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Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer. First line of text: \"What I have seen here has blown my mind...\" Talks about compassion, the need to question what is going on in the world.

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Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer Antonio K. Gonzalez drawn just before the Katrina one-year anniversary. Text describes his shock at lack of progress in rebuilding (no traffic lights, etc) and his respect and…

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Charcoal portrait of Alvin Marigny. Text says: \r\n\"I am in a lot of pain. Seem like I don\'t have nothing to gain. Thing I have to say nobody give a dam anyway but what can I really do to make a change when everything…

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Charcoal portrait of A. (Audrianne?) James of Forstall Street in the Lower Ninth Ward. James describes her reaction to Hurricane Katrina. Quote from narrative: \"Katrina you was a beast. I am taking back my hood.....\"

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Hurrican Wilma hit us on Monday Oct 24. It raged on for only 6 hours.It seemed like an eternity. My entire life changed in those 6 hours. We lost power early and the only thing I had was a small battery operated radio,…

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Iam living here in monroe la in fema tariler\'s on hwy 80 eastt 69 mile\'s form vickberg missippi that\'s were they put me and my family.witch me my daugther and five of her children we are living in this place call the…

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\"Riding the Nightmare Express\" is a 23-page typescript of an unpublished memoir of Hurricane Betsy written by Ninth Ward residents Elizabeth Cousins Rogers (1891-1985) and her husband Walter Rogers (1900-1981). Walter…

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Hurricane Katrina will be an event that I will never forget in my lifetime. The images have left an indelible mark in my head. I can\'t even fathom the amount of pain that the residents of New Orleans have had to endure.…

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My home is in a coastal area, much like many of these homes were. I live in Virginia Beach, and it\'s less than a 10 minute drive to the Oceanfront from my home. When Hurricane Katrina and Rita hit, I found myself…

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I can\'t go back home and i miss home so much. I live in Texas now and I hate so bad because people down here think that we are bad people just because we are from New Orleans.

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