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<blockquote data-quote="Bravo 4" data-source="post: 225565" data-attributes="member: 8873"><p>bwaites wrote- "...it was THEIR decision to live there, understanding the risks..."</p><p>That is true. Just like me living in Arkansas, if my house gets destroyed by a tornado it is gonna suck but that is part of the danger of living here. You have something to contend with just about everywhere. Tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, forest fires, ridiculously cold winters...but New Orleans, that's like living in a big creek bed under a beaver ****. It's not IF but WHEN.</p><p>'06- I agree with your whole post. That's pretty much common sense to me.</p><p> </p><p>I was one of the first "War Hardened Arkansas National Guard Soldiers" (that is funny)to set foot in N.O. and it was the most destruction you could ever imagine. Worse then anything I ever seen in Iraq. But I don't think the Iraqis, as selfish a people as they are, would have responded the way these low lifes did. I HATE thugs and I HATE gangs...and don't think too highly of people who spend their lives with a hand out (welfare)...it put most of us in shock for a day or two. We weren't sent down there to render AID, we were sent to restore order. And that is what we did. I didn't like the idea of using force against my own people but after seeing the way they were acting, I would have been glad to put a lot of then down...for good! After things settle down and the AID stations were set up, the RED CROSS sight leader told me that they estimate that up to 80% of the people in the lines didn't need to be there and were just looking for another hand out. But the people who need your help make everything else seem petty, like one woman we rescued had to swim from her flooded home to a large oak tree in the yard with her two year old son on her back and he was swept away by the water. Then she had to sit in that tree for three days with the rats and roaches with no food or water. The destruction was horrible, but those are the things I think about...if I really helped one person, it was worth the Army screwing up and not paying me for two months. Even that seemed petty at the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bravo 4, post: 225565, member: 8873"] bwaites wrote- "...it was THEIR decision to live there, understanding the risks..." That is true. Just like me living in Arkansas, if my house gets destroyed by a tornado it is gonna suck but that is part of the danger of living here. You have something to contend with just about everywhere. Tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, forest fires, ridiculously cold winters...but New Orleans, that's like living in a big creek bed under a beaver ****. It's not IF but WHEN. '06- I agree with your whole post. That's pretty much common sense to me. I was one of the first "War Hardened Arkansas National Guard Soldiers" (that is funny)to set foot in N.O. and it was the most destruction you could ever imagine. Worse then anything I ever seen in Iraq. But I don't think the Iraqis, as selfish a people as they are, would have responded the way these low lifes did. I HATE thugs and I HATE gangs...and don't think too highly of people who spend their lives with a hand out (welfare)...it put most of us in shock for a day or two. We weren't sent down there to render AID, we were sent to restore order. And that is what we did. I didn't like the idea of using force against my own people but after seeing the way they were acting, I would have been glad to put a lot of then down...for good! After things settle down and the AID stations were set up, the RED CROSS sight leader told me that they estimate that up to 80% of the people in the lines didn't need to be there and were just looking for another hand out. But the people who need your help make everything else seem petty, like one woman we rescued had to swim from her flooded home to a large oak tree in the yard with her two year old son on her back and he was swept away by the water. Then she had to sit in that tree for three days with the rats and roaches with no food or water. The destruction was horrible, but those are the things I think about...if I really helped one person, it was worth the Army screwing up and not paying me for two months. Even that seemed petty at the time. [/QUOTE]
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