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Florestal remembers a pleasant childhood in Haiti, growing up near a beach.
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His unit learned it would leave the following day, giving Florestal hope he could both bring aid and track down dozens of relatives living in Port-au-Prince and in villages surrounding the capital.
ajc.com - News 2010
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Florestal left Haiti when he was 13 years old for a better life in the United States.
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Florestal responds in Creole - and surprised Haitians waiting in lines slap him on the back and shake his hand.
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His unit learned it would leave the following day, giving Florestal hope he could both bring aid and track down dozens of relatives living in Port-au-Prince and in villages surrounding the capital.
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Florestal said serving in Haiti has become a personal mission.
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Florestal is one of at least three Haitian-American paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne Division helping get sorely needed food, water and supplies to survivors of the magnitude-7. 0 earthquake that shattered this capital city last Tuesday.
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Florestal joined the Army in 1996 and has served twice in Iraq and once in Afghanistan.
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On Saturday afternoon, Florestal went with a group of paratroopers to another part of the golf course to walk through a tent city of 50,000 people that had formed since the quake.
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When Florestal hasn't been working as an interpreter, he's been asking quake victims if they have any information about his family.
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