Typhoon-Ravaged Philippines Villages Celebrate Christmas
Filipinos still recovering from Typhoon Haiyan are doing their best to get in the holiday spirit
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Pedro Lacandazo, 57, visits the grave of his wife, children and grandchildren along with two of his only surviving grandchildren John Paul Madrigal (front R), 12, and Gerald Labuac, 8, at a vacant lot turned mass grave site in San Joaquin town at Palo, Leyte province, central Philippines December 23, 2013. Lacandazo faces a gloomy Christmas with the loss of 22 family members, when Supertyphoon Haiyan swept ashore in the central Philippines on November 8 and reduced almost everything in its path to rubble.
