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Vice President Joe Biden dons a Joplin High School baseball cap during a dedication ceremony for a combined high school and vocational school that replaces one destroyed by a deadly tornado more than three years ago, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, in Joplin, Mo. (AP Photo/The Joplin Globe, Laurie Sisk)
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FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2011 file photo, Whitney Benfield takes questions from her first grade class about the new tornado shelters outside Irving Elementary in Joplin, Mo. For the second time since a tornado ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20, 2013, killing 24 people including seven students at the Plaza Towers Elementary School, organizers plan to circulate an initiative petition calling for a statewide vote to fund the construction of school storm shelters. (AP Photo/The Joplin Globe, Roger Nomer, File)
