Five years ago this morning, August 29, 2010, Hurricane Katrina hit just east of New Orleans. Five years later, we still don’t feel like we’re really part of the United States. We don’t seem to fit into the rest of the country. We feel taken for granted and then forgotten. Then we get remembered and [...]

Posted on August 29th, 2010 by Sherri
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Four years ago today, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf coast. By the end of the first week after the storm, at least a couple of thousand people lost their lives, 1400 in Louisiana alone. I thought these anniversaries would get easier, but overall, they haven’t. I used to be [...]

Posted on August 29th, 2009 by Sherri
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