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Answering Katrina's call
Southeast Missourian reporter Scott Moyers and photographer Don Frazier were invited to accompany the National Guard's 1140th Engineer Battalion on their way to Louisiana and New Orleans for clean-up operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Reflections on the 1140th in New Orleans
(09/18/05) Editor's note: Southeast Missourian reporter Scott Moyers and photographer Don Frazier returned to Cape Girardeau last week after covering the cleanup efforts of the 1140th Engineer Battalion in New Orleans. Our olive-drab military truck was sloshing its way through New Orleans -- the parts where the tourists don't go -- when we saw him. ... 
Day 6: Clearing a road to recovery
(09/14/05)NEW ORLEANS -- The 1140th Engineer Battalion began its mission in earnest Tuesday, removing debris from residential roads so their paths will be clear when weary New Orleans residents decide to come home. With floodwater slowly subsiding around them, the guardsmen began work at about 7 a.m... 
Day 5: Guardsmen offer food and water to stragglers while scouting neighborhood
(09/13/05)NEW ORLEANS -- With a breathy series of whistles, Staff Sgt. David McClure was almost pleading: "Come here, boy, come on." The exposed ribs on a gaunt black dog told a sad story. Flies buzzed around his quizzical face as the canine considered the camouflaged men from the 1140th Engineer Battalion. Friend or foe? The dog -- apparently abandoned in the rush to escape Hurricane Katrina -- seemed unsure... 
Day four: Guard settles in; prepares for missions
(09/12/05)NEW ORLEANS -- The soldiers of the 1140th Engineer Battalion entered New Orleans for the first time Sunday, setting up camp in a former party town that now is occupied by corpses floating in flooded streets, a million displaced refugees and mounds of trash and debris... 
Day three: A lesson on deadly force
(09/11/05)BELLE CHASSE NAVAL AIR STATION, La. -- For the 12 months that Sgt. 1st Class Randy Seabaugh was in the heated Iraqi war zone, he was never forced to fire a single shot at another human being. He certainly doesn't want to start now. Because he's in hurricane-battered Louisiana. Because it would be a shot at a fellow American and not at an Iraqi enemy...
Day two: 1140th gets first views of destruction
(09/10/05) BELLE CHASE NAVAL AIR STATION, La. -- Louisiana introduced the tragedy slowly to its new visitors Friday, preparing them for Hurricane Katrina's inevitable worst... 
Answering Katrina's call; Day one: On the road to Louisiana
(09/09/05)National Guard troops say good-bye to loved ones before heading to New Orleans. CAMP MCCAIN, Miss. -- The night before Spc. Mitchell Kester hit the road Thursday to help New Orleans recover from the brutal aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he spent some time with a decidedly less fierce female: his 2-year-old daughter, Abigail... |