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Specialist Matthew Offermann, left, and PFC Stephen Brandon, right, attempt to sleep after returning from their 12 hour shift manning road blocks to the Missouri National Guard headquarters set up in the Sikeston Armory on Friday morning, April 29, 2011. The National Guard set up check points along a second levee preventing residents from entering the part of Mississippi County that will be flooded if the Army Core of Engineers proceeds with their demolition of the Birds Point levee in an effort to protect the town of Cairo, Ill. at the expense of 130,000 acres of Missouri farm land and displacing over 200 people.
