[LittleOldLady]

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Hey Ed...

I was deployed with the Pennsylvania National Guard down to Louisiana after Katrina and through Rita.

We were based in Hammond and then did distribution points at Cavenaugh Park (I can't remember that name exactly), Franklinton, Bogalusa, Sulfur, and a few other places. It has been so long that I forget now. I never got to go into New Orleans.

First off, those lovebugs suck!!! How can you deal with those?

Secondly, I didn't know you lived down there.

Thirdly, I saw a lot of that destruction and I wish the best for you and your family.

Fourthly, I forget the rest of what I wanted to say.

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Cool.. thanks so much to you and everyone else who helped out the gulf coast.

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I would like to add my thanks as well. New Orleans still needs all the help it can get. My thanks go not only to the National Guard (who just returned to NO) and the Coast Guard, but also to the volunteers who are still coming down to help. My home was just cleaned out and gutted by good folks from the Jewish Federation and Operation Noah of the Southern Baptists.

Italian FX, where in Pennsylvania are you from? I grew up in Reading and went to university in Philadelphia. BTW Fabber Carson is from Allentown. Pennsylvanians in exile....