Finally, someone that understands that the innocent suffers with the poor. I have read some of the posts and they read like heartless people. They are no worse than the dispicable looters. Learn to have compassion in time of misery regardless of the wrong that some are doing.
Many of those people could not get out for various reasons. Some stayed to be a menance, but I still send my prayers to the innocent.
It is tough for the older folk, obviously. Easy to be a monday morning quaterback from 1000's of miles away.
Lesson learned is to get the heck outta Dodge before the storm hits!!!
rave, you wrote, "the innocent suffers with the poor"; and I'm remembering that the poor will always be with us. If we can't stay vulnerable and help the poor and those who suffer, we will lose our humanity.
It is the magnatude of this disaster and their helpless frustration that makes some people rage out with harsh words. I'm angry too when I see amoral people hindering the rescue and recovery effort. I've been praying:
Prayer to St. Martin De Porres
St. Martin De Porres, you whom God favored with black skin and a love for all peoples and especially the poor, pray that we may look upon everyone with love.
Pray that we may always keep our souls clean and pure, and realize that all races of thw world belong to the one family of God. Amen.