Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 8 Sep 2005, at 13:28, Don Dory wrote: > Besides, the real story is out in New Orleans itself, in and around > Biloxi, Gulfport, and all the little communities on the coast. Access > there to accredited media is not bad and the real story is the people > that are going in saving, restoring, choosing what stays and what > goes. We don't really need to see ten thousand cots lined up with sad > looking people sitting on them. We do need to see people getting on > with their lives and coping with their loss. The shelters are not the real story? I'll say they are! Any event of this enormity is multi-faceted. The story is everywhere, in the faces of those pulling bodies out of houses, of survivors who got out (like Charmaine Neville, what a story that is), of people trying to rebuilt, of gangsters, you name it, but certainly in the faces of those sitting on a camp bed wearing everything they have in the world and not knowing what happens tomorrow. > > Now, back to the SuperDome. I don't believe in that chaos that > anybody kept anybody from going inside during the first 48 hours. So, > where was the press when the people needed help the most? And that is a very good point! P. ******* Paul Hardy Carter www.paulhardycarter.com *******