Posted on 03/24/2015 10:26:25 AM PDT by Kartographer
An Air Force veteran is asking the Internet's help to reconnect him with a girl he rescued 10 years ago during Hurricane Katrina.
The hashtag #FindKatrinaGirl has now taken off on social media.
A 2005 photograph of the two shows the girl in pigtails and a pink shirt squeezing Michael Maroney, now a master sergeant at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. The iconic New Orleans image has served as a symbol of hope after the devastation.
"When she wrapped me up with that hug, I just melted, and the weight of the world was lifted off my shoulders," Maroney, 40, told ABC News today. "Everything in the world just stopped, and I wasn’t in New Orleans or in the devastation, I was just being hugged by a beautiful little girl."
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Why?
Why not?
Why not, indeed. On a warm San Francisco day in the Eighties, I was rushing to lunch with a friend. I passed a sad old guy wearing a yarmulke lugging a bag of groceries. When I heard the bag crash to the ground I turned around and helped him collect the stuffed that spilled out. His eyes lit up and he thanked me profusely with a heavy accent. As he walked away he was actually smiling. I often wondered what happened to him or whether he had family to take care of him in his last years on earth.
Over ten years ago there was an accident ahead of me on the interstate. I managed to get to the young boy in the back by going through the rear window and held his head to together until EMTs arrived. He was very brave and cooperative and much more concerned about his mother than his own welfare. I have thought several times about trying to find him.
What part of the scripture did you not understand?
I’d like to know the fate of a certain Christian family in Baghdad. I gave them an artificial Christmas tree that my wife had sent to me in 2008. The dad said his kids had never had a Christmas tree before so I was happy to part with mine.
Why?
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If you have to ask, it’s doubtful you would understand the answer.
Why not, indeed!
On a very cold winter night many years ago, my partner and I pulled two little blond twin girls overcome by smoke from a house fire, gave them both mouth-to-mouth and loaded them into the arriving ambulance...
They were whisked away, and I never did learn how they fared...It was my job, after all, and something like this was all too commonplace for further note...
Years later, shortly before I retired, a young mother with a babe in her arms showed up at my station and introduced herself...She was one of the twins...We talked a long while...She had looked for me and my crew, and just wanted to introduce her baby daughter and thank us for going to work that day...
That one visit, the knowledge she’d lived and her “Thank You” was the best reward I ever got for my years of service...Things have a way of coming full circle...
In a 50 shades world, anything is possible
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