More Photo's of March-April's trip

A Job Well Done and the Story that You are not seeing on your TV screen.

Al Coffey and I personal want to thank Mike Meade and his girlfriend, Elaine for talking the time out of their busy lives to help out. Mike works for a film company and they were kind enough to let him go for a week. Elaine works for Wal-Mart and they also let her go once they found out what she was doing. Their story is repeated many times over all over this county.
We now have 5 schools we have adopted, and put on 2,000 miles. And after talking with everyone, well, they want to go back. Go back to the mud, go back living out of a car and on the go for a week, go back to living on very little sleep, yes go back. But why you may ask?
There is something going on in this county that I believe is at the core of what this county is about, that is, helping those in need. And down here in the Gulf Coast there is STILL a need. And that need is being answered by I do not know how many thousands of people all across this county right now as I write this. Henry the fiddler and I use to say this. That is, how many hundreds if not thousands of small groups are there out there that are helping people down here? On their own they can see the need. There are many small churches that are STILL sending people to help. We run across them in our travels, all age groups from all walks of life. You will not see it in the news maybe but they are STILL coming down. But why may you ask?
When we go down it’s about a week and in that week we try to fit in as much as we can in a 24 hour day. So the scope of what happened down here is something the brain I do not think can wrap itself around. If you came down and lived with us for a week then you would understand what I am trying to saying. You might ask yourself, what about the government? I am not going to spend the space here talking about what they have not done and still are not doing. But I would like to quote Time magazine front page story Aug. 13, 2007 “The most important thing to remember about the drowning of New Orleans is that it wasn’t a natural disaster. It was man-made disaster, created by lousy engineering, misplaced priorities and pork barrel politics.” And I would add to that many other communities across the Gulf Coast. But why may you ask is this STILL going on?
The scope of what happen back in 2005 demands a Marshall plan on our own very shore. This is our own county that this happened too. And even though the government has been lacking, the slack has been taken up by folks across this county with little or no fanfare. Liberals right next to conservatives, religious folk’s right next to born- again pagans. At the end of the day it does not matter. They roll up their sleeves and get to work. That is the American spirit. And it’s for very real. You are not seeing this on your TV. Why, may you ask? That question and many more is something that all of us who have been down there are STILL asking.
Still Pickin’
Bill Hudson


http://www.dragonfly.com/ is sending entertainers to the devastated areas in Louisiana and Mississippi.