October 8, 2025 • 17 mins
On this episode of Our American Stories, when the Joplin tornado struck in 2011, entire neighborhoods disappeared in minutes. Among the debris were family photographs, wedding portraits, baby pictures, graduation snapshots, carried by the wind and dropped miles from home. Thad Beeler began collecting the photos he found and searching for the people in them. What started as a small act of kindness became a mission to return memories that the storm had nearly taken forever. Beeler joins us to tell the story.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is Lee Habib and this is our American stories.
The May twenty second, twenty eleven Joplin tornado remains one
of the costliest tornadoes in American history. Despite this, the
disaster brought out the best and many people wanting to
help in any way they could. One of those people
was Thad Bieler, who found a unique way to lend
(00:30):
a hand to his fellow neighbor by founding the National
Disaster Photo Rescue Organization, a group which seeks to reunite
people with their lost photographs after disasters like Joplin.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Take it Away, Fad Well. I am Thad Beeler.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I live in Cartha's, Missouri, and am from Joplin, Missouri
and grew up there. I have multiple generations of family
that have grown up in Joplin. I spent a great
deal of time in the church. I grew up in
the church, loved the church. I have spent time as
a pastor and ministered to people there of all generations.
(01:08):
It's been a wonderful part of my life and it's
what brought us here today to talk about the photo
work we've done. It was a Sunday night, it was
six o'clock and we had Bible study at the church
(01:29):
in Carthage, and my parents live in Joplin. I knew
the weather was getting bad, and I was on the
phone with my dad and he was describing how the
clouds in the atmosphere looked, and I looked outside and
began to see some of it in Carthage, which was
(01:49):
a kind of a green look to the clouds and
to the sky, and come to find out that was
ground being churned up.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
While I was.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Talking to my dad, I lost connection with him on
his cell phone.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And I tried several times to get a hold of him.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And I was concerned, but not terribly concerned, because tornado
sirens are something.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That we're very used to here.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
We don't necessarily react in a frantic manner, but we
are always elevated during that time. And when I turned
on the weather channel, I see Mike Bettis standing in
front of what was left of the Saint John's Hospital
in Joplain, and we begin to see insulation things dropping
(02:49):
out of the sky all over Carthage. For most people,
they would be concerned because of what they were seeing.
What maybe most would know is that my parents were
directly west of the hospital about a mile, which means
that the tornado had passed over their house before it
got to the hospital. So as I talked to my wife,
(03:12):
I said, you know, I'm gonna come home here shortly,
and I said, we're going to have to go to Joplin,
because I really didn't know.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Finally I got down there and it was dark.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
By then, and it was like driving into a tunnel
without lights. I got to the end of the lights
of the street lights, and the lights of my truck
(03:46):
just didn't seem to penetrate the darkness. I could see
trees everywhere, cars turned upside down, power lines down everywhere.
There was a smell of gas, and there were fires,
and every single landmark from road sign to mailbox was gone.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
People are crawling out of their homes.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
There were people up and down the roads, wandering around
as if.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
They just didn't know where they were. People were lost.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
They were in their neighborhood, but they were lost. But
I got to them and they were fine. What was
a God's great miracle in their life was they didn't
have a basement in their home. They're on a single
story house and the neighborhood is loaded with trees. Well
(04:43):
it just so happened that the big, huge oak trees
that surrounded their home all fell on the roof of
their house. And if you've ever seen how a tornado works,
it finds its weakest point of these structures, and that's
how it blows the roof of well, it kept the
roof from blowing off except for a couple of areas
(05:05):
of home. So when I see them, of course they're
acstatic to see me. I'm glad that they're okay. I'm
thankful that everything's fine, and I'm going.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
By the grace of God, you're still here.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Because the neighbor's house, all that was left was the
center stairwell. So I spent time trying to assess their needs.
They weren't hurt, they were unharmed. We settled them down
and got them a place to be, and then I
come back the next day. And wow, when you come
(05:38):
back the next day, you thought you didn't know it
in the dark, you really don't know it. In the day,
there's a toaster in the kitchen with half a two
before driven through it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
But what was.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Amazing, and that hit me, not knowing what I know today,
was I walked down the hallway of my parents' house,
and the same things that were on the wall and
had always.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Been on the wall when we grew up, were still there.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And that was the pictures, our photographs, our family photos,
our family photos were there and sitting there, untouched, had
not been moved, weren't turncock eyed, not even touched. And
down the hallway I went into a bedroom which was
(06:34):
at the far end, and I looked out the window
and it hit me right then, my folks have their
pictures and the neighbor doesn't even have a house.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So the question comes is where did it all go?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And listening to the voice of Fadbealer, Joplin torn to
shreds on May twenty second by a monstrous tornado. One
hundred and sixty seven people lost their lives, more property
damage than anyone will care to witness when we come back.
