"Trash and shoes, personal possessions washing up on shore in

[wanpete]

Galveston from Louisiana from Katrina" according to Anderson Cooper. How sad and ironic is this??? It's like the sea offering up the dead. This is so sad...:cry:

With the * cover up of all of the Katrina deaths, this may be the only memorial for many people who lost their lives.

[Ilsa]

1. Happened in 1900. They took the dead (about 8,000) out on a barge

and dumped them at sea. A week later they washed up on shore. So the wonderful :sarcasm: people of Galveston drafted African Americans to pick up the bodies and burn them outside of town. It is said they gave them lots of booze. I don't know if they were paid. They said the funeral pyres burned for weeks.

[NYC]

2. I hadn't known that.

Thanks for the information.