Post by troutfarm on Sept 5, 2005 22:16:10 GMT -5
My friend emailed me the link to this story. I won't even post the other link she sent me about someone being shot by the National Guard in the streets when they were trying to help a woman who was getting raped ~ it is all too sad.
My hat is off to Sean Penn and other men going into the flood area with boats trying hard to save more people.
trout
cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050905%2F0430657042.htm&sc=1110&photoid=20050904LADP133&ewp=ewp_news_0805katrina_disaster&floc=NW_1-T
New Orleans Begins Counting Its Dead
By ROBERT TANNER
Below part of his article
In addition to the lawlessness, civilian deaths and uncertainty about their families, New Orleans' police have had to deal with suicides in their ranks. Two officers took their lives, including the department spokesman, Paul Accardo, who died Saturday, according to Riley. Both shot themselves in the head, he said.
``I've got some firefighters and police officers that have been pretty much traumatized,'' Mayor Ray Nagin said. ``And we've already had a couple of suicides, so I am cycling them out as we speak. ... They need physical and psychological evaluations.''
The strain was apparent in other ways. Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, dropped his head and cried on NBC's ``Meet the Press.''
``The guy who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home, and every day she called him and said, `Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?' And he said, `And yeah, Momma, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday' - and she drowned Friday night. She drowned on Friday night,'' Broussard said.
``Nobody's coming to get her, nobody's coming to get her. The secretary's promise, everybody's promise. They've had press conferences - I'm sick of the press conferences. For God's sakes, shut up and send us somebody.''