02 Sep 2005
An AP Essay: Is This Happening in America?

As I've watched the drama unfold in New Orleans and ripple across the entire fabric of American society over the last five days, I've just been filled with a deep sadness and a searing sense of foreboding. So when I happened across this essay in written form (I heard bits of it on NPR today) I decided to offer it here, in the hope that understanding the full extent of this tragedy might yield some healing. Or at least serve to dull our disbelief.

Much harder to measure is the cost of all those searing images burned into the national conscience, and what they've done to the sense of security that was our last refuge when disasters wreaked havoc, and then, unnecessary suffering, in distant lands — the certainty that it couldn't happen here.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

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