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New Orleans: Next Steps on the Road to Recovery
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National Urban League. The State of Black America
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January 1, 2006
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Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans
And miss it each night and day
I know I'm not wrong... this feeling's gettin' stronger
The longer, I stay away.
Louis Armstrong
Somebody ought to circulate the lyrics of Louis Alter, made famous by the legendary jazz artist and famous New Orleans native, Louis Armstrong, "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans." Every member of my family, with roots in the bayou state since the mid180Os, is now playing this 1947 song. We miss New Orleans-its smell, its weather, its culture, its people, its language and, most importantly, we miss our neighbors and our homes.
Last year will go down in my family's history book as the year of sorrow. Between ...
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