“thousands” of babies passed forward" Air Force Times

[preciousdove]

http://www.airforcetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1086729.php
Priority mission: Reuniting missing children with parents after Katrina

September 07, 2005

...As desperation and uncertainty grew, however, parents who wanted to ensure survival for their infant children starting passing them forward. The crowd moved them ahead, hand over hand, and presented them to the Guard members at the metal barricades separating them from the buses.

Pollard said he saw “thousands” of babies passed forward that way over two days of evacuations, despite urgings not to do so.

The soldiers and airmen had no idea what to do with the babies, so they would order the crowd to pass them back to the parents. But the crowd would often respond saying that they didn’t know which direction the babies came from. Nonetheless, the infants would be passed back over the mob, eventually disappearing out of the troops’ view.

Now, locating and reuniting missing children and their parents is one of the most desperate missions being conducted nationwide in the wake of Hurricane Katrina....

[Pirate Smile]

1. How horrifying! The nightmare aspects of this are unbelievable.

[DELUSIONAL]

2. These parents were willing to give up their children

so that they would have a chance to live.

Meaning that these people believe that they were going to left to DIE.

The half-human Republicans who are in charge now -- THEY are willing to take EVERYTHING for themselves to hell with the babies.

[fortyfeetunder]

5. That's right..more valuable in the womb.

the atrocity.

[jwirr]

3. That made me think of the last days in Vietnam,

mothers there were handing their children across to airport fence to be placed on the orphan planes. Those soldiers did not refuse.

[Porcupine]

4. American children starved at gunpoint by US troops....

What have we become?

[donheld]

6. I'm stunned

I'm glad the parents thought about putting the children first, but still it's staggering to think, they'd do this.