A Small Victory - Times Like These: "We should just remember when watching and reading all of this that moments like these happen every day, but on a much smaller scale. That we, as Americans, have a lot to be proud of. We do not “need” a large scale tragedy to pull us together. We do this every day. The people who have emailed me, literally hundreds of people, in the past few days, offering help with Kids of Katrina, these are people that do this kind of thing regularly. They are there for their neighbors, just as they are there for total strangers. America is filled with people of enormous heart and generosity, and we must remember that. As the negative moments in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina go on display for all to see, we must counter that with not just the images of people rushing to New Orleans and Mississippi to help, of people in all states opening their arms and wallets and homes wide for total strangers, but with the knowledge that this is America. Not the people trying to make political, cultural or racial hay out of this, not the people taking a vulnerable moment and trying to see how they can profit off of it, not the people who took the opportunity to show their most inhumane traits, but the people who have reached out, who have come to the rescue, who have given a hand, a dollar, a book, a hug. These are the people that make up my America, the people that do this kind of thing every day, not just in times like these."

Exactly.