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  • Kia Head along carries Christian Searcy in her arms while protecting their faces from wind and sand blown in from an outer band from Hurricane Irene in Tybee Island, Ga., Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. Hurricane Irene is expected to pass off shore of coastal Georgia but officals are still banning swimmers for the water due to high winds and rough seas.  (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
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  • Hours after the shootings, it had become clear that a white gunman killed the nine members of the South's oldest African Methodist Episcopal church because they were black. Community prayer and healing vigil events following the shootings helped bring people together. As a result, Charleston did not erupt into violence.  Instead, people gathered together at “Mother Emanuel”  in peace, love and prayer to start the healing process.
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  • Overcome by grief, Clarissa Jackson, left, is comforted by her friend Gillettie Bennett, right, as they wait in line at Emanuel A.M.E. Church. In Charleston, the church is affectionately known as “Mother Emanuel,” a nod to its age and its eminence in the community.
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  • Overcome by grief, Clarissa Jackson, left, is comforted by her friend Gillettie Bennett, right, as they visit the makeshift memorial on the sidewalk in front of Mother Emanuel on June 21, 2015. In Charleston, the church is affectionately known as “Mother Emanuel,” as a nod to its age and its eminence in the community.
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  • A woman leaves a community prayer and healing vigil, on June 19, 2015, with two yellow roses a few days following the shootings at Charleston’s Mother Emanuel. Hours after the shootings, it had become clear that a white gunman killed the nine members of the South's oldest African Methodist Episcopal church because they were black. As a result, Charleston did not erupt into violence.  Instead, people gathered together at “Mother Emanuel” in peace, love and prayer to start the healing process.
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  • Members of the Charleston County Sheriff's Office stand guard at the front doors of Mother Emanuel during the first worship service on Sunday, June 21, 2015. The first service was the first step to helping the congregation cope with tragic events just four days before.
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  • Buddhist Raymond Smith kneels in prayer after burning incense as an offering at the memorial at Mother Emanuel on June 21, 2015. Weather it is to Jesus, Elohim, Allah, or Buddha, soft prayers, preaching and singing can be heard throughout the day in front of the South's oldest A.M.E. church.
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  • The pilgrimage continues for days at the memorial in front of the church. A minister preaches outside the church to the many that have traveled to lay flowers, sing hymns and kneel in prayer.
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  • Rest in peace; pray for peace. Words of hope, love, and courage are seen along the streets as hundreds of visitors identify places to leave their messages on June 30, 2015.
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  • Singing hymns with a crowd outside the church, Carolyn Richardson, center, raises her hand in reverence to Jesus on June 19, 2015.
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  • The flag draped casket of Rev. Daniel Lee Simmons, a Vietnam Veteran, is carried out of church following his funeral service. Simmons was the final member of the Emanuel Nine to be laid to rest.
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  • Members of the Charleston County Sheriff's Office stand guard at the church’s front doors during the first worship service after the mass shootings.
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  • Rest in peace; pray for peace. Words of hope, love, and courage are seen along the streets as hundreds of visitors identify places to leave their messages.
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  • As the congregation of Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church grieves, a pilgrimage occurs daily at a growing makeshift memorial for nine parishioners killed during a Bible study class. The memorial became a place where anyone could come to heal with prayers, songs, and tears. Just two days after the shootings, the men of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. raise their hands to lead a crowd in hymns. Each day, hundreds flock to the South's oldest African Methodist Episcopal church to show support and witness the scene.
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  • The flag draped casket of Rev. Daniel Lee Simmons, a Vietnam Veteran, is carried out of church following his funeral service on June 30, 2015. Simmons was the final member of the Emanuel Nine to be laid to rest.
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  • Weather it is to Jesus, Elohim, Allah, or Buddha, soft prayers, preaching and singing can be heard throughout the day in front of the church. Buddhist Raymond Smith kneels in prayer after burning incense as an offering at the memorial.
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  • At times the scene outside the church seems more like a tourist attraction than a memorial. While mourners gather in prayer, tourists take cell phone photos where nine people were shot to death during a Bible study class.
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  • Singing hymns with a crowd outside the church, Carolyn Richardson, center, raises her hand in reverence to Jesus.
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  • The shadows of mourners, lit by lights from television news crews, move across the memorial in front of the church. Hours earlier, shooting suspect Dylann Roof was captured and charged with killing nine parishioners.  One of the nine included the church's pastor and State Senator Rev. Clementa Pinckney.
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  • But true to my mother's memory we turned a somber moment into a joyous memory my wife and I will always remember. So we toured the Crescent City of New Orleans to enjoy its culture. The Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis King of France which overlooks Jackson Square. A collection of Instagram photos from our travels to Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Kenner, Louisiana. (© Copyright Photo/Stephen Morton)
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  • While mourners gather in prayer a tourists drives by to take cell phone photos of the church on June 19, 2015, where days earlier nine people were shot to death during a Bible study class. At times the scene outside the church seems more like a tourist attraction than a memorial.
