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“We're only a weekend through this and it feels like a month. But we're doing fine.”
Joe Peel
“They're carrying all the food and water that they possibly can, ... Also their bedding and their backpacks. They will actually stay where they go. They don't know if it's on the ground or if there will be a tent or anything, they won't know until they get there.”
“Yesterday he was talking about how some of the guys might be on boats, some might be on army trucks and some on foot.”
“As soon as we came in this morning, at 8 o'clock there was an e-mail on the computer,”
“They will be dispersed to certain parishes,”
“I just want to hear someone call and say they're OK, ... Not hearing from them, that's going to be different, I've been able to hear from them each day since they left.”
“We made sure we explained to them that they're going to help other people -- they're going to help other kids and older people,”
“My youngest one, who is 9, asked why is it her daddy that is going,”
“She understands the severity of what's going on down there and that those people need help, ... She's OK with it.”
“We stayed as long as we could, ... We had to get the kids out of there because they were getting so emotional.”
