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DEATH OF A CITY 
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It's a funny thing how life can be such a drag one minute and a solid sender the next. The day I got out of jail Mardi Gras was being celebrated. It is a great day for all of New Orleans, and particularly for the Zulu Aid Pleasure and Social Club. . . When I ran into this celebration and the good music I forgot all about Sore Dick [the prison yard captain] and the Parish Prison - Louis Armstrong
When a great city dies ~ the shock is almost incomprehensible .
Especially a city so associated with crowds of revelers, laughter, good food and great jazz.
Now it's streets are deserted as thousands evacuate its toxic waters which have smothered the city from breeched levees and left it gasping for breath.
Levees which could have been bolstered and reinforced except the Cheney/ Bush administration slashed the funding for the Corps of Engineers' projects to strengthen and raise the New Orleans levees and, instead, diverted the money to their illegal war and occupation of Iraq.
When I think of New Orleans ~
I think of Louis Armstrong, I think of Mardi Gras and I think of an exciting city living on the edge of disaster.
Well, the disaster has happened and we all watched in horror as a great city drowned under a 25 foot storm surge of water.
But, like San Francisco in 1906, New Orleans will eventually rise from this tragedy for the spirit of Mardi Gras and Louis Armstrong is a solid sender that will transcend this tragedy and live forever.
Allen L Roland
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