For the last eight days I've been involved in mobile intensive
care transports of critical patients from Southern Mississippi and
Southeastern Louisiana. I was on four ground transports and four air
transports.

For those who have been watching the news on CNN and Fox News, all
I can say is that the most horrific and heartbreaking scenes have yet
to be aired, and in all likelyhood never will be...I just don't think
the American public could withstand it.

As an ER Nurse I've seen tragedy and dispair on an almost daily
basis, but at the end of the day, it's been easy to put behind me as
soon as I get out of the parking lot. I can get a sausage and bisquit
at the corner store, enjoy a pint of milk, and know that when I get
home the lights are on and the fridge is full.

Not so in LA or MS.

I was on the ground in Slidell, LA, for 45 minutes on Saturday. I
don't believe that even if I possessed the skills of a poet laureat
that I could put into words the devastation. I never served with the
Marines in Viet Nam, but have always heard about the "1000 yeard
stare"...Well, now I've seen it...In the eyes of hundreds of those
brutalized by this horrific event.

That having been said, those who have been casting about that I am
"MIA" or otherwise "strangely absent" from the NG only reinforce, in my
mind anyway, just how infantile, meaningless and puny they really are.
In light of the last few days, the punks who make up the Feeble Five
have just ceased to have any substance for me. They are just too
petty.

Steve, K4YZ