A boy plays basketball outside his family's temporary home (a trailer provided by the government), where they now live. Their house was destroyed by the Joplin tornado of May 2011Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesA wall is raised on a Habitat for Humanity house, being built to replace one that was destroyed one year ago Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesA woman whose grandmother was killed by the tornado stands beside the remains of her relative's home. Behind her is the St John's Medical centre, also destroyed during the tornadoPhotograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
A girl practises on the front lawn of her parents' house for the high school drill team. Her parents' house was heavily damaged during the tornado but has since been rebuiltPhotograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesPeople pray in Cunningham Park during a ceremony to mark the first anniversary of the tornado in Joplin, MissouriPhotograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesA woman shows off the newly built tornado shelter behind her Habitat for Humanity homePhotograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesA man places an American flag next to where his house was before it was destroyed. He was in the house when the level EF-5 tornado hitPhotograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesA man helps build a Habitat for Humanity home on the spot where another house was knocked down last year Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesThe Joplin high school sign in front of the rubble of the school Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesA sign indicates the site of a new home, as the city is rebuiltPhotograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesA woman looks for items for a collage she is making from the detritus of her destroyed homePhotograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesYoung people spend a quiet moment together in front of a memorial built for their friend Lance Hare, who was killed by the tornadoPhotograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesA sign reading Hope on a fence around the rubble of the Joplin high schoolPhotograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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