Some images leave a scar: Hiroshima, the World Trade Center and now. New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina vanquished more than a century of civilization in a matter of hours. The painfully sobering news videos of the ravaged city left 80 percent underwater illustrated the magnitude of Katrina's fury and hinted at the struggles of its survivors. The numbers of lives lost to Katrina are projected to be in the thousands, perhaps even the tens of thousands. The hundreds of thousands of survivors in southern Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi have suffered a life-changing experience. Many have lost family and friends. Many more have lost their homes and worldly possessions, including irreplaceable mementos. Many have lost their jobs.
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