Joplin, Missouri (CNN) -- Like nearly every high school senior who has donned a cap and gown, Scott Lauridsen was excited. Finally, after four years at Joplin High School, it was time to go. Graduate. Celebrate. Step up to the next stage of his young life. "I was excited -- ready to start things new and move onto college and experience life and then all this happened," said Lauridsen, 18, one day after one of the deadliest American twisters on record ripped through his hometown of Joplin, Missouri. And now? "Now I'm just worried about helping out with the community and getting things back together," he said.
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A Facebook page is set up to help locate missing graduate Will Norton
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He was one of about 450 seniors to graduate from Joplin High School Sunday
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The high school principal says the school looks like "it's been bombed from the outside in"
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Joplin's public school district has canceled classes for the rest of the year
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