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100 Days in Photographs

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In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina survivors in New Orleans' St. Bernard Parish await rescue on a roof spray-painted with messages to loved ones. Wrote history professor Douglas Brinkley: "I had felt immune to the disaster. ... Then this simple image of the forlorn roof, not at all graphic, cut like a knife. For painted in white on the rooftop was the simple saying: 'Love You Kid.'" Learn more and buy the book: 100 Days in Photographs: Pivotal Events That Changed The World. Photograph by David J. Phillip