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"Our Killing Fields"

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By Keith Kloor
Jun 14, 2009 7:16 PMNov 20, 2019 4:15 AM

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A few years ago, a ranger at Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument told me that this would be a historic trail in fifty years. In the meantime, the tragedy continues:

Already this year, 79 of the dead have been recovered. The season of death, deep summer, has not even begun.

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