Dave Kendall, from Carthage, Mo., raises a flag at a friend’s house as he helps clean up a devastated Joplin, Mo., neighborhood. An EF-5 tornado tore through much of the city, damaging hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 139 people.

First published in the May 29, 2011, 7:14 a.m. edition

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