In response to Jindal's address last night, I was in NOLA. The people of NOLA are friends of mine, along with many others I met down there. Unlike Jindal, I didn't do a fly over. My plane actually landed on the ground in Baton Rouge, and I was all over, helping people wherever I could.
For some background, I watched in horror, the tsunami in 2004 and yearned to go and help the people affected. But I was working and didn't have the time off to go. I swore to myself that nothing would prevent me from helping in the next disaster and when I watched the news in August 2005 and saw masses of people dying, suffering, drowning, and waiting to be rescued from their rooftops I was again horrified. This time not only for what I was seeing, but that something like this could happen in the United States.
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