Frau Muller said:OK - so grandma lived in the 9th ward among the African-American and Hispanic poor? Uh....most likely not. Nice public-relations bit, though. Sort of like Surya Bonaly having been born on Reunion Island, found in the jungles beneath a waterfall. Yeah....right. Go tell it to the Marines.
Thank you. This has nothing to do with any kind of pity. For any person, especially an elderly one, especially one who has obviously been through a lot (understatement), to loose their home is tragic.Pixie Cut said:A lot of residential neighborhoods, rich and poor, were flooded by Katrina.
I think you're stretching. "Janna" usually posts in Sarah-related threads.And FYI, Loren's mother's name is Janina. She may just be the one who started this thread.
Frau Muller said:What else can G-R/M say? They're eating crow, regardless.
Sympathy & sadness aside:
....grandmother, Eva Galler, 84, passed away last week in Dallas. A survivor of the Holocaust, she was flooded out of her New Orleans home by Hurricane Katrina.
OK - so grandma lived in the 9th ward among the African-American and Hispanic poor? Uh....most likely not. Nice public-relations bit, though. Sort of like Surya Bonaly having been born on Reunion Island, found in the jungles beneath a waterfall. Yeah....right. Go tell it to the Marines.
dwiggin3 said:May all the dance teams (and pairs and singles) skate thier best and let the cards fall as they may.
Darby
dwiggin3 said:I.....it also does a great disservice to people who lost thier lives/homes in the storm. (we could have a whole other debate about why the demographics of the 9th ward are not participating in sports such as skating, but that's a diff. thread)......
Darby
Normally, I'm quite sensitive to that kind of stuff as well (remember the bit on TV when Xue Shen's mom was talking about Xue and her dad having to share a treat because they couldn't afford two?). However, this seems a rather succinct statement with hardly any spin.Frau Muller said:My point is that the figure skating world is so full of 'Surya Stories' that I have to think twice about every p.r. statement that is issued.
Frau Muller said:What else can G-R/M say? They're eating crow, regardless.
Sympathy & sadness aside:
....grandmother, Eva Galler, 84, passed away last week in Dallas. A survivor of the Holocaust, she was flooded out of her New Orleans home by Hurricane Katrina.
OK - so grandma lived in the 9th ward among the African-American and Hispanic poor? Uh....most likely not. Nice public-relations bit, though. Sort of like Surya Bonaly having been born on Reunion Island, found in the jungles beneath a waterfall. Yeah....right. Go tell it to the Marines.
LittleAngelCora said:As has everything in my life as of late discussion inevitably turns to Katrina. Just a little FYI for people who haven't seen it with their own eyes-lots of places got it just as bad as the 9th Ward and a lot of places got it WORSE. Like my community that became the Gulf of Mexico for days on end and when the water finally cleared there was not much of anything left. I could tell you where I'm from but you've probably never heard of it even though it was the first place Katrina's eye passed across. It wasn't just the very poor or just the very rich that suffered, but whatever your situation in life, it doesn't matter. Your house is still your house and your town is still your town and those are two things that should never be taken away from someone. So just try to be a little sensitive when referring to all things Katrina---because some of us deal with her legacy everyday.
And excuse me if I went off on a tangent, but this is a topic I can't just not comment on.
Courtney
gkelly said:In case anyone is interested in Mrs. Galler's story, here's an obituary, which was linked from Michelle Wojdyla's blog on the Nationals website:
http://www.nola.com/obituaries/t-p/index.ssf?/base/obits-33/1136532280233490.xml
And here's a post from FSU giving links to detailed oral histories with the Gallers:
http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/showpost.php?p=755531&postcount=14