Harold was correct. I hit the reply button without looking carefully at the origin of Jon's Kukla's. Sorry about that.
>
> From: Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2006/02/02 Thu AM 11:26:48 EST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Lance Banning
>
> To Warren, John, and All,
>
> I know this was probably a private message not meant for the list and I
> also know that the disaster in New Orleans is not exactly a H-VA-Hist
> subject but feel the need to vent.
> I have wondered why not even the NY Times has focused on the delta
> parishes in Louisiana, St Bernard and Plaquemines (actually the NYT finally
> did an article on St. Bernard Parish). They were hit harder even than New
> Orleans as Katrina passed right over them. I talked to a young historian,
> born and bred in Plaquemines, who went back several times to help her
> parents. She was devastated by the destruction there. She said that save
> for her parents' home NOTHING was left standing in Plaquemines and there
> were no services; water, electricity, health, etc.
> Roughly 55,000 people lived in the two parishes. The NYT did report
> that when people escaping the destruction in Plaquemines made it to New
> Orleans the Thursday after Katrina, they felt saved. They didn't look on
> the terrible destruction in New Orleans as dismaying because the conditions
> for survival were so much better in the city than in the rural parish they
> had escaped.
> Warren's notifying us of this new storm to hit the area reminds us of
> how vulnerable the conditions of life are for the entire west Gulf area.
> While hurricanes are not predictable it is inevitable that a string of
> strong storms will hit the west Gulf region and will further damage
> infrastructure there.
> Forget partisanship for a minute (I am a Democrat and proud of it) but
> why has the civil service of the United States--the nonpartisan bulk of the
> national bureaucracy--bungled this disaster so badly? Over a million
> people's very lives were and are at risk.
> A great city has been humbled by nature in what is certainly the greatest
> natural disaster in American history.
> I don't know what the answers are but I certainly have the question: if
> American citizens are suffering from neglect and in harm's way through no
> fault of their own, and this has been known for quite some time by our
> national government, and little is being done to protect and ressurrect the
> lives of my fellow citizens, what the hell am I paying taxes for?
>
> Harold S. Forsythe
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Warren M. Billings" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Lance Banning
>
>
> > Jon,
> >
> > Sad news, but not unexpected. I knew from one of my former students who is
> > in the PhD program there that he had cancer and not much time to live. As
> > I remember, we only met once or twice, but we corresponded often during
> > the period when I was trying to place my student. He seemed a decent sort.
> > Fine scholar as well.
> >
> > I got back to NO midafternoon yesterday. We had a terrific storm here last
> > night. Evidently there was some tornadic like damage over in West
> > Lakeshore. Roofs blown off, trees down, that sort of thing. There was no
> > power at our house when I left for Solomon Place to do a bit of
> > babysitting. Mother Nature sure has it in for us!
> >
> > Warren
> >>
> >> From: Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Date: 2006/02/02 Thu AM 10:48:55 EST
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Lance Banning
> >>
> >> History News Network posted this from Kentucky newspapers. Among other
> >> things, Professor Banning was a distinguished interpreter of James
> >> Madison.
> >>
> >>
> >> "A University of Kentucky history professor and author has died. Lance
> >> Banning was nationally known as an expert on the period of American
> >> history from the American Revolution to the U-S Constitution.
> >>
> >> Banning died yesterday {Feb 1} at U-K Hospital in Lexington. He was 64.
> >>
> >> Banning was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his book "The Sacred Fire of
> >> Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic." He also
> >> wrote a book about the conflict between the early political parties.
> >>
> >> U-K history department chairman Dan Smith says Banning was a dedicated
> >> teacher. Banning had taught history at U-K since 1973."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Dr. Jon Kukla, Executive Vice-President
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> >>
> >> Fax 434-376-2647
> >>
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> >> - Karen Gorham-Smith, Associate Curator
> >> - Edith Poindexter, Curator
> >>
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