2010 Haitian Relief
LSD 44 was deployed in January as part of rescue efforts after the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. On 18 January 2010, she anchored off Killick navy base and started relief operations.
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Famous quotes containing the words haitian and/or relief:
“The egg is back. The egg is back.”
—Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitian president. New York Times, p. 10A (September 6, 1994)
“If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)