More of Fadbeeler's story, Joplin's story here on our American story,
(07:30):
Leah Abib here, and I'm inviting you to help all
American story celebrate this country's two hundred and fiftieth birthday
only a short time away. If you want to help
inspire countless others to love America like we do and
want to help us bring the inspiring and important stories
told ear to millions for years to come. Please consider
making a tax deductible donation to our American Stories. Go
(07:51):
to Alamerican Stories dot com and click the donate button.
Give a little, give a lot, any amount helps. Go
to Alamerican Stories dot com and give, and we return
to our American Stories and the story of the National
(08:13):
Disaster Photo Rescue Organization, as told by its founder That Buehler,
Let's continue with the story.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
It is hard to know what is important in life
until you no longer have it. Our memories are cotted
snapshots all over our home, and we realize that without
those snapshots.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
We are losing part of our memory.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And I am sitting there walking through that from one
hundred feet with the neighbors of my parents gone, Oh
my gosh, all of those memories, all of those snapshots.
They no longer have.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Them, and we still do. You feel blessed, but all
at the same time.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You weep for them, because even though you have the
joy of knowing you still have it and you still
have your family, there are people who lost their lives
and then to think, on top of that, maybe they
were safe, and maybe they were okay, But now they
can build their house, but they no longer have that
great wedding fixture that's setting over the mantle, or their
(09:20):
children's pictures of when they were born, you know, in
Mama cradling them, or memories at church baptisms.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
None of that.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
We grieve that because there's nothing that takes the place
of that picture. The people may be standing beside you,
but the moment in time that those folks were together
in that moment is gone.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Well.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
As communities come together, and some communities come together better
or quicker than others.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
In the Joplin disaster.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
People came from everywhere, and they came quickly, and they
wanted to help. Local communities wanted to help and just
do something to make a difference. The people at the
church wanted to do something. They were most of them older,
weren't able to get out and pick up pieces of
wood and debris, but they could do something to try
to help their neighbors. And that's when we had a
(10:22):
gentleman come by the church and said, I found a
photograph in.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
My yard, and he said, what am I supposed to
do with it?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And that's when truly when the idea of the National
Disaster Photo Rescue was born. We started asking questions and
we saw on Facebook, good and tending people from everywhere
trying to connect these pictures that they were finding in
their neighborhoods, in their backyards, in their farm fields, out
(10:57):
in the street. They were picking them up as they
were trying to help people. They were posting them on
Facebook hoping that someone would see them so they.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Could get them back.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I sent a email, a blanket email, off to the
American Red Cross.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I had no idea what I was doing.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I basically said a prayer before I said it, and
I said, God, if this is supposed to go somewhere,
or this means something, then bear fruit from it. And
so three days later I got a call from a
gentleman's name was Michael, and Michael said, I heard that
you were interested in trying to return photographs and he says,
(11:36):
I've been looking for people that want to do the
same thing, and he says, I will help you if
you want to do this.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
So with his help with learning to do.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Press releases and the write equipment and how we were
supposed to scan. I don't know how he knew all
these things, and I will tell you if you're a
faith believer at all. Michael walked with me from about
June of twenty eleven through Christmas Day of two thousand
(12:09):
and thirteen. That was the last correspondence I heard from him,
and several times after that I wanted to go back
and tell him thank you and that I appreciated all
the work and everything he had done, but he had disappeared.
(12:30):
I went back to the American Red Cross and I said,
I'm trying to find Michael, and they looked and searched
through everything, and long story short, Michael doesn't exist with.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
The American Red Cross.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I've done everything I can to find him. So all
of this has been put together with the help of
so many people and faith believing people.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
People in the community just want to help.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Our first picture photograph that we gave back was the
first of September of twenty eleven, and it was such
a big homecoming for these folks to get the picture
back because they lost their brother.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Our local TV station, bless their hearts, were so helpful
and they would put three or five images that we
selected every day on an afternoon and evening broadcast. One
photograph in particular was actually it was a picture of pictures,
and if you have one of those long mirrors that
(13:45):
goes on the back of your bedroom door, someone had
taken this green frame, removed the mirror and placed photographs.
