Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan 19, 2010: Staff Sgt. James Gresham, Company C, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, struck up a conversation with a few Haitians outside the main hospital and immediately was surrounded. “I wish I could speak Creole, so I could speak to more of them,” he said.

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