Posted by: rooster
In reply to: F6 who wrote msg# 31834 Date:9/1/2005 6:03:31 PM
Post #of 35317
Alot of what is being reported is total BS! Don't believe alot of it. After they report those stories they are quickly found out to be untrue.
Guard leader wants to set the record straight on the Superdome after Katrina
06:45 PM CST on Thursday, November 3, 2005
WWLTV.com
The colonel in charge of the National Guard at the Louisiana Superdome in the days after Katrina said the shelter of last resort was a miserable place to be but that the behavior of the residents was misrepresented.
Colonel Thomas Beron said there were no murders and that the people were receiving food and water.
"There were no homicides,” he stressed. “There were six fatalities. I'll tell you, I helped load every single body onto the FEMA trucks after the superdome was cleared."
Beron told members of the New Orleans City Council that he wants to set the record straight. He says there were some deaths in the dome, but they resulted from natural causes, an apparent suicide and a drug overdose.
Beron also said that most of the 35,000 evacuees were orderly, and though it wasn’t gourmet, they weren’t starving.
“The facts were we were fed twice a day, an MRE and a bottle of water, and after Wednesday, when we got more water, an MRE and two bottles of water in the morning and in the evening."
Beron said that members of the National Guard remain in New Orleans, providing extra patrols in every police district in the city.
"We're on the lookout for looters,” he said. “We're looking out for people who are where they're not supposed to be."
Beron says there is no date set for a pullout, adding that the guard's mission is likely to last months.
