Haiti mourns dead, looks ahead
PORT-AU-PRINCE — At 4:53 p.m., Haiti fell silent. It was a rare quiet time — 35 seconds — for this boisterous city normally filled with the sounds of the almost one million people who live on the street. Some marked this painful anniversary in bed, the hurt of memories of the 7.0 earthquake that killed so many a year ago too much to bear. Others visited cemeteries and mass graves where tiny wooden crosses mark the barren land where 200,000 of the estimated 300,000 people who died now lay. From New York, Washington and Miami to Port-au-Prince,…
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