There had to be one hundred pictures on that frame.
The next day, I receive a phone call from a
lady who says, I think you may have my pictures.
(14:06):
She says, I saw it on the evening broadcast and
I have to come and pick them up. Will you
be there where I could pick them up tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And I said yes.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I didn't know specifically what she was referring to because
she was so anxious to just.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Come and pick it up. The next day, she walks
in and introduces herself.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
And she says, the photograph I'm looking for actually is
many photographs and it's in a green frame. I said, ma'am,
we have your pictures, and she broke down.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
She could not hold it.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
And what I didn't understand more than just about the
photographs and the fact that we had it, was it
was the only picture of her grandfather that was remaining
was a little picture in the center of that frame
with him and a half and a vest her life
was on and in that frame, and she says, I.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Got my life back.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I don't know how else to describe a situation where
you give somebody something back and they.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Say I got my life back because she did.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
And it was a blessing to me to know that
I can make such a difference over one frame in
somebody's life. It changes you when you hear stories like this.
It changes you as a person. First of all, you're
(15:46):
so grateful and thankful to be there for them. You're
thankful for your own life, and you realize just how
important these little, seemingly unimportant pieces of paper put people's
lives together. By the way, we are still giving away
pictures to this day, ten years later, we're still giving
(16:07):
them back.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
In total.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
In Joplin, we've reunited right at eighteen thousand and four
hundred photographs with over a thousand families. But for us,
it's never been asking for something in return, only being
willing to give to others. So many times as a pastor,
(16:32):
we tell our congregations that we need to be neighborly
to those around us. Sometimes we find it easier to
give money to someone who's going to a foreign land
to spread the word of God than it is to
be across the street from someone who's our neighbor to
ask them if you need God. This is a ministry
(16:56):
that completely takes away that veil. We're not there trying
to get money because we don't ask for anything. We're
not asking for their time, We're not asking for anything
except for them to have something that is so special
back what Jesus did on the Cross was to give
(17:17):
his life and ask for nothing and return. When we
give something and ask for nothing in return, I don't
know a more christ like thing. It is exactly what
we're supposed to be in the shadow of the Cross.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And a great job by Monty on the production and
a special thanks to Thad Bieler. And to find out
more about the National Disaster Photo Rescue, go to National
Disaster Photo Rescue dot org. Thad Beealer's story here on
our American Story
This is Lee Habib and this is our American stories.
The May twenty second, twenty eleven Joplin tornado remains one
of the costliest tornadoes in American history. Despite this, the
disaster brought out the best and many people wanting to
help in any way they could. One of those people
was Thad Bieler, who found a unique way to lend
(00:30):
a hand to his fellow neighbor by founding the National
Disaster Photo Rescue Organization, a group which seeks to reunite
people with their lost photographs after disasters like Joplin.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Take it Away, Fad Well. I am Thad Beeler.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I live in Cartha's, Missouri, and am from Joplin, Missouri
and grew up there. I have multiple generations of family
that have grown up in Joplin. I spent a great
deal of time in the church. I grew up in
the church, loved the church. I have spent time as
a pastor and ministered to people there of all generations.
(01:08):
It's been a wonderful part of my life and it's
what brought us here today to talk about the photo
work we've done. It was a Sunday night, it was
six o'clock and we had Bible study at the church
(01:29):
in Carthage, and my parents live in Joplin. I knew
the weather was getting bad, and I was on the
phone with my dad and he was describing how the
clouds in the atmosphere looked, and I looked outside and
began to see some of it in Carthage, which was
(01:49):
a kind of a green look to the clouds and
to the sky, and come to find out that was
ground being churned up.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
While I was.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Talking to my dad, I lost connection with him on
his cell phone.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And I tried several times to get a hold of him.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And I was concerned, but not terribly concerned, because tornado
sirens are something.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That we're very used to here.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
We don't necessarily react in a frantic manner, but we
are always elevated during that time. And when I turned
on the weather channel, I see Mike Bettis standing in
front of what was left of the Saint John's Hospital
in Joplain, and we begin to see insulation things dropping
(02:49):
out of the sky all over Carthage. For most people,
they would be concerned because of what they were seeing.
