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Can-do spirit prevails in Mississippi
Not waiting for government handouts, citizens help themselves
By Martin Savidge
Correspondent NBC News
Updated: 7:12 p.m. CT Nov 3, 2005
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BOGALUSA, La. - We are off the map in Mississippi. You have to be a local to find Lakeshore. At the local Baptist church, the only thing left is the steeple.
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__________________ But faith is still strong. It is
not moving mountains, but building homes, one at a time, starting with James Bobbit.
Bobbit and other volunteers here are using a donated saw and turning his own broken trees into 2x4s for the new home he wants to build. But they're not just rebuilding Bobbit's home.
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