2010 Haiti Earthquake Relief
The ship performed logistical support for United States Coast Guard helicopters undergoing relief operations for the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
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Famous quotes containing the words haiti, earthquake and/or relief:
“For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)
“Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Western hospitality prevails; it is reminiscent of the kind displayed earlier here by a host who said to an unexpected guest, Stranger, you take the wold skin and the chaw o sowbellyIll rough it.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)