Reply #24: So well said; thank you for putting the horror into words

[Hekate]

I hope this actually saw print -- it deserves to be widely read, and is as current as it was on the day you wrote it.

Please, if you have not done so already, send it to those arrogant blind clueless congressmen. I saw part of the hearing -- the testimony of the survivors was powerful and raw, and Shays and the rest were just in complete denial.

Edited to add:
Another way in which the Drowning of New Orleans fits your Germany-on-the-eve-of model is the way in which the victims Did As They Were Told. They were told to go to those arenas -- and they did. Just another piece of the horror.

Hekate