My shop is donating money to people effected by this through red cross or personally to one of our fellow Airmen that lost everything in Miss. some are donating to both causes while others donated to our co worker and refuse to donate to the red cross for fear that the looting, raping, killing peice of shit mother fuckers would benefit. And I cant say I blame them, those people ruined it for themselves, people are willing to help, but after seeing what is happening down there people are not going to help!
Another thing, I am sick and ashamed to call my self an american being in another country. We were sitting watching the Korean news and they showed what was happening in New Orleans, one of the civilian nationals that works with us looked at me and said, why are americans doing this? I had no answer for him, I felt ashamed and embarassed. All the world is watching this happen and as if the image of americans across the globe was not bad it is getting worse. Before this happened alot of the Koreans I talked to had a great opinion of americans, now some just kinda are in disbelief that, and this is a quote, "in a great country like america, why do people steal, and rape, and kill others when everything is bad enough" I am still proud to serve, and am happy to be american, but I find it hard to hang my head up high in a time like this.