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  • Eighty two-year-old Evelyn Greer walks past the head stone of her cousin Lee Basiden at Gould Cemetery Monday, June 21, 2010 in Harris Neck, Ga. Greer has her mother, two brother, a sister host of uncles aunts and cousins buried in Harris Neck's cemetery. (Stephen Morton for The New York Times)
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  • Eighty two-year-old Evelyn Greer walks past the head stone of her cousin Lee Basiden at Gould Cemetery Monday, June 21, 2010 in Harris Neck, Ga. Greer has her mother, two brother, a sister host of uncles aunts and cousins buried in Harris Neck's cemetery. (Stephen Morton for The New York Times)
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  • Walking from past to present, 82-year-old Evelyn Greer walks from the home her mother built in the 1940s, when she was a teenager living in Harris Neck, Ga., to the mobile home next door where she lived as adult. Greer's  family was forced from their land after the Federal government, via eminent domain, confiscates the 2,687 acres of Harris Neck for the stated purpose of national security to build an Army airfield. (Stephen Morton for The New York Times)
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  • One of the most vivid memories Evelyn Greer said she has, is the one of her she and her mother moving this iron bed from her childhood home on Harris Neck, Tuesday, June 22, 2010 in Harris Neck, Ga. Greer's  family was forced from their land after the Federal government, via eminent domain, confiscates the 2,687 acres of Harris Neck for the stated purpose of national security to build an Army airfield. (Stephen Morton for The New York Times)
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  • Eighty two-year-old Evelyn Greer says she is going back to Harris Neck one way or another as she uses a cane to walk out of her apartment Monday, June 21, 2010 in Darien, Ga. Greer now lives small community miles from the home her mother built as the first family home in the mid 1940s. (Stephen Morton for The New York Times)
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  • Eighty two-year-old Evelyn Greer walks past the head stone of her cousin Lee Basiden at Gould Cemetery Monday, June 21, 2010 in Harris Neck, Ga. Greer has her mother, two brother, a sister host of uncles aunts and cousins buried in Harris Neck's cemetery. (Stephen Morton for The New York Times)
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  • Eighty two-year-old Evelyn Greer walks past the head stone of her cousin Lee Basiden at Gould Cemetery Monday, June 21, 2010 in Harris Neck, Ga. Greer has her mother, two brother, a sister host of uncles aunts and cousins buried in Harris Neck's cemetery. (Stephen Morton for The New York Times)
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  • Vice President Mike Pence and his mother Nancy Pence Fritsch, right, wave while walking in the St. Patrick's Day parade Saturday, March 17, 2018, in Savannah, Ga. Irish immigrants to Savannah and their descendants have been celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a parade since 1824. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
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  • BEAUFORT, SC - JULY 14: CJ Cummings, center, listens to his mother Savasha Cummings in their home on July 14, 2014 in Beaufort, South Carolina.  Cummings is a 14-year-old power lifter who has been lauded as the next great home for an American weightlifting medal at the Olympics. (Photo by Stephen B. Morton for The Washington Post)
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  • Eighty two-year-old Evelyn Greer walks among several family members buried at Gould Cemetery Monday, June 21, 2010 in Harris Neck, Ga. Greer has her mother, two brother, a sister host of uncles aunts and cousins buried in Harris Neck's cemetery. (Stephen Morton for The New York Times)
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  • Evelyn Greer walks up the old family home Monday, June 21, 2010 in Harris Neck, Ga. Greer said her mother first built the family home in the mid 1940s, outside what was then the Army Airfield at Harris Neck. Greer's  family was forced from their land after the Federal government, via eminent domain, confiscates the 2,687 acres of Harris Neck for the stated purpose of national security to build an Army airfield. (Stephen Morton for The New York Times)
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  • Vice President Mike Pence, center, his mother Nancy Pence Fritsch, right, and his wife Karen Pence wave while walking in the St. Patrick's Day parade Saturday, March 17, 2018, in Savannah, Ga. Irish immigrants to Savannah and their descendants have been celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a parade since 1824. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
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  • Vice President Mike Pence, center, his wife Karen Pence, left, and his mother Nancy Pence Fritch, right, march in the St. Patrick's Day parade Saturday, March 17, 2018, in Savannah, Ga. Irish immigrants to Savannah and their descendants have been celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a parade since 1824. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
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  • Vice President Mike Pence, center, his wife Karen Pence, left, and his mother Nancy Pence Fritch, right, march in the St. Patrick's Day parade Saturday, March 17, 2018, in Savannah, Ga. Irish immigrants to Savannah and their descendants have been celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a parade since 1824. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
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  • OLIVER, GA - DEC., 15, 2016: Lynda Beam  holds a photography of her mother taken in the 1950 at TooHolly farm, Thursday, December 15, 2016, in Oliver, Ga. (Photo by Stephen B. Morton for Georgia Forestry Magazine)
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  • A woman leave the Mother Emanuel AME community prayer and healing vigil with two roses, Friday, June 19, 2015 near the   in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
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  • Thousands gathered together for the Mother Emanuel AME community prayer and healing vigil on the College of Charleston campus, Friday, June 19, 2015 near the   in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
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  • OLIVER, GA - DEC., 15, 2016: Lynda Beam  holds a photography of her mother taken in the 1950 at TooHolly farm, Thursday, December 15, 2016, in Oliver, Ga. (Photo by Stephen B. Morton for Georgia Forestry Magazine)
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  • Four-year-old Bella Evans, center, along with her mother Tabitha Evans, left, and grandmother Janice Shell, right, of Atlanta walk down the cobble stone River Street during the 189th St. Patrick's Day celebration, Friday Mar. 15, 2013 in Savannah, Ga. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
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