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I have no link, I got this via email. I'm not sure how much I can post (I know the 4p rule), so here's snippets (it's formatted poorly, so I have no idea if I'm posting more than four paragraphs.)
By ALLEN G. BREED
Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Above the din, a woman is
screaming the
Lord's Prayer as if heaven can no longer hear silent
pleas.
"And lead us not into temptation," she bellows
hoarsely to the
unhearing throng, "but deliver us from evil ..."
But temptation is everywhere in this crippled city.
And so, it
seems, is evil.
-snip-
Katrina's winds have left behind an information
vacuum. And that
vacuum has been filled by rumor. There is nothing to
correct wild
reports that armed gangs have taken over the
convention center.
That two babies had their throats slit in the night.
That a
7-year-old girl was raped and killed at the Superdome.
One officer calls these human cattle yards "lawless
countries
unto themselves."
-snip-
Katrina has not just robbed people of their homes. It
has taken
their dignity.
On a sidewalk crowded with children and the elderly,
a woman
pulls down her pants and squats behind a potted plant.
A passing
man averts his eyes.
"Thank you," she says. "I'm just doing what I've got
to do."
-snip-
Thursday night, a prayer session begins at one end of
Convention
Center Boulevard and spreads to the other. Please,
they implore,
let there be no more rioting.
The next morning, someone - Robinson does not know
who - appears
with fresh, cold milk. And instead of fighting over
it, able-bodied
adults step back and allow the children and the
elderly to be
nourished first.
Across the city, people have banded together,
creating pockets
of civility amid the chaos.
-Matt
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