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 Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“Farmers in overalls and wide-brimmed straw hats lounge about the store on hot summer days, when the most common sound is the thump-thump-thump of a hound’s leg on the floor as he scratches contentedly. Oldtime hunters say that fleas are a hound’s salvation: his constant twisting and clawing in pursuit of the tormentors keeps his joints supple.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)