Never Forget: Katrina Missing still in the thousands and growing

[HamdenRice]

It is so sad that the rest of the country, led by the amnesiac mainstream media, has essentially moved on from the reality of Katrina. Now it is a political story, about how the Bush administration "fumbled" the government's response and "perception" that Bush mishandled Katrina is "hurting his poll numbers."

In the meantime, nearly two thousand people remain missing and that number is growing as families reunite and discover that members of unaccounted for.

As the state medical examiner of LA put it:

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1668003&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

The state medical examiner, Dr. Louis Catilde, admits that some of those still lost will never be reunited with their families.

"Are there people in the marshes? Quite probably," said Catilde. "Are there people who washed into the Gulf? Very probably. Will they ultimately be found? I don't know the answer to that. Possibly never."

[dddem]

1. I've never felt so ashamed to be an American

as when I saw the other day that FINALLY, 6 month later, they start demolishing homes, and are finding bodies of the missing. WHY did it take 6 MONTHS to start this work? I couldn't believe I was watching something that was going on in the United States of America.

[HamdenRice]

2. In every war, in every disaster, it's been our tradition to

retrieve and identify all the dead as soon as possible. I absolutely don't understand this. If you ever needed proof we've become a third world country it is that the Katrina dead are still rotting in New Orleans.