“Some of the spirit of the celebration and this city is African-American and Creole, and we?re missing a lot of that now. Some people just disappeared.”
“It's hard to forget that just a couple miles away there is complete destruction where the city was so teeming with life. How is it going to come back?”
“Usually, the parades are almost too rowdy, to the point where you're kind of nervous. This year, it's easy to walk around and people are so friendly. It's a changed place.”
