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Where have I done been for the past couple weeks? I have no excuses, except to say I've been inundated (in a wonderful way) with out-of-town visitors overlapping one another, along with rising excitement and trepidation at returning to school this week after a fabulously full and relaxing summer.
As I gear up for the return to studenthood, I will turn over today's post to the superbly articulate Barack Obama on this sad anniversary:
"This week marks the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the greatest natural disasters to ever strike our shores. The images of Katrina are still seared in our minds one year later: mothers holding their babies above water, seniors slumped in wheelchairs, and bodies floating down American streets. We vowed then, and still vow today, that we'll never forget.
One of greatest tragedies of Katrina is that our government failed us. The people who are supposed to be there for us when the chips are down failed and forgot the hundreds of thousands of people who needed them the most—and left them to fend for themselves.
Out of all the sadness and despair, we were reminded of one immutable fact: America is great because Americans are good at heart."
(Well... most of them, at least.)
Posted by ayelet at August 28, 2006 02:32 PM