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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 01:17 AM
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La. guardsmen returning from Kuwait
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/world/12582590.htm

CAMP VICTORY, Kuwait - Hundreds of soldiers from a New Orleans National Guard unit begin leaving Thursday to return to the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina. Guard officials said 80 percent lost homes or jobs and some had not heard from relatives since the storm.

A Pentagon team led by Brig. Gen. Sean Byrne flew into this U.S. base in the Kuwaiti desert to help ease the Louisiana's unit redeployment home.

Speaking Wednesday to 150 soldiers sitting on plywood benches in a tent billowing in the wind, Byrne told them that if their homes are gone and their families scattered and homeless, the Army will help.

"The focus isn't necessarily on the Army right now. The focus is on you and your family," said Byrne, director of military personnel management.

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merwin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 01:20 AM
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1. Uh, 100% of them lost jobs
Considering New Orleans is under martial law and completely evacuated for the next several years.
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DELUSIONAL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 01:24 AM
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2. This should have been the IMMEDIATE REACTION
We are over a WEEK past the landfall of Katrina.

I am so sick of the half humans who are in control of this country.
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Conservativesux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 01:28 AM
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3. Half-Humans? Hell, I thought they were body-snacthing aliens!
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