Our second day of tour was very similar to the first with words like incredible, unbelievable and inconceivable dominating all of our talks. My morning began by reading the Gulfport paper and this little snippet that I found there stuck with me all day. “Poor child”One little boy in D’Iberville School was asked what he [...]
Day 2: Mississippi – Notes from Greg
November 1st, 2005 · No Comments
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Getting the Real Picture
November 1st, 2005 · No Comments
As we drove through devastated areas and walked among the rubble of what had been homes and neighborhoods, we were reminded of the significant difference between seeing pictures and news footage of a disaster and the experience of actually being at the scene. Joyce commented on the stairs that went to nowhere. Some of the [...]