I received an e-mail accompanied by a few dozen photos of the Mississippi area. The images and the short tale related come first hand from a guy - I'd say he's a buddy, but he's actually the publisher of some magazines for which I work - who put his money where his mouth is. He spent the Thanksgiving holiday in the MS area with some other like minded individuals, helping out doing whatever he could do. No noise, no fan fare, just helping out where he could.
Not wanting to embarass him, I told him that what he'd done waas pretty stand up and asked why he thought the area was still a mess.
"It's destroyed and fixing it is like eating an elephant one bite at a time," was pretty much his answer. He added that essentially - regadrless of color, creed, economic level, etc - the place has been flattened and in desparate need of assistance at every level.
I've been pretty skeptical about this hurricane stuff, but it looks like I've been more wrong than right.
Regardless, all I was doing was what I criticize the media for ... shooting off my mouth ...unlike those who actually do something.
Kudos to him, his crew and the people like them.
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