Ten years after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, much of the physical damage the storm caused in the city of New Orleans has been repaired. Neighborhoods and communities have been rebuilt. Schools, hospitals, businesses, and restaurants have re-opened.
But a deeper, invisible wound brought by the storm remains. Thousands of residents, and especially children, were traumatized by the storm and the displacement and struggle that followed.
In late August of 2005, Kendall Booker was in fifth grade, watching cartoons. All of a sudden, the program blacked out, and then President George Bush appeared on screen. Annoyed, Kendall flipped through the stations in search of another cartoon. But all he saw was the president. "And my mind just snaps," Kendall remembers. "Something really is going on and it's serious to where like, this man is on 50 channels. So I decided to listen but at that time I couldn't comprehend everything."
[For more of this story, written by Laine Kaplan-Levenson, go to http://www.newsworks.org/index...trauma-that-lingers-]
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