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A man salvages stuff from what left of a bedroom of his tornado devastated home on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb Tuesday after a monstrous tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people. Nine children were among the dead and entire neighborhoods vanished, with often the foundations being the only thing left of what used to be houses and cars tossed like toys and heaped in big piles. AFP PHOTO/Jewel SamadJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images
The Oklahoman, Nate Billings / AP
Rebekah Stuck hugs her son, Aiden Stuck, 7, after she found him in front of the destroyed Briarwood Elementary after a tornado struck south Oklahoma City and Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. Aiden Stuck was inside the school when it was hit.
Richard Rowe / Reuters
A woman walks through debris after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013.
Paul Hellstern / The Oklahoman / AP
A tornado passes across south Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013.
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This combination of Associated Press photos shows left, a neighborhood in Moore, Okla., in ruins on May 4, 1999, after a tornado flattened many houses and buildings in central Oklahoma, and right, flattened houses in Moore on May 20, 2013.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
Aftermath of the deadly F5 Blackwell Tornado, Oklahoma, May 1955.
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The aftermath of a tornado that hit the town of Shawnee, Oklahoma on May 20.
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Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder grimaces during Game Two of the Western Conference Quarterfinals of the 2013 NBA Playoffs at Chesapeake Energy Arena on April 24, 2013 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Jim Arego / The Oklahoman / AP
In this Nov. 15, 1975 file photo, University of Oklahoma quarterback Steven Davis (5) sweeps for a 15-yard gain against Missouri in Columbia, Mo.
REUTERS/Steve Sisney
Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant (24) shoots under the arms of Oklahoma City Thunder's Serge Ibaka (R) as the Oklahoma City Thunder plays the Los Angeles Lakers in Oklahoma City February 23, 2012. At left are Andrew Bynum (17) and Russell Westbrook (0).
Sue Ogrocki / AP Photo
Former Oklahoma State basketball player Darrell Williams, foreground, is driven away from the Payne County Jail in Stillwater, Okla., Friday, Oct. 12, 2012, after he avoided more time behind bars when a judge gave him a suspended sentence in a sexual assault case in which Williams insisted he was innocent.
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Jeremy Lin #17 of the New York Knicks shoots over Cole Aldrich #45 of the Oklahoma City Thunder on January 14, 2012 at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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Nicknamed the Commerce Comet, Mickey Mantle slides into base at Yankee Stadium in New York, NY in June 1956. One of Mantle's nicknames was the Commerce Comet -- Commerce was the name of his hometown in Oklahoma -- and he indeed had exceptional speed. (He was offered a football scholarship to the University of Oklahoma.) Oddly, though, he only stole 153 bases in his big league career.
Matt Slocum / AP
Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach walks back to the sidelines after a timeout in an NCAA college football game against Oklahoma State in Lubbock, Texas on Nov. 8, 2008. Texas Tech has fired football coach Mike Leach.
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Jason Owen walks past an open door as he helps his mother to salvage items from her uncle's home after it was almost destroyed by a tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, May 23, 2013.
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June Simson embraces her cat Sammi after she found him standing on the rubble of her destroyed home on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma.
Rick Wilking / REUTERS
Kelli Kannady weeps after finding a box of photographs of her late husband in the rubble near what was her home in Moore, Oklahoma May 21, 2013.
The Oklahoman, Paul Hellstern / AP
Children wait for their parents to arrive at Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City, Okla, May 20, 2013
Larry Downing / REUTERS
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks next to Vice President Joe Biden (L) about the devastating tornadoes and severe weather impacting Oklahoma, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, May 21, 2013.
Brett Deering / Getty Images
Piles of debris lie around the north side of Plaza Towers Elementary school after it was damaged by the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.
Brett Deering / Getty Images
Downed utility poles block the road as a family walks south on Sante Fe Avenue at SW 19th Street after yesterday's deadly tornado on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma.
