Summer of Death

Today I lost someone very special to me. My grandmother left this earth. She is the first person I have ever lost that was close to me. Death has been dancing near me all summer. First it was only people that I knew then death got closer. My Grandmother was a good woman. She treated all people with respect. She loved her family and friends unconditionally. Her family came first what made her babies happy is what made her happy. I can still see my grandmother's smile, hear her voice and laugh. Even now since I am older I sat in my Grandmother's lap. We sat and talked about her life, our family, and things that happened before I was born or when I was little. I will always remember the stories she told me. My grandmother went through a hard time the last part of her life, yet she remained strong for her family. She was a great mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Aunt, Sister, Wife, and Friend. She lead a full life. You will always be loved. I love you, and miss you .

Forgotten

It seems to me that People have forgotton the national tragedy that took place in New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina seems now to have been nothing more than a ratings cash cow for the news networks. Mid-term elections are comings up and it seems to me that the events that happened in New Orleans, and following lack of planning and leadership would be a huge point to make. People's live are forever ruined the least that people could do in the media is have updates. It isn't just the media that has forgotton the government has let it slip their mind and so did our fellow americans. It was once you couldn't have a conversation with out New Orleans coming up. Now I will be lucky to hear one thing about Katrina. The Hurricane Season started, yet my confidence that New Orleans is ready for another hurricane is low. levees aren't completed. Also there needed to be a major cleaning of house in FEMA they fumble that whole situation. To add the pain that the orleanians went through tax fraud is occuring. Money that FEMA received to give to the victims is either gone or going to people who don't need the money. We as americans tend to give a lot of attention at one time and treat things as if they mean so much to us until we get bored with it then its "oh, I forgot all about that". New Orleans is still in disarray, people still live in tents or on the streets. the govn't oblviously has bigger things to deal with like securing foreign nations, banning gay marriage, televison obsenity, killing terrorist (conveniently close to mid-term elections?). My point here is this the people still need help. The problems that were there in november are still there, we can't forget about our brothers and sisters.