On "Buddies" and "The American People"
Montgomery, AL - Saturday October 1st:
Like the Police, the Red Cross uses the "partner" or "buddy" system for it's ERVs. The buddy system ensures that there are two people at all times working together and supporting each other.
Denny Armentrout from Webster City, Iowa is my buddy, and it is amazing how in such a short time bonds can be created that I am sure will stand the passage of time.
Katrina and the Red Cross brought us to Montgomery, and chance threw us together as "buddies".
I have yet to meet a more generous, gregarious, funny, deadly serious, action orientated, talkative, loyal and dependable human being. I was fortunate to have had him as my partner, and I think we made quite a team.
I have to speak too, of all the Red Cross Volunteers, volunteers with other groups, the staff of FEMA, the contractors, the "Line Men" (bringing power back to the Gulf) and of course the Police, the Firemen, Ambulance men and First Responders that we met - everyone has the "Mission" to help these Gulf States back on their feet.
Regarding the public outcry surrounding the Katrina disaster, I believe it was Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu who said:
Like the Police, the Red Cross uses the "partner" or "buddy" system for it's ERVs. The buddy system ensures that there are two people at all times working together and supporting each other.
Denny Armentrout from Webster City, Iowa is my buddy, and it is amazing how in such a short time bonds can be created that I am sure will stand the passage of time.
Katrina and the Red Cross brought us to Montgomery, and chance threw us together as "buddies".
I have yet to meet a more generous, gregarious, funny, deadly serious, action orientated, talkative, loyal and dependable human being. I was fortunate to have had him as my partner, and I think we made quite a team.
I have to speak too, of all the Red Cross Volunteers, volunteers with other groups, the staff of FEMA, the contractors, the "Line Men" (bringing power back to the Gulf) and of course the Police, the Firemen, Ambulance men and First Responders that we met - everyone has the "Mission" to help these Gulf States back on their feet.
Regarding the public outcry surrounding the Katrina disaster, I believe it was Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu who said:
"America has looked in the mirror
and has not liked what it has seen"
I think that the outpouring of volunteering is America's, and by this I mean "the people of America's" response.
"We the people" are doing something about it!
Todate the Red Cross has deployed some 160,000+ volunteers into this Katrina/Rita crisis. If you were to add together all the volunteers, The Red Cross, The Salvation Army, all the various church groups, State, Local Government, Municipal, School, Corporate and all other volunteer organizations the total number of volunteers must be in the millions.
Yes America has been embarrassed by the first 4 or 5 days after Katrina, but America can be proud of what it's citizens have done since.
And let us hope that the government can learn from this experience to ensure that never again will disaster victims go without help for so long.
Proud to have been a part of it.
Peter
posted by Peter at 1:34 PM
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