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Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in 2005 in partnership with many national and Gulf Coast area organizations and individuals. HDMB was awarded the Award of Merit for Leadership in History, and is the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection. Read More.

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\r\n\"Hurrycane\" Katrina\r\nBeat the coast, \"the bowl\"\r\nAnd unseemly gave rise for more\r\nAnd the most catastrophic hot air\r\nGurgitating from liberals\' oral hole\r\n\r\nNaughty Katrina!\r\nUnited we…

Hurrycane Katrina

Katrina hit - what a disaster\r\nEveryone started running faster and faster\r\n\r\nThey ran like a lion\r\nAnd no their not lien\'\r\n\r\n\'Bout what they say\r\nBoy what a day\r\n

Katrina Hit

O the crescent flows muddy red\r\nA bend of arterial dimensions\r\n\r\nFull to rim and over-\r\nFilled with sins of fathers\r\n\r\nBlowing hard without charts now\r\nImprovised in the tradition\r\n\r\nOf nontradition.…

O The Crescent Flows…

(Written after hearing a reporter interview a 7-year-old girl whose family were victims of hurricane Katrina. I hope that this innocent child will not be scarred for life by the shameful events that took place during the…

Dead People In The…

I wonder where the love has gone\r\nAnd is there any left\r\nI wonder where the laughter went\r\nIt haunts my every breath\r\n\r\nI wonder where the children are\r\nTheir toys are strewn about\r\nI wonder where the…

Wondering

Sometimes the world we live in is uncertain\r\nIn a moment what\'s known can slip away\r\nAnd we feel as we walk among the ruin\r\nOur hopes dwindle as we greet the coming day\r\n\r\nFaces full of tears, such pain and…

A Baby\'s Cry Among…

Sometimes the world we live in is uncertain\r\nIn a moment what\'s known can slip away\r\nAnd we feel as we walk among the ruin\r\nOur hopes dwindle as we greet the coming day\r\n\r\nFaces full of tears, such pain and…

A Baby\'s Cry Among…

~ dirge villanelle in september\r\n\r\nThere was a rhyming city on a blue bayoo\r\n\'Til a wicked wind laid waste\r\nA nothing sound in a city\'s soul, and a nothing you can do\r\n\r\nThere was a windy will and a blue…

A Blue Wake For New…

September 2, 2005 - To Hurricane Katrina Survivors - After the Storm:\r\n\r\nIt is only after our basic physical needs are met, that the \'other\' survival begins. The following thoughts are for those whose who are out…

Essay: After the…

peOple cRying, peOple dyiNg\r\nblOod is shEdiNg wEn rAin wUz fAlliNg\r\nlOts of hOusEs, lOts of lOved onEs\r\nmOst of thEir cRisIs wUz endEd by wAter\r\n\r\nhAviNg nO brEath tO sAy agAin\r\nnOt mOving aN iNch of thEir…

peOple cRying,…

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