Reply #353: 9/10 (orig 9/2) Troops Entering N.O. Find LACK of Violence

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Met by Despair, Not Violence
As they begin to patrol the chaotic city, troops are surprised by what they don't find.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-tr...

The truck lurched through the streets, past buildings burning unabated and MPs in gun turrets. When they stopped to gear up for their arrival at the New Orleans Convention Center, where more than 15,000 people had been living in squalor since Katrina, these words echoed — for the first time, one would imagine — through the intersection of Poydras Avenue and Carondelet Street: "Lock and load!"

"Sixteen in the clip!" one Guardsman shouted, a common refrain used to indicate that rifles are fully loaded.

But when they arrived, they did not find marauding mobs. They did not come under fire. They found people who had lost everything in the storm and, since then, their dignity.