Memorial Day

Mark Folse over at Toulouse Street has written a must read post about the citizens of New Orleans.

An excerpt

These are a people who have seen death and devastation, known loss and disappointment that is painful to catalog and still they get up on certain days and march down to the appointed place and eat and drink and dance and are happy. They are at once not that different from my parents sitting out on Memorial Day and at some deep level they are profoundly transformed. As we approach the fourth anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina and the Federal Flood they are people who have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and made the case for why we should be here. Few people since the days of the pioneers have a stronger claim to a place.