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USA, West Virginia, War, Einwohnerin Patricia M. Holland, nach zwei Schlafanfaellen im Rollstuhl, kuemmer sich um ihren Enkel Zackery (3,5), der am hyperplastischen Rechtsherzsyndrom und Down Syndrom leidet und Jeannette Leuis (38, blind), Behinderung, behindert, 20.11.2007, QFThe city of War in West Virginia, USA.Grandmother Patricia M. Holland (center) severely handicapped after two strokes takes care of her grandson Zackery, 3,5 years-old, who suffers of hypoplastic right heart syndrom and down syndrom due to his mothers drug abuse and of Jeannette Leuis, 38 yeras-old, blind since birth.The family lves in poverty.War is a small town inhabited by around 900 people at the most southern part of West Virginia in the Appalachian mountains.War is located within Mc Dowell county which is known to be the poorest county in the USA. The former coal mining town is haunted by unemployment, poverty, drug abuse (oxycotin). There is no other town in the USA called War.(Bildtechnik: sRGB, 36.39 MByte vorhanden) (KEYSTONE/LAIF/Daniel Rosenthal/laif)