I admire Japanese culture and people enough to train in their art of Aikido for many years. I think in some ways that gives me insight to their culture. In some ways I enter the culture each time I open a dojo door and bow

But I'm an American. We had heroes in Katrina too. And we lost a lot, a culture and way of life.

"What made me stay was the old people. I just realized that nobody else in here could have gotten those people out. They would have sat in here for five more days. And they didn't have five more days."

http://blog.nola.com/elizabethmullen...nging_out.html