NicoMoon
08-26-2006, 08:54 AM
I felt the need to start a new thread for this. I'm going to direct relevant items from the newsfeeds here also.
Debby wrote in the "A Rescue in Progress Story" thread:
Wow, I was reading the board tonight and thinking it's been almost a full year. Time has flown by and we have achieved so much. Reading this brings back so many fond memories of how I landed here and the endless hours of helping people. Reading this once again reminds me of how proud I am to be part of a wonderful team.
I was trying to write something as well. I'm having a lot of emotions as the memories of the days and months following Katrina are flooding back, pun intended.
Something we learned here during that time is how fervent Americans are about offering a hand in times of emergency. That's the good side of the story. The sad side is that we are too quick to forget.
Many times we Let's Roll volunteers vowed that we would not forget the victims of Katrina, and that we would stick with them until the end. The end has not come for so many of these folks, so I guess it's time to renew our vows.
As the media once again puts its focus on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region and we get reminders of all that is still left to do, I sincerely hope that "Let's Roll" takes on a new life.
Debby, I am beyond proud to have worked with you as a volunteer in the Katrina rescue and relief effort. All of us who participated here are folks who couldn't leave our homes to do the dirty work on the scene. What we did do though, was to create and utilize whatever resources we could from our homes. The internet became an invaluable resource for us.
We learned a lot about the need for citizens to be prepared and equipped to take emergency action. This was the big one for me.
So, I'm going to be taking advantage of this time of restrospection to once again promote the Let's Roll project, and the concept that volunteerism is about giving what we can, no matter how small our contribution may seem. As we learned during Katrina, just the fact of someone's willingness to make themselves available on a routine schedule to keep an eye on the message boards, take or make a phone call if necessary, or even just to research and post information for an hour or so a day made a big difference.
Well, I could go on and on, and I likely will in subsequent posts.
Debby wrote in the "A Rescue in Progress Story" thread:
Wow, I was reading the board tonight and thinking it's been almost a full year. Time has flown by and we have achieved so much. Reading this brings back so many fond memories of how I landed here and the endless hours of helping people. Reading this once again reminds me of how proud I am to be part of a wonderful team.
I was trying to write something as well. I'm having a lot of emotions as the memories of the days and months following Katrina are flooding back, pun intended.
Something we learned here during that time is how fervent Americans are about offering a hand in times of emergency. That's the good side of the story. The sad side is that we are too quick to forget.
Many times we Let's Roll volunteers vowed that we would not forget the victims of Katrina, and that we would stick with them until the end. The end has not come for so many of these folks, so I guess it's time to renew our vows.
As the media once again puts its focus on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region and we get reminders of all that is still left to do, I sincerely hope that "Let's Roll" takes on a new life.
Debby, I am beyond proud to have worked with you as a volunteer in the Katrina rescue and relief effort. All of us who participated here are folks who couldn't leave our homes to do the dirty work on the scene. What we did do though, was to create and utilize whatever resources we could from our homes. The internet became an invaluable resource for us.
We learned a lot about the need for citizens to be prepared and equipped to take emergency action. This was the big one for me.
So, I'm going to be taking advantage of this time of restrospection to once again promote the Let's Roll project, and the concept that volunteerism is about giving what we can, no matter how small our contribution may seem. As we learned during Katrina, just the fact of someone's willingness to make themselves available on a routine schedule to keep an eye on the message boards, take or make a phone call if necessary, or even just to research and post information for an hour or so a day made a big difference.
Well, I could go on and on, and I likely will in subsequent posts.