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Elliott Parker, of Town Creek, Ala., flies his cropduster across a cotton field in Lawrence County, Ala., Monday, June 11, 2001. The outspoken Parker has flown in this part of the Alabama since the late seventies, crashing three planes and losing five friends in cropdusting accidents. (Photo/Eric Schultz)
U.S. Army Specialist Jacob Bunger, of Seattle, WA, rides his unicycle on the flight line at Balad Air Base in Tikrit, Iraq, Thursday, November 8, 2007. Bunger's mother, who also rides a unicycle, sent him the unicycle in the hopes he would learn to ride it. Bunger will be in Iraq for 15 months and figures he has plenty of time to learn to ride on the flat , paved flight line where he works on the Raven Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Huntsville Fire and Rescue firefighters and training cadets practice their skills at a house fire. The house, scheduled for demolition, was burned to give fire cadets a chance to fight a real fire and for construction workers it was a chance to clear the lot. (Eric Schultz/Rocket City Photo)
Alabama Burlesque Festival, Flying Monkey (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
A man drinks a Pepsi next to a CocaCola sign in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Peace protest outside Redstone Arsenal Gate 9 Friday, April 7, 2017 in Huntsville, Ala. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Hundreds of people paid their respects as David Robinson, a District Chief with Huntsville Fire and Rescue, was laid to rest at Mayfair Church of Christ Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013 in Huntsville, Ala. Robinson, 52, died Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013 after a five-year struggle with cancer. Robinson, who revived the Huntsville Fire and Rescue Honor Guard, was surrounded by family, friends, and his beloved honor guard who carried him the the graveside service in the back of Huntsville Fire and Rescue Engine No. 4. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Alabama Burlesque Festival, Lowe Mill, (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
A contestant tries to maintain his composure during an ugly walk at southeast YMCA July 9, 1999 in Huntsville, AL. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Anne Sanders, a freshman at Sewanee, walks through the fog to her morning classes at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Daughter Stephanie McConnell and wife Joyce McConnell hold on to Air Force Veteran Bill McConnell's flag as he is buried at Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Ala, November 19, 2007. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Kadejah McCaulley, 17, kisses Hen, held by her mother, Demetreic McCaulley, after being rescued from a house fire Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 in Huntsville, Ala. A Huntsville firefighter, Hunter Robinson, saved a family's dog this morning when the pet ran back into the burning home after the two residents got out safely. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Rainstorm, Paris, 2008. Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
A man carries the Stars and Bars by a statue to Jefferson Davis at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Huntsville police investigator Bill Payne holds a murder suspect at gunpoint while he waits for backup on Evangel Drive Thursday, December 13, 2001. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
ARCHIVED PHOTO-Hollie McEwan, of Harvest, watches as newborn Jett McEwan reaches out for her wrapped in one of the Project Linus blankets at Huntsivlle Hospital Womens and Children's in Huntsville, Ala., Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. SCHULTZ (Swanstrom)
Santa, Matt Rosenblum, a member of the railroad museum, waves at children through the window on the Mercury and Chase Railroad Santa Train at the North Alabama Railroad Museum Sunday, December 2, 2012 in Huntsville, Ala. Santa visited with passengers on the train and the little ones can have their picture made with him. These leisurely Santa Train rides last about forty minutes and roll through rural northeast Madison County. The Santa train will run on schedule on the weekends, however tickets are sold out for this year. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Kendra Austin, 10, carries one of her grandmother's dolls from the wreckage of a mobile home on Champ Drive in New Hope, Ala., Saturday, November 24, 2001. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Caleb Maples and Abigail Maples, of Huntsville, sit in the archway of the First United Methodist Church chapel waiting for the parade to resume as thousands showed their support of veterans during the 2013 Veterans Day Parade through downtown Huntsville, Ala., Monday, Nov. 11, 2013. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Eva Randolph, 8, of Madison waits for family near a painting as Panoply managed to open for a couple of hours before rainy weather forced organizers to close the downtown outdoor arts festival Sunday, March 27, 2014 in Huntsville, Ala. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Tent City, a homeless camp under Interstate I-565, is home to dozens of homeless folks who have created their neighborhood from tents, wooden pallets and discarded furniture whose residents are scheduled to be removed after the holidays by local officials. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Eileen Howell, can barely control her excitement as her husband hears for the first time as Dr. William McFeely actives a revolutionary, surgically-implanted hearing device called Esteem in 66-year-old Farris McElreath, of Gainesville, Ga. at his Madison, Ala. office Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
A tornado passes over Holmes Avenue in Huntsville Thursday, Jan. 21, 2009 in Huntsville, AL. (Eric Schultz /Rocket City Photo)
Huntsville Fire and Rescue firefighters and training cadets pratice their skills at a house fire at 3205 Holmes Avenue Thursday, November 5, 2009. (Eric Schultz/Rocket City Photo)
DeKalb County Sheriff's Deputies stand watch next to a log home which was destroyed by a tornado in the early morning hours on November 30, 2016 in Flat Rock, Alabama. (Eric Schultz/Rocket City Photo)
Members of the Omega Team attend U.S. Space Camp as part of a leadership and team-building experience Tuesday March 14, 2017 at U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Members of the Omega Team attend U.S. Space Camp as part of a leadership and team-building experience Tuesday March 14, 2017 at U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)
Workers wait for a car to wash at Heavenly Grace Ministries, where workers try to better themselves and learn job skills at the carwash in Sheffield, Ala. Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Locals speak on how the new economic policies in Washington will affect them in the small towns of northwest Alabama. In this part of Alabama, dotted with small industrial towns just a few miles from the Tennessee state line, the Tennessee River eases though the oldest TVA dam into the low hills of the countryside. (Eric Schultz /Rocket City Photo)
Folks dance in the rain and celebrate the first man in space during Yuri's Night Saturday, April 22, 2017 at Lowe Mill in Huntsville Ala. (Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo)