Monday, September 26, 2005

The Atrocities that never happened in NOLA

All we heard non-stop was mass deaths, murder, rape, mayhem.

Four weeks after the storm, few of the widely reported atrocities have been backed with evidence. The piles of murdered bodies never materialized, and soldiers, police officers and rescue personnel on the front lines assert that, while anarchy reigned at times and people suffered indignities, most of the worst crimes reported at the time never happened.

Somehow the truth always comes out.