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

[Ian Fisher]

Jason
I feel much the same way (ie, why are we going to the
gulf when there's so much more work to be done here.
Sadly, I know the answer but I'm not going to spell it
out and turn it into a political debate in an
inappropriate forum).

I keep wishing that there was something that I could
do. If I didn't have anything to do for the next two
weeks, I'd seriously considering going in as a
volunteer with the Red Cross. I keep hearing reports
of what's happening at the Superdome and it makes me
sick to my stomach that we are allowing this to happen
in our own country...Apparently one of my aunts is
going to go down there from Maryland. Based on what
I've seen on TV, it will be a heart-wrenching
situation.

Good luck at sea. I'm not religious either but I
"pray" in my own way for everyone down there and what
they are suffering through.

Ian

--- "Hartberger, Jason M.  AT2 (AW)"
<hartbejm@cvn71.navy.mil> wrote:

> 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 pe!
>  ople 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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> 
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> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 4:44 AM
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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).
> 
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