Southeast Missourian photo garners national attention
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
There crouches Jay McMullin, a step or two away from his FedEx truck, his left foot braced under the shin-deep raging water in the middle of a road-turned-river. His right hand is gripped around the hand of a 78-year-old man named Odell Bunch. There's a Ford pickup truck submerged, crooked in a ditch, water fender-high on one side as muddy waves splash past the truck and into a flooded field near Byrd Creek. It is an image that received a lot of attention last week, attention that McMullin would do just as well without.
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