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coco77 Donating Member (966 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-01-07 10:51 AM
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Does anyone know..
or has anyone heard or seen an interview from the county official from Bernard parish whose mother died during Katrina, he was crying saying bush and his minions kept telling him help was coming and he was relaying to his mother, somebody is coming to get you, on Tuesday, somebody coming to get you on Wednesday and on and on and on...
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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-01-07 10:54 AM
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1. Yes, the video is here
http://operationeden.blogspot.com/2005/09/somebodys-coming-to-get-you-mama.html

"His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said. Are you coming. Son? Is somebody coming? And he said yeah. Mama. Somebody's coming to get you.. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday. And she drowned Friday night. And she drowned Friday night. Nobody's coming to get us. Nobody's coming to get us. The Secretary has promised. Everybody's promised. They've had press conferences. I'm sick of the press conferences. For god's sakes, just shut up and send us somebody.—Aaron Broussard
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blonndee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-01-07 10:56 AM
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2. Good god, I'll never forget seeing that on TV when it first aired.
Heartbreaking then, and just as much so now.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-01-07 10:59 AM
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3. Aaron Broussard
Is the name of the gentleman who broke down when describing the death of the mother of his employee services manager:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Broussard

The employee services manager is named Tom Rodrigue.
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