Saturday, September 03, 2005

Hurricane Katrina: Xavier Bowie, 1948-2005

From CNN.com:

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- When Xavier Bowie died in a flooded New Orleans neighborhood, his wife did the best she could in a city so preoccupied with saving the living that no one can deal with the dead.

She wrapped his body in a sheet, laid him on a makeshift bier of plywood boards, with a little help, and floated him down to the main road.

[Read the whole story here].

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