What maybe most would know is that my parents were
directly west of the hospital about a mile, which means
that the tornado had passed over their house before it
got to the hospital. So as I talked to my wife,
(03:12):
I said, you know, I'm gonna come home here shortly,
and I said, we're going to have to go to Joplin,
because I really didn't know.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Finally I got down there and it was dark.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
By then, and it was like driving into a tunnel
without lights. I got to the end of the lights
of the street lights, and the lights of my truck
(03:46):
just didn't seem to penetrate the darkness. I could see
trees everywhere, cars turned upside down, power lines down everywhere.
There was a smell of gas, and there were fires,
and every single landmark from road sign to mailbox was gone.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
People are crawling out of their homes.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
There were people up and down the roads, wandering around
as if.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
They just didn't know where they were. People were lost.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
They were in their neighborhood, but they were lost. But
I got to them and they were fine. What was
a God's great miracle in their life was they didn't
have a basement in their home. They're on a single
story house and the neighborhood is loaded with trees. Well
(04:43):
it just so happened that the big, huge oak trees
that surrounded their home all fell on the roof of
their house. And if you've ever seen how a tornado works,
it finds its weakest point of these structures, and that's
how it blows the roof of well, it kept the
roof from blowing off except for a couple of areas
(05:05):
of home. So when I see them, of course they're
acstatic to see me. I'm glad that they're okay. I'm
thankful that everything's fine, and I'm going.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
By the grace of God, you're still here.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Because the neighbor's house, all that was left was the
center stairwell. So I spent time trying to assess their needs.
They weren't hurt, they were unharmed. We settled them down
and got them a place to be, and then I
come back the next day. And wow, when you come
(05:38):
back the next day, you thought you didn't know it
in the dark, you really don't know it. In the day,
there's a toaster in the kitchen with half a two
before driven through it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
But what was.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Amazing, and that hit me, not knowing what I know today,
was I walked down the hallway of my parents' house,
and the same things that were on the wall and
had always.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Been on the wall when we grew up, were still there.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And that was the pictures, our photographs, our family photos,
our family photos were there and sitting there, untouched, had
not been moved, weren't turncock eyed, not even touched. And
down the hallway I went into a bedroom which was
(06:34):
at the far end, and I looked out the window
and it hit me right then, my folks have their
pictures and the neighbor doesn't even have a house.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So the question comes is where did it all go?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And listening to the voice of Fadbealer, Joplin torn to
shreds on May twenty second by a monstrous tornado. One
hundred and sixty seven people lost their lives, more property
damage than anyone will care to witness when we come back.
More of Fadbeeler's story, Joplin's story here on our American story,
(07:30):
Leah Abib here, and I'm inviting you to help all
American story celebrate this country's two hundred and fiftieth birthday
only a short time away. If you want to help
inspire countless others to love America like we do and
want to help us bring the inspiring and important stories
told ear to millions for years to come. Please consider
making a tax deductible donation to our American Stories. Go
(07:51):
to Alamerican Stories dot com and click the donate button.
Give a little, give a lot, any amount helps. Go
to Alamerican Stories dot com and give, and we return
to our American Stories and the story of the National
(08:13):
Disaster Photo Rescue Organization, as told by its founder That Buehler,
Let's continue with the story.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
It is hard to know what is important in life
until you no longer have it. Our memories are cotted
snapshots all over our home, and we realize that without
those snapshots.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
We are losing part of our memory.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And I am sitting there walking through that from one
hundred feet with the neighbors of my parents gone, Oh
my gosh, all of those memories, all of those snapshots.
