The Gulf Coast is host to memories, vacations and livelihoods. Click to see reader images of their special places that are threatened by the oil spill from Galveston, Texas to the Florida Keys.
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Galveston mayor Joe Jaworski, center-left , joins about 300 people for a group dance at an intersection in The Strand historic district in Galveston, Texas on Sept. 12, 2010. The dancers were celebrating recovery efforts two years after Hurricane Ike. Monday was the second anniversary of the storm t