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| Barack Obama Marks Rebirth of New |
| Barack Obama Marks Rebirth of New Orleans, 10 Years After Katrina
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 27-August-2015
12:54:45 PM |
| US President Barack Obama will tout New Orleans' inspirational if incomplete resurgence today, 10 years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the "Big Easy" and shattered Americans' confidence in government.
Obama will travel to Louisiana to mark the rebirth of a city eulogized by Tennessee Williams as the "last frontier of Bohemia," but which in August 2005 became a Hobbesian dystopia of death and looting.
He will visit the Lower Ninth Ward, a poor neighborhood which Katrina made as synonymous with New Orleans as Dixieland jazz or Mardis Gras on Bourbon Street.
"This new community center stands as a symbol of the extraordinary resilience of this city and its people," Obama is expected to say.
"You are an example of what's possible when, in the face of tragedy and hardship, good people come together to lend a hand, and to build a better future."
More than 1,800 people were killed and one million more displaced when Katrina barreled in from the Gulf of Mexico, destroying levees and submerging 80 percent of the city in effluent-tainted storm water.
Americans -- almost congenitally imbued with optimism and a sense of invulnerability -- watched shocked as stranded survivors waited day after day on rooftops for government help that was painfully slow to come.
Obama will look to contrast that troubled initial
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