(80) Katrina Victims Are Buried, 3 Years After

Source: CBS News/AP

Nearly 80 Bodies Entombed In Memorial To Be Dedicated On Anniversary Of 2005 Storm


(CBS/AP) The unclaimed bodies of close to 80 victims of Hurricane Katrina have finally been entombed - nearly three years after the storm - by a group of funeral home owners who said they took it upon themselves to inter the remains because they felt the city and coroner's office were too slow to do so.

Workers scrambled to complete the memorial by Friday's third anniversary of the storm on what was vacant land just five weeks ago. Six mausoleums make up part of the memorial located at the end of a historic streetcar line.

Many believed the fatigued city would have no place to inter the 85 bodies. The city coroner, already grappling with one of the nation's worst murder rates, was placed in charge of the $1.2 million effort last year and progress was slow. The inactivity was seen as another example of the sluggish climate that has characterized the city's rebuilding from the 2005 storm that killed 1,600 people, half of whom were at least 75 years old, according to a new report.

C.C. Johnson, a mortician at Littlejohn Funeral Home, said the remains were entombed Thursday.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/28/katrina/main4393238.shtml

and they go unclaimed and this story unnoticed :cry:

No doubt some weren't claimed to avoid paying for the burial. Family didn't have enough money or worse didn't care. How completely sad.

avoid paying for funeral? What kind of a human being are you?

And you base this supposition on...?

I remember that heat wave Chicago had a few years back and there was a woman whose old day had died but she didn't want to claim the body and pay for a funeral but she got his life insurance.

A BUSH WATCH SPECIAL: DUBYA AND THE GRAVEDIGGER.

http://www.bushwatch.com/gravedigger.htm



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FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals

Miriam Raftery

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has hired Kenyon International to set up a mobile morgue for handling bodies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina, RAW STORY has learned.

Kenyon is a subsidiary of Service Corporation International (SCI), a scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family. Recently, SCI subsidiaries have been implicated in illegally discarding and desecrating corpses.

Louisiana governor Katherine Blanco subsequently inked a contract with the firm after talks between FEMA and the firm broke down. Kenyon's original deal was secured by the Department of Homeland Security.

In other words, FEMA and then Blanco outsourced the body count from Hurricane Katrina -- which many believe the worst natural disaster in U.S. history -- to a firm whose parent company is known for its "experience" at hiding and dumping bodies.

More:
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/FEMA_outsources_Katrina_body_count_to_firm_implicated_in_bodydumping_scan_0913.html


See also:

http://TinyUrl.com/McCainAndKatrina

Sometimes there aren't enough words.

k&r

"the 2005 storm that killed 1,600 people"


I have a really really hard time believing that number. It had to have been much higher....

Such a shameful horrible thing. Poor NOLA.....and how quickly and easily most Americans just put it out of their minds....so sad....makes me so angry the way that all played out. No excuse for it.


*sigh*

More died following the storm, suicides increased, as well the elderly and infirmed succumbed. Those numbers are not adequately reported, but they are accessible.

... for the next hurricane! :wtf:

Especially the actions of the government, but if it did one thing right, it also brought down the Conservative way of governing.