Never Forget

As the anniversary of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina along the gulf coast nears, I started to remember about some of the peaople that I met and the stories they told, when I was down there volunteering with the Crisis Corps shortly after the two hurricanes. To hear the stories and read the news about the progress down there, especially in New Orleans is sad. There seems to be little progress, though there has been some, but not enough. It's been a year and much of the population still remains elsewhere or homeless. It saddens me to see that something like this could happen in the United States. Not the hurricane, cause there's nothing we can do to stop them, but I'm sad at the the aftermath and the loss of life. The disorganization of our government at every level. They all blame each other for the problems of New Orleans and the rest of the gulf, when everybody involved should be blamed for different reasons.

It angers me when we say we are the leaders of the world and other countries want to be like the United States or people want to come here to live, but we can't take care of our own citizens in a time of crisis and cannot fix our own problems. We send our troops and money to other countries to help fix their problems and keep the peace, but can't do the same here. Now, I'm not saying that we shouldn't help other countries, cause we should if they want it, but we need to do the same on our own land also.

Sorry about the rant, but sometimes we all gotta. Hope all is well with everyone and peace.