On the beach in Khao Lok, Thailand.

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Caption: On the beach in Khao Lok, Thailand, a cloud of floating Lanterns commemorates the first anniversary of the tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004. The massive waves, generated by an earthquake, killed 181,000 people in southern Asia and eastern Africa. In Thailand, the tsunami kilted 5,395 people and leveled 47 viLLages. It also devastated the...