It is too bad that the world does not know of the heroic work of the Coast Guard (and others) which made more than 33,000 rescues, most of them by helicopter. This is a resuce of Herculean proportions.
The outpouring of generosity by people all over this country who opened up their homes to displaced Katrina victims is also unprecedented.
Since the agenda-driven DBM wanted Bush to get a bad name from this more than they might like the world to know what a wonderful country we have, they never highlighted any of this,preferring to show Heraldo and Shep Smith frantic at the dome or Convention center, carefully not showing 360 degrees or TV audiences might have seen things like people moving out on buses and people eating....where did all that food trash come from???
Amen. local, state and federal responses were botched at most steps along the way, but no sane person can question that the USCG was damn-near superhuman. They got their assets out of harm's way before the crash, then got them into (or back into) the zone in a hurry.
Before the next disaster, it's worth taking a mine out of finger-pointing to take a look at what the USCG got right. They did credit to their motto, "semper paratus" -- always prepared.