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Mail Call: In Katrina's Wake...(Letter to the Editor)

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Our Sept. 12 report on Hurricane Katrina led many readers to fault the government's ineptitude. Wrote one, "Bush was missing in action." Asked another, "Why do Americans resort to violence after a disaster?"

The Tragedy of Katrina

As a survivor of the Holocaust, I lost the life I led more than 60 years ago, when the world didn't give a damn or, like today, acknowledge that a storm of destruction was imminent ("The Lost City," Sept. 12). Sitting in my comfortable, dry home watching the horror of New Orleans made me cry the tears I didn't have when I was a child losing everything, fleeing with just the clothing I wore that day. More than 60 years ago, I ...

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