The exhibit is raw, emotional, ugly, beautiful.
It is almost impossible to look at some of the displays and not be
reduced to tears.
There are stories on unimaginable suffering.
There are times when one thinks if they were placed in the aftermath of
Katrina, unreached for 7 days and counting, would one pray for the roar of
helicopter blades and boat engines – or would one pray for going to sleep one time
and escaping the misery in the quietude of death?
Throughout the displays, the visitor has to remind himself that Katrina
took place in the 2ast century.
With the loss of safe water, food, communications, hospitals, first
responders, all basic needs – the aftermath looks like it took place a century
ago.
It is almost impossible to conceive that 21st century
America was so slow to help the people of New Orleans.
The sluggishness of supplies, manpower, communication lines was so
woeful that you’d think the rest of the nation surely was at war and unable to
rush help to historic New Orleans.
Looking at the multimedia displays, you feel the pain, the anguish, the
feeling of abandonment.
TOMORROW -- PART3
Hours: The Presbytere is open
Tuesdays through Sundays, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed Mondays and major
holidays.
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