[Shotimes] RE: (OT) Insight on Katrina's path

[Hartberger, Jason M. AT2 (AW)]

Kind of makes me wonder why precisely it is that we're going over to the gulf when our own people need us so much more... our boat produces 550,000 gallons of pure fresh water every 24 hours, has enough food and medical supplies to take care of a LOT of people, and I know with dead certainty that every man and woman on this boat, all 6000, would gladly work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help as many as possible. We have a squadron of helicopters for rescue missions and supply delivery, we have 4 cargo delivery aircraft that can pack a lot of supplies in them and land... pretty much wherever. I know I'd give up everything I had - my rack, my sleeping bag, my blanket, my tempur-pedic pillow, all my food, my books, my clothes.... This may be a warship but in the end we're about saving lives, not ending them. I don't really put much faith in Christianity; I suppose you could call me agnostic (not atheist!) but I know I pray on a daily basis for the millions and millions of people that have lost everything they hold dear, everything they worked so hard to achieve, lost those they love forever.... it's just a bum deal for everybody. It's a shame nature does the things she does. Wish I that we could control it like almost everything else! *sigh*

    V/R

    AT2(AW) Jason Hartberger
    USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71
    AIMD/IM-3/SHOP 8
    CASS Tech/2M Tech/Gofer Extraordinaire/
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul L Fisher [mailto:sho@paul-fisher.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 4:44 AM
To: TechSHO@topica.com; 'Shotimes'; 'V8List SHO'
Subject: RE: (OT) Insight on Katrina's path

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On the news last night they said the area of destruction was bigger than
England (or Great Britain, can't remember which).


Paul L Fisher

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