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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
The official count means nothing, though it is the largest modern day loss of life. It means nothing because hundreds more are missing. The volume of children missing is - for our modern, up to date country - earth shattering.
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I thought the Trade Center collapse in NY was the largest modern day loss of life?
Also what does the term missing children mean? Last week one of the news stations reported over 4000 missing and displayed rotating pictures of them. My wife and I were wondering if it means that their mothers lost them in the shuffle and really cannot find them or are they lost in the flood somewhere?
I guess some of the reporting is a result of statements made by city officials and others.
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Some of the hesitation that journalists might have had about using the more sordid reports from the evacuation centers probably fell away when New Orleans' top officials seemed to confirm the accounts.
Nagin and Police Chief Eddie Compass appeared on "Oprah" a few days after trouble at the Superdome had peaked.
Mayor C. Ray Nagin told a national television audience on "Oprah" three weeks ago of people "in that frickin' Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people."
Compass told of "the little babies getting raped" at the Superdome. And Nagin made his claim about hooligans raping and killing."
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