Remembering the victims of Hurricane Katrina - pics

[Kadie]

A flower is thrown into the 17th Street Canal to remember those that died in the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Monday, May 29, 2006. Over 1,000 flowers were thrown into the canal. The event was sponsored by Levees.org. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)


Reily Kelly-Brown,21 months, from New Orleans, waits with her flowers at the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans on Monday, May 29, 2006. Over 1,000 flowers were thrown into the canal to remember those that died in the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. The event was sponsored by Levees.org. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)


Over 1,000 flowers are thrown into the 17th Street Canal to remember those that died in the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Monday, May 29, 2006. The event was sponsored by Levees.org. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

[Olney Blue]

1. RIP, fellow Americans.

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[babylonsister]

2. Memorial Day IS for everyone; thanks for the reminder, Kadie. nt

[greenbriar]

3. kicked and recommended

best memorial day observance!

[Bluerthanblue]

4. victims of a different war-

no less noble- no less dead.

Where are the flags and parades for our fallen family here?


freed at last, from fear, want, hate, apathy, lies and deciet

May they rest in eternal peace and comfort-
blu

[MadMaddie]

5. Thank you....because the * cabal has forgotten about them...

We should never forget the drowning of the Gulf Coast and it's victims!!

[Dogmudgeon]

6. I love the flower girl ... ain't that a shame!

Over a thousand people died, and hundreds of thousands suffered everything from minor inconvenience to severe injury, nearly dying themselves. But the effect on American and World culture have only begun to ring. New Orleans is one of the cities that is America. New Orleans is a city that is important to music the same way that Jerusalem and Dharmasala are important to religion.

Antoine "Fats" Domino nearly died in that storm. He lived near one of the large levees that broke down during the storm surge. He lost everything, the memorabilia of a lifetime and a piece of the record of the history of music.

Barry Cowsill did die, and they didn't find his body for four months, rotting between some pier stumps.

Alex Chilton was trapped in his house for four days by a gang riot which included some police officers who had formed their own gang.

Thousands of other musicians survived. And a few didn't. It's not that they are more special than the other people who lived there; it's simply that from now on, music will include a blue note for those who suffered and lost through the worst most-unnecessary hurricane disaster in history.

If you are a musician or a music lover, you know that the fury of Katrina and the insouciance of George Bush will haunt New Orleans and the music for at least the next century.

--p!
Adieu, mes amis, adieu ...

[uppityperson]

7. Beautiful, RIP NOLA link here too

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Singing "We shall overcome," sorrowful residents, religious leaders and an old New Orleans brass band walked up a repaired levee and put their hands on a flood wall built to replace one which broke after Hurricane Katrina hit, blasting the Lower Ninth Ward with floodwaters nine months earlier.

It was one of two Memorial Day ceremonies Monday at canals at opposite ends of New Orleans where high water breached flood-protection barriers, inundating 80 percent of what had been Louisiana's largest city. The crowd of neatly 100 at the 17th Street Canal breach was mostly white middle-class residents. The lower Ninth Ward crowd of about 150 was mostly black, and few of them have the means to rebuild without help. At both, people sobbed intermittently, and spoke of closure and healing.
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Near the 17th Street breach, participants dropped 1,557 carnations of various colors — one for each Louisiana victim, whether the death was in the state or after evacuation — into the canal to honor the dead. People sang "God Bless America," then bagpipes played.

Scenes of devastation remain near both canal breaches, where most homes are abandoned. In the lower Ninth Ward, overgrown weeds do little to obscure contorted tangles of wood that used to be homes or rusting cars that had been deposited by floodwaters, some upside down, against piles of debris where houses once stood.....(more@link)

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-25/1148925562214530.xml&storylist=louisiana

[heartofthesiskiyou]

8. Just wanted to reiterate

that katrina was not the much daunted "big one" that has been forecast for over twenty years for NOLA. Katrina was only a cat 3. The failure was the levee failures that caused 80% of this damage. Katrina was a failure of federal government and was routed in the repukes over and over refusal to fix the levies that ALL the experts where virtually begging for funds to do it. John Zerrela, considered the resident expert on hurricane coverage with 20 years experience as the "go to guy" at CNN, put this in perspective pretty clearly yesterday.

Under the illusion of saving government money propaganda, was actually a tactic to hold as much tax money back so they could give as much of the money they could to the corporations and the very rich.

[Kadie]

9. More Pics >>>>>>

Ninth Ward residents place their hands on a new levee wall as they say a prayer in memory of those who have lost their lives during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 29, 2006. Many lost their lives due to severe levee failures throughout the metro area. REUTERS/Sean Gardner



Pastor Marie Galatas (C) holds the hand of a Ninth Ward resident as she and others place their hands on the new levee wall during a memorial service, to honor those have who have lost their lives during Hurricane Katrina, in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana May 29, 2006. Many lost their lives due to flooding caused by sever levee failures thought the metro area. REUTERS/Sean Gardner


Members of the Treme Brass Band along with residents march down a street in the Ninth Ward during a memorial service to honor those who lost their lives from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 29, 2006. REUTERS/Sean Gardner


Woody Penouilh Jr. of the Treme Brass Band walks past the repaired Industrial Canal levee after participating in a 'remembrance walk' through the Ninth Ward in memory of those who lost their lives during Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 29, 2006. Many lost their lives due to severe levee failures throughout the metro area. REUTERS/Sean Gardner


Nikkisha Napoleon holds up a sign in memory of her late Uncle James who died during Hurricane Katrina, as Ninth Ward residents participate in a 'remembrance walk' to remember those who lost their lives during the hurricane, in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 29, 2006. REUTERS/Sean


A teddy bear sits on the back of an abandoned car as residents march through the Ninth Ward neighborhood during a memorial service to honor those have who have lost their lives during Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 29, 2006. Many lost their lives due to flooding caused by severe levee failures throughout the metro area. REUTERS/Sean Gardner

[Kadie]

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