Hi Kathy, I think we all received the message from Bogdan. I am also in Canada and financially not in a position to offer any great help. I know that everything will work out for Sarah. With the many great people here at Adland taking her under their wing...nothing but good can come from it. My hat goes off to Marion! I think she deserves an award or member of the week. She is one of those people that reminds us of what the world should be like. Thanks Marion. Bless you and yours. In love and light, Doris

In the US the government is made up of the citizens of the United States. There were mandatory evacuation requirments and many people ignored them. New Orleans is a city that was built over water. The only thing the government could have done before hand was to force people out of there homes. If that had happened and the Hurricane had fizzled (like some do) there would have been a literal uprising. There are many people that could not get out or were left behind. This is the responsibility of the local government. This country is neither a dictatorship or monarchy, 1 person is not in control, nor 1 select group. We need to keep praying, sticking together and helping. We live in a small town in Georgia and we have 500 US refugees we were blessed to take care in to the Georgia Baptist Conference Center, and we are more than happy to do it. Each and every individual in this country chooses how to live there own life, and it is up to each of us to take the high road. The blaming won't fix or help anything. There was no "plot" to destroy anyone or leave anyone behind. There is no conspiracy. We live our lives and things happen. Those troops that deployed in less than 5 days had to say good bye to their families too, leave jobs, arrange for childcare and myriad other things. Thanks for letting me present the other side of the story - and to all the victims - we are here to help, all of us, because it could have been anyone of us. United we stand, divided we fall. Let's unite. God bless everyone and everything, people, plants, animals and the earth that we live together on.

Thnx Kathy for the info, I offer up hope and good luck from Japan.

As some of us already know and as other (open- minded) people will find out, most of the problem in New Orleans was not the US Government's fault. Rather, it was, and is, the state and the local government who was at fault. They put off asking for the Feds to help EVEN AFTER the Feds had REPEATLY asked them to ask for Federal help. They REFUSED to declare a manatory evacuation EVEN AFTER the National Weather Service had told them they NEEDED TO DO SO! They had OVER 500 buses at their disposal they did not use and now those buses are sitting in flooded areas. They could have used boats, barges and paddle wheelers to evacute people. They could have used trains and planes to evacuate people and they did not. If you saw pictures of the hyways being used to get people out, you would see they were NOT using ALL the lanes as the ones going into town SHOULD have been used to traffic going OUT of town. And forcing people out of the UN-damaged areas in New Orleans is another example of illogial thinking on the part of the local officals.

Tassmania 07/09/2005 17:42 Hi, I am proud of you at AdlandPro, and must agree with Mr.Neil R... all the trouble started with bad planning. It is so noble of you to try help. Warm regards you all Eva _______________________ http://worldwin-ecard.com