getting help from volunteers offering food, sweat and comfort. brown tells me he's learned something and wants to tell the people of joplin don't turn down help and don't give up. >> if you can't go anywhere, you can always go home. >> reporter: would it have been easier for you just to pack it in and say, i'm not going back and start over somewhere? >> yeah, it would have been a whole lot easier. it definitely would have been a whole lot easier, but i won't let this get me down. >> reporter: a full month after a deadly tornado and so many still so slow to turn the corner from surviving to recovery. david matingly, tuscaloosa, alabama. >> we are bringing you the stories beyond the destruction later this evening. a special cnn presents "a twister's fury in the past of destruction." just moments from now we'll observe the moment of silence about to take place in joplin, missouri, as you are looking live at the people gathering. we'll be right back.