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Jazz parade 'appropriate' end of mourning

rick

Administrator
August 30, 2006
By John Hill
jhillbr@gannett.com

NEW ORLEANS "" Lorraine Raftery, 23, stood on Poydras Avenue on a hot, partly cloudy day, the heat relieved by a slight breeze "" a stark contrast to Katrina's fury one year ago.

The jazz parade, led by Mayor Ray Nagin and Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, the U.S. Army general who commanded federal forces in the weeks after Katrina, was....

....A cheer went up. An airboat, part of the "Cajun Navy," the south Louisianans who flocked to New Orleans to rescue the thousands trapped in the floodwaters, was going by.

Full story: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060830/NEWS01/608300325/1002/NEWS
 
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