This is some bitter truth..

[shadowmayor]

36. I helped clean up in New Orleans

Got back from Iraq in December 2005. One of our sister units was from New Orleans (Army Guard) and they got sent home early to deal with Katrina. Volunteered for clean up in New Orleans in March 2006 - six months after the flood. Bodies were still being recovered in a few places.

Met in the morning at the Walmart Parking Lot on Tchoupitoulas Street in the Crescent. The manager of the Walmart told us how after the waters rose, he put out the word that all his inventory was a write-off and that folks should come get all the supplies they could carry. Even policemen showed up to get water, diapers etc. The cameras filmed these people "looting" a Walmart with lots of tsks tsks from the average American watching the boob tube. Incredible.

One hero was General Honore who's troops made it through the high water. When he saw the situation he barked, put your weapons away and get these people some water. There was no chaos, or pillaging, just suffering people.

A whole lot of "real" fake news came out of the Katrina disaster.