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Others seethed as they watched the criminal mayhem in New Orleans, "where some American citizens with their looting and shootings were acting like the wicked insurgents that we had to deal with over here," Wagenmaker wrote.
He has listened as soldiers told him about what they lost, their families being uprooted and their worries about returning home. He helped them reconnect with loved ones, and prayed with them when they wondered where God was in Katrina's fury.
"I point them to the cross," Wagenmaker wrote. "That is God's response to Katrina. That is where God walked with us in our misery, took part in our tragedies."