With less than twenty four hours to go before hurricane Katrina hit land my wife and I started to pack up the car to leave St Bernard Parish Louisiana. We had to have the brakes repaired only an hour before we left. We had to depend on the kindness of a neighbor who was frantically working on the…
One man’s single-minded determination built this city on a swamp, on territory claimed by the enemy. Years later, Hitler decreed it should be wiped off the face of the earth. The name of the city? St. Petersburg, Russia’s Window on Europe, Venice of the North, City of Light, is quite simply the…
Most of us who have lived beyond the teenage years, know that there will always be opportunist like those spoken of in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, who have chosen to take advantage of this unfortunate situation to satiate their own needs or wants. The regrettable consequence is that in so…