“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed.”

— Barack Obama

On a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070510/asp/foreign/story_7758325.asp (9 May 2007)
2007

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