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Tuesday, 29 August 2006
I went back to New Orleans a week after Katrina to get my video camera, among other things, but I couldn't shoot. My staff will tell you I don't know how to work the camera. Truth is, I had it locked and loaded but couldn't pull the trigger. I didn't want to remember New Orleans that way.

All my computer records and insurance photos from that time were wiped out, too, during the evacuation. My computer can forget those days, not me.

Katrina provided the perfect opportunity to get out of New Orleans. It's not an easy place to live and it's not a good place to do business. But I couldn't let her go. New Orleans has a soul that is very deep and very old. After the hurricane, everyone was more thoughtful, helpful, and humble.

New Orleans is one of North America's oldest cities, the kind of sacred place that any European or Asian government would spend a fortune to protect. Yet the United States Government is basically ready to write this city off and replace it with housing and jobs elsewhere, as if everything were interchangeable.

But New Orleans is unique. No one who has lived there, few who have visited, can ever forget her. Many of us wish we could lose the whole past year; we can't. It's part of New Orleans like yellowjack and yankees.

New Orleans deserves levees of steel, not mud, so she can lay safely behind them and heal. Please don't let her go, America -- please don't let her go.

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