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 Eyes on Katrina
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Thoughts from Paris
Yes, that Paris. A local gone Continental named Gerald Holt:
I was born at Gulfport Memorial, grew up in Long Beach, where I went to Jeff Davis Elementary and Long Beach High School. My grandparents are buried in Biloxi. I have been living in Paris, France for many years now, but when something like this happens, it brings everything back -- crabbing all summer on the 'rockpile' in Long Beach (the marina was still years away), the fishing rodeo in July, picking blackberries in the bushes along the Old Pass Road -- and always taking a stick in case there were snakes.
I have been watching every scrap of news I can get over the internet, as well as CNN and BBC World on cable, and of course the local French news reports which are shocked and aghast at all that has happened. To see citizens of 'the most powerful country in the world' on their knees, people crying and begging just like all of the news reports they have seen in the past of disasters in Indonesia or Bangladesh or Somalia, not to mention Iraq, is beyond belief. The scenes of looting and violence defy description. The US has helped so many other places over the years, and in Europe, they find it terrible to see the US in need and help not arriving fast enough.
I really hope that the US will not be too proud to accept the offers of help that European and other countries have given. There is no shame in taking a helping had that is held out to you, and the French will never forget the help they received when they needed it.
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