15 Photos Of Resilience In Oklahoma

    The American spirit is strong and on full display in Moore, Oklahoma following a devastating tornado that left a mile-and-a-half path of destruction in its wake on Monday.

    Michael Rusch
    by Michael Rusch

    BuzzFeed News Reporter

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    Brennan Linsley / AP

    At sunrise, an American flag blows in the wind atop the rubble of a destroyed home in Moore, Oklahoma.

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    RICK WILKING / Reuters

    An American flag from the Plaza Towers elementary school is erected on poles in front of the school in Moore, Oklahoma.

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    BRYAN TERRY / AP

    Clark Gardner, at left, and another man place an American flag on debris in a neighborhood off of Telephone Road in Moore, Oklahoma.

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    An American flag is seen amongst the debris of a torando devastated house in Moore, Oklahoma.

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    Brad Loper / AP

    Scott Jackson hangs an American flag in the remains of a friend's garage in Moore, Oklahoma.

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    Brennan Linsley / AP

    An American flag blows in the wind at sunrise atop the rubble of a destroyed home a day after a tornado moved through Moore, Oklahoma.

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    RICK WILKING / Reuters

    An American flag flutters in the wind amid the debris near the Plaza Towers elementary school in Moore, Oklahoma.

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    A flag is tapped to a pole as it hangs in the foreground of destroyed houses and vehicles in Moore, Oklahoma.

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    ADREES LATIF / Reuters

    A flag is placed in the foundation of a flattened home day after a tornado devastated the town Moore, Oklahoma.

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    Brad Loper / AP

    An American flag flaps in the wind near Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma.

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    GENE BLEVINS / Reuters

    An American flag stands in the rubble of a neighborhood in Moore, Oklahoma.

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    Nate Billings / AP

    A man hangs an American flag on what is left of a tree in a neighborhood north of SW 149th between Western and Santa Fe in Moore, Oklahoma.

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    Mike Simons / AP

    An American flag adorns a tree amidst the rubble in Moore, Oklahoma.

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    Charlie Riedel / AP

    Jim Stubblefield, of Norman, Oklahoma raises a tattered American flag he found while helping his sister salvage items from her tornado-ravaged home.

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    Derick Brock from Mercy Chefs stops to fix an American flag flying amongst the debris of a torando devastated house in Moore, Oklahoma.