Who can EVER forget?  Take a moment of silence.  Light a candle.  Say a prayer.  Do not forget what the cities in the Gulf region went through in late August 2005.

Where were you?  What did you do?  What have you done?  How were you affected?

This is an excellent video that’s about 27 minutes of runtime narrated by Brian Williams from NBC Nightly News.

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Video- NBC Nightly News: What does race have to do with it?

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People died!!!  What are we going to do to make sure history never ever repeats itself?

Check out one of my favorite sites and early supporters, New Orleans Ladder (http://noladder.blogspot.com/)

Ok, here me out because my blog post title could throw you off.  I found this article on the International Herald Tribune and it’s called Hurricane Recovery Confronts Low Literacy Rate.

Here’s an excerpt…

Three years after Hurricane Katrina, residents of New Orleans are still buried in a blizzard of government paperwork. But for thousands of storm victims seeking federal aid, the challenge is made more difficult by a little-known obstacle: More than 40 percent of the city’s adults lack the literacy skills to comprehend basic government forms. And recovery programs have done little to ease the burden.

This is an aspect that never even occurred to me, but is a really issue.  I mean I could totally get lost and frustrated in a sea of paperwork that has been the government’s bureaucratic claim to fame.