Heh. Yah. I don’t have the pic handy, but there was a great picture during the initial evac of New Orleans of a little black kid being hoisted in a basket into a CG helocopter, and the smile on his face was just beaming as he looked up to the helo crewman tending the line.
I recall forwarding that pic to friends and family with my caption “future coastie”.
Of course there’s no way to know if this is ever true.
Yes! My "gut feeling," too.
And I'm glad to know that a lot of those kids are far away from the negativity still being spouted by their supposed "leaders" in Louisiana.