[StBernard] thoughts about St. Bernard Parish

[Westley Annis]

Jer, I admire your eloquence and agree; send your prolific writing for
publication; I have tried many times, but like any other writer, you have to
keep trying. This situation calls for the squeakiest wheel getting the
grease. We hear you bro! Keep it up! As Nelsen Algren said, "Go through life
kicking and screaming". Mudpie 



	----- Original Message -----
	
	"..I wish we could get someone to play footage of the water...and
the boat 
	rescues...and footage of St. Bernard Parish looking as if a bomb has
gone 
	off in every neighborhood....footage of lines of people trying to
get 
	trailers, food, and supplies...people...still...fighting for
insurance 
	money...Money that is rightfully ours but we will probably have to
go to 
	court just to settle our policies.....would they get it then...again
the 
	invitation stands...come and see for themselves....then 
	maybe they will get it! JUST ABOUT 5months...67,000
residents....only 500 
	trailers in our town of ST. BERNARD..concerned citizen" 
	
	**Concerned, like yourself, I can't imagine a slower death coming
from a 
	fatalistic disease. It's the equivilency of slow-growthed cancer,
eating 
	from the inside where there's nothing one can do to stop the
ailment. The 
	emotions contribute to the misery in such a way that if hope springs
out 
	somehow, will become the miracle we all need to get by. Things do
not seem 
	to be moving quickly enough to avoid the depressed state so many are

	experiencing and one-step-at-a-time procedures only tend to make
matters 
	worse as our eyes will tear and our hearts will break at each waking
day. 
	
	When a made-4-TV movie or Hollywood epic appears called "Katrina-The

	Hurricane Like No Other" (or a facimile there of), I wonder how it
will be 
	told? Will they beef it up with people tearing each other up in long
lines 
	for food, trailers, etc.? Will local politicians themselves be
target for 
	ridicule before millions as culprits and bumpling idiots on
roof-tops wet 
	and rescued by helicopters? 
	
	How will our parish's story be told? (or well they once again, show
the army 
	only recovering the Superdome/Convention Center Crowd to promote
Hollywood's 
	favorite agenda. One-sided to ethnocentricity of its own choosing? 
	
	
	Jer.