True heroes.

[katster]

Whoa.

Okay, I'm in the middle of reading The Great Deluge, a book by David Brinkley. (Yeah, I'm writing too, but I'm at 10k, I can take some time off to read.) It covers the period from August 27 to September 2, 2005 in and around Louisiana and Mississippi. In case there are any of you blinking at those dates, I'm taking about the immediate days

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Heros

[dwhagar]

I think it comes down to a piece that someone Jen knows is doing, I can't even remember what kind of piece its called. However, it is about what a hero is, and while I don't agree on any level with the part of it that goes on about how bad war is and how war is male dick-waving and penis envy. I think that's crap. However, there is another part of it, written (I think) by a worker at the 9-11 aftermath, someone in the wreckage looking for survivors. It talks about how they looked up and saw people going to work the next day

[tanesmuti]

The CG also works with old, leftover equipment from the Navy. They get the militaries hand-me-downs.

[seraphmoon]

I've only just started reading Deluge; like, I'm five pages in. My mother really loved it though, because she felt Brinkley was very objective and didn't try to undeservedly vilify or praise any of the parties involved. If they failed, he said it. If they pulled through, he said that too.