The Oklahoman, Chris Landsberger / AP
Kay James holds her cat as she sits in her driveway after her home was destroyed by the tornado that hit the area on Monday, May 20, 2013 in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Jim Arego / The Oklahoman / AP
In this Nov. 15, 1975 file photo, University of Oklahoma quarterback Steven Davis (5) sweeps for a 15-yard gain against Missouri in Columbia, Mo.
Sue Ogrocki / AP
In this Oct. 27, 2012, file photo, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o stands on the sidelines during an NCAA college football game against Oklahoma in Norman, Okla.
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A dust cloud looms over Boise City, Oklahoma, April 15, 1935.
Michael Rougier—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Singing cowboy Gene Autry (second from left) stands outside the post office in an Oklahoma town named for him, 1948.
Paul B. Southerland – AP
William Fish, Oklahoma City Street Department, removes a tree downed during an early morning thunderstorm from the roadway in the 5800 block of Grove Ave. in Warr Acres Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012.
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Kevin Durant #35 of the Oklahoma City Thunder arrives before taking on the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center on March 29, 2012 in Los Angeles, Calif.
Nina Leen—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Teenagers at a party in 1947 in Tulsa, Oklahoma; LIFE reported that they "munch doughnuts and sip cokes whenever they are not dancing with serious faces to sentimental music."
LIFE Magazine—Time & Life Pictures
Thomas E. Hays, 20, Army, WO, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1939.
Sue Ogrocki, File / AP
In this April 7, 2011 file photo, New York Times Beirut Bureau Chief Anthony Shadid discusses his capture by Moammar Gadhafi's forces in Libya, during a talk at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum in Oklahoma City.
Alfred Eisenstaedt—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Gubernatorial candidate Gomer Smith talks to small gathering from the bed of a feed truck, Wagoner, Oklahoma, in June 1942.
Bob Fellows—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Tony Kubek photographs Mickey Mantle in 1961. Few players have been more closely associated with the Yankee pinstripes over the years than Mickey Charles Mantle (1931 – 1995). A self-described "country boy" from Oklahoma, he arrived in New York as a rookie in 1951 and over the course of his 18-year career he set records, won championships (seven World Series titles), and awed fans, opponents and teammates with his unique combination of power and speed.
Leonard McCombe—TIME & LIFE Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Bob Hope, who hosted (or co-hosted) the Academy Awards 19 times over his long career, appears to pick something off Betty Grable's sweater; standing above them on the steps are Shirley Jones -- then famous for the movie musicals Oklahoma! and Carousel -- and MGM idol Van Johnson.
Bill Waugh / Reuters
"Piedmont, Oklahoma, May 24, 2011"
An official searches for a missing child after a tornado ripped through the Falcon Lake Area of Piedmont, Oklahoma. Several tornadoes touched down in the region.
Hans Deryk / Reuters
Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow celebrates after the team scored a touchdown against the Oklahoma Sooners.
David McNeese for TIME
Wheat from Keith Kisling's Oklahoma farm has gone to Indonesia as part of the IRD program.
AP
The gurney in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
Sue Ogrocki / AP
David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma and former Democratic Senator
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A Freedmen family in the Oklahoma Territory, 1900.
Isaac Brekken / AP
Miss Oklahoma Lauren Nelson, center, is congratulated by her competitors after being crowned Miss America 2007 at the Miss America pageant at the Aladdin Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Monday, Jan. 29, 2007.
J. PAT CARTER/AP
Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating: Among those tipped to become FBI director
ROGER KLOCK/THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN/AP
Joyce Gilchrist, Oklahoma City Police Department forensic chemist
J. PAT CARTER/AP
Attorney General John Ashcroft toured the Oklahoma City National Memorial Site
STEVE LISS FOR TIME
Who Sits Here? The 168 chairs at the Oklahoma City Memorial, each individually dipped in bronze, commemorate the dead and inspire the living
MARIO TAMA/AFP
Bill Clinton hugs breast cancer survivor Tonia Conine in Oklahoma
STEVE LISS FOR TIME
REFLECTION: Visitors at the Oklahoma memorial's entrance
J. PAT CARTER -- AP
In Oklahoma, 10-year-old girls compete in soccer tryouts
