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IN THE MARSH OF CAMERON PARISH, La. (AP) _ craned his neck from the airboat as it circled a patch of brown marsh grass. The runaway coffin was not where it was supposed to be. Johnson pulled up to a pile of rocks, killed the motor and hopped out. After a few minutes of scouring along the tall, reedlike grass, he flagged down two fishermen. "Can you possibly take me along the shoreline?" Johnson asked. "I'm looking for a casket." Beyond the usual, dismal rebuilding, left another grim task when it struck last month: Its 13-foot storm surge washed an estimated 200 caskets out of their graves, ripping through most of Cameron Parish's 47 cemeteries and others in southwest and coastal . Some...
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