prepares to depart Nellis Air Force Base after President Barack Obama spoke regarding the Recovery Act in Las Vegas.
   
Sixth graders of Ron Hoffman's class view an image of Osama Bin Laden, among other images related to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, during a lesson at Findlay Middle School Monday, Sept. 11, 2006.
     
  
A Flag of Honor, containing the names of the 2,996 victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks flaps in the wind at the Healing Field memorial at Palm Mortuaries, Cemeteries and Crematories on North Jones Boulevard Tuesday, September 11, 2007. The flag is among 3,000 American flags that are on display through the end of the month. Donations will be accepted to benefit the Salvation Army of Las Vegas.
   
Members of the public and the Nevada Workers Against the War protest on the sidewalk outside the Venetian hotel-casino Saturday, March 22, 2008, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
   
Memorial Gardens cemetery grounds keeper Rick Fabroski cleans out debris from the inside of a freshly dug grave Thursday, Nov. 11, 2004. Though cemeteries and the idea of death is frightful to many, people make a decent living in the business of mortuary science and related jobs. The image is one of several in a photo story on “The Business of Death."
     
  
Police take custoy of a youth involved in a kidnapping and high-speed chase that ended on school grounds at Southern Ilinois University in Carbondale, Ill.
  
Lance Corporal Rocco Garcia, 25, hugs his wife Roxana Mungia, 24, at Nellis Air Force Base Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007 upon returning home with the Marine Forces Rescue Unit, Detachment 2 Bravo Company 6th Motor Transport Battalion in Taqaddum, Iraq. The marines left Las Vegas on February 19. Mungia brought her husband a single red rose.
   
Kadedra Fowler, 22, is comforted by her cousin Wednesday, June 13, 2007, while family members speak at a relative's home about her 24-year-old sister Denise Glasco, who was shot and killed by Las Vegas police on Tuesday. Finnell holds a photograph of Glasco Wednesday, June 13, 2007.
     
  
A voter enters the voting poll at Shadow Hill Baptist Church in Summerlin shortly after sunset on Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008.
   
Volunteers and members of the Nevada Department of Wildlife carrywild big horn sheep after they are captured by helicopter from the River Mountains earlySaturday, Oct. 22, 2005. The sheep were given booster shots and kept overnight to be released at Virgin Valley the next morning.
   
Lori Kauppinen pauses at a sidewalk makeshift memorial Saturday, where friend Anne Coleman was killed Friday, Sept. 21, 2001. Coleman was struck by a car while crossing Douglas Drive on her bicycle. "It couldn't of happened to a nicer person. She was beautiful, funny, so young and full of life," said Kauppinen.
     
  
Lonnie Post disperses a 9-blend seed across a burnt portion of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area near Pine Creek Canyon in the scenic loop drive Saturday, March 3, 2007. Post was among a group of 45 volunteers who devoted time to hand seed 24 acres at Red Rock Canyon that burnt last year in a lightning-spared wildfire.
   
Mark Grismanauskas, center, 4, and brother Cole, 6, wait for their father Erik to return from a 17-day search and rescue for Hurricane Katrina victims in Louisiana. Family members waited with signs and gifts at the FEMA program office Friday, Sept. 16, 2005 in Las Vegas.
   
Lightning strikes over the northeast portion of the Las Vegas valley Monday, July 17, 2006.