Parker Jazz Club
New Orleans Relief Underfunded
RECEIVED Mon., Jan. 9, 2006
Dear Editor,
I spent the first 29 years of my life in New Orleans and moved here later for career reasons. In mid-October, I revisited my beloved hometown to inspect Hurricane Katrina's damages.
It was amazing and sad to see that the levees had fallen apart, that my elementary school was ruined from the floods, and that signs of death (human and animal) plus property damage were everywhere.
Congress is underfunding the reconstruction of New Orleans' levee system. Why not build stronger and better levees? If you construct them on the cheap, we'll all live to regret it. This is the time for Congress, through the Army Corps of Engineers, to do it right.
As a national defense issue, proper levee construction does involve weapons of mass destruction. A hurricane is indeed a WMD.
I spent the first 29 years of my life in New Orleans and moved here later for career reasons. In mid-October, I revisited my beloved hometown to inspect Hurricane Katrina's damages.
It was amazing and sad to see that the levees had fallen apart, that my elementary school was ruined from the floods, and that signs of death (human and animal) plus property damage were everywhere.
Congress is underfunding the reconstruction of New Orleans' levee system. Why not build stronger and better levees? If you construct them on the cheap, we'll all live to regret it. This is the time for Congress, through the Army Corps of Engineers, to do it right.
As a national defense issue, proper levee construction does involve weapons of mass destruction. A hurricane is indeed a WMD.
With sincerity and frankness,
Gary Shelton Daniel
Gary Shelton Daniel