They no longer have.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Them, and we still do. You feel blessed, but all
at the same time.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You weep for them, because even though you have the
joy of knowing you still have it and you still
have your family, there are people who lost their lives
and then to think, on top of that, maybe they
were safe, and maybe they were okay, But now they
can build their house, but they no longer have that
great wedding fixture that's setting over the mantle, or their
(09:20):
children's pictures of when they were born, you know, in
Mama cradling them, or memories at church baptisms.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
None of that.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
We grieve that because there's nothing that takes the place
of that picture. The people may be standing beside you,
but the moment in time that those folks were together
in that moment is gone.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Well.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
As communities come together, and some communities come together better
or quicker than others.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
In the Joplin disaster.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
People came from everywhere, and they came quickly, and they
wanted to help. Local communities wanted to help and just
do something to make a difference. The people at the
church wanted to do something. They were most of them older,
weren't able to get out and pick up pieces of
wood and debris, but they could do something to try
to help their neighbors. And that's when we had a
(10:22):
gentleman come by the church and said, I found a
photograph in.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
My yard, and he said, what am I supposed to
do with it?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And that's when truly when the idea of the National
Disaster Photo Rescue was born. We started asking questions and
we saw on Facebook, good and tending people from everywhere
trying to connect these pictures that they were finding in
their neighborhoods, in their backyards, in their farm fields, out
(10:57):
in the street. They were picking them up as they
were trying to help people. They were posting them on
Facebook hoping that someone would see them so they.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Could get them back.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I sent a email, a blanket email, off to the
American Red Cross.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I had no idea what I was doing.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I basically said a prayer before I said it, and
I said, God, if this is supposed to go somewhere,
or this means something, then bear fruit from it. And
so three days later I got a call from a
gentleman's name was Michael, and Michael said, I heard that
you were interested in trying to return photographs and he says,
(11:36):
I've been looking for people that want to do the
same thing, and he says, I will help you if
you want to do this.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
So with his help with learning to do.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Press releases and the write equipment and how we were
supposed to scan. I don't know how he knew all
these things, and I will tell you if you're a
faith believer at all. Michael walked with me from about
June of twenty eleven through Christmas Day of two thousand
(12:09):
and thirteen. That was the last correspondence I heard from him,
and several times after that I wanted to go back
and tell him thank you and that I appreciated all
the work and everything he had done, but he had disappeared.
(12:30):
I went back to the American Red Cross and I said,
I'm trying to find Michael, and they looked and searched
through everything, and long story short, Michael doesn't exist with.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
The American Red Cross.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I've done everything I can to find him. So all
of this has been put together with the help of
so many people and faith believing people.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
People in the community just want to help.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Our first picture photograph that we gave back was the
first of September of twenty eleven, and it was such
a big homecoming for these folks to get the picture
back because they lost their brother.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Our local TV station, bless their hearts, were so helpful
and they would put three or five images that we
selected every day on an afternoon and evening broadcast. One
photograph in particular was actually it was a picture of pictures,
and if you have one of those long mirrors that
(13:45):
goes on the back of your bedroom door, someone had
taken this green frame, removed the mirror and placed photographs.
There had to be one hundred pictures on that frame.
The next day, I receive a phone call from a
lady who says, I think you may have my pictures.
(14:06):
She says, I saw it on the evening broadcast and
I have to come and pick them up. Will you
be there where I could pick them up tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And I said yes.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I didn't know specifically what she was referring to because
she was so anxious to just.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Come and pick it up. The next day, she walks
in and introduces herself.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
And she says, the photograph I'm looking for actually is
many photographs and it's in a green frame. I said, ma'am,
we have your pictures, and she broke down.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
She could not hold it.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
And what I didn't understand more than just about the
photographs and the fact that we had it, was it
was the only picture of her grandfather that was remaining
was a little picture in the center of that frame
with him and a half and a vest her life
was on and in that frame, and she says, I.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Got my life back.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I don't know how else to describe a situation where
you give somebody something back and they.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Say I got my life back because she did.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
And it was a blessing to me to know that
I can make such a difference over one frame in
somebody's life. It changes you when you hear stories like this.
It changes you as a person. First of all, you're
(15:46):
so grateful and thankful to be there for them. You're
thankful for your own life, and you realize just how
important these little, seemingly unimportant pieces of paper put people's
lives together. By the way, we are still giving away
pictures to this day, ten years later, we're still giving
(16:07):
them back.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
In total.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
In Joplin, we've reunited right at eighteen thousand and four
hundred photographs with over a thousand families. But for us,
it's never been asking for something in return, only being
willing to give to others. So many times as a pastor,
(16:32):
we tell our congregations that we need to be neighborly
to those around us. Sometimes we find it easier to
give money to someone who's going to a foreign land
to spread the word of God than it is to
be across the street from someone who's our neighbor to
ask them if you need God. This is a ministry
(16:56):
that completely takes away that veil. We're not there trying
to get money because we don't ask for anything. We're
not asking for their time, We're not asking for anything
except for them to have something that is so special
back what Jesus did on the Cross was to give
(17:17):
his life and ask for nothing and return. When we
give something and ask for nothing in return, I don't
know a more christ like thing. It is exactly what
we're supposed to be in the shadow of the Cross.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And a great job by Monty on the production and
a special thanks to Thad Bieler. And to find out
more about the National Disaster Photo Rescue, go to National
Disaster Photo Rescue dot org. Thad Beealer's story here on
our American Story
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