![]() Her previous home was destroyed as her family and small dog huddled in a closet. The high school, a two-story 1950s building, has been demolished and lays in rows of rubble behind a chain-link fence decorated with painted wooden stars that memorialize the school and victims.Ī few blocks away, graduating senior Danielle Campbell sat on the front steps of her newly built house Friday with the just-released 2012 high school yearbook on her lap. We all lost something, and everyone here lost their high school.” “It’s going to be a sad, emotional day for a lot of people just to be at graduation. “It’s bittersweet,” said senior student Taylor Camden after high school seniors finished a commencement practice Friday. ![]() They went to classes their senior year in a shopping mall building that serves as the temporary school for 11th and 12th graders. Students who graduate Monday said they will do so with a mix of relief, sadness and gratitude. It also destroyed 7,500 buildings, including Joplin High School. Joplin is still recovering from the EF-5 tornado - the strongest rating possible - that claimed among its victims one graduating senior returning home from his commencement and six other public school students. “I’m pretty sure we will remember the tornado more than Obama’s speech,” said graduating senior Ethan Ritschel. REUTERS/Eric Thayerīut not in Joplin, Missouri, where President Barack Obama’s commencement address on Monday will come one year after the deadliest tornado in the United States in six decades killed 161 people. ![]() May 22 marks the one year anniversary of a deadly EF-5 tornado that ripped through the town, killing 161 people. A cross is seen in Joplin, Missouri May 17, 2012. ![]()
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