[POL SC 706] Immer gerade aus.

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Op zondag 18 september 2005 11:43 schreef Johan_de_With het volgende:
Marx1982. .

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Op zondag 18 september 2005 11:45 schreef Tafkahs het volgende:

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heb je je een beetje gedragen vannacht?

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"Their orders were to go and deliver water and parts and to come back," Commander Holdener said.

But as the two helicopters were heading back home, the crews picked up a radio transmission from the Coast Guard saying helicopters were needed near the University of New Orleans to help with rescue efforts, the two pilots said.

Out of range for direct radio communication with Pensacola, more than 100 miles to the east, the pilots said, they decided to respond and turned their helicopters around, diverting from their mission without getting permission from their home base. Within minutes, they were over New Orleans.

"We're not technically a search-and-rescue unit, but we're trained to do search and rescue," said Lieutenant Shand, a 17-year Navy veteran.

Flying over Biloxi and Gulfport and other areas of Mississippi, they could see rescue personnel on the ground, Lieutenant Udkow said, but he noticed that there were few rescue units around the flooded city of New Orleans, on the ground or in the air. "It was shocking," he said.

Seeing people on the roofs of houses waving to him, Lieutenant Udkow headed in their direction. Hovering over power lines, his crew dropped a basket to pick up two residents at a time. He took them to Lakefront Airport, where local emergency medical teams had established a makeshift medical center.

Meanwhile, Lieutenant Shand landed his helicopter on the roof of an apartment building, where more than a dozen people were marooned. Women and children were loaded first aboard the helicopter and ferried to the airport, he said.

Returning to pick up the rest, the crew learned that two blind residents had not been able to climb up through the attic to the roof and were still in the building. Two crew members entered the darkened building to find the men, and led them to the roof and into the helicopter, Lieutenant Shand said.

Recalling the rescues in an interview, he became so emotional that he had to stop and compose himself. At one point, he said, he executed a tricky landing at a highway overpass, where more than 35 people were marooned.

Lieutenant Udkow said that he saw few other rescue helicopters in New Orleans that day. The toughest part, he said, was seeing so many people imploring him to pick them up and having to leave some.

"I would be looking at a family of two on one roof and maybe a family of six on another roof, and I would have to make a decision who to rescue," he said. "It wasn't easy."

While refueling at a Coast Guard landing pad in early evening, Lieutenant Udkow said, he called Pensacola and received permission to continue rescues that evening. According to the pilots and other military officials, they rescued 110 people.

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PENSACOLA, Fla., Sept. 6 - Two Navy helicopter pilots and their crews returned from New Orleans on Aug. 30 expecting to be greeted as lifesavers after ferrying more than 100 hurricane victims to safety.

Instead, their superiors chided the pilots, Lt. David Shand and Lt. Matt Udkow, at a meeting the next morning for rescuing civilians when their assignment that day had been to deliver food and water to military installations along the Gulf Coast.

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Op zondag 18 september 2005 05:32 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Als ik nu zou schrijven, wat zou het dan worden?

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Deutschland, Deutschland über alles

Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt,
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
Brüderlich zusammenhält,
Von der Maas bis an die Memel,
Von der Etsch bis an den Belt -

|: Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt. :|

2. Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue,
Deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang
Sollen in der Welt behalten
Ihren alten schönen Klang,
Uns zu edler Tat begeistern
Unser ganzes Leben lang.
|: Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue,
Deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang. :|

3. Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Für das deutsche Vaterland!
Danach laßt uns alle streben
Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand!
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Sind des Glückes Unterpfand.
|: Blüh' im Glanze dieses Glückes,
Blühe, deutsches Vaterland. :|

(4. Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Und im Unglück nun erst recht.
Nur im Unglück kann die Liebe
Zeigen, ob sie stark und echt.
Und so soll es weiterklingen
Von Geschlechte zu Geschlecht:
|: Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Und im Unglück nun erst recht. :| )

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Op zondag 18 september 2005 12:07 schreef Tafkahs het volgende:
nieuwe visie? Bite my shiny metal ass! Dat is de beproefde Balkenende toestand die het opbouwen van de muur definitief onmogelijk maakt

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Op zondag 18 september 2005 12:06 schreef MrX1982 het volgende:
Lekker ding die Angela Merkel

Planet.nl

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Maar toch moet ze winnen.

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Op zondag 18 september 2005 12:11 schreef pberends het volgende:
Nee, Schroder is lekker.

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Op zondag 18 september 2005 12:10 schreef Drugshond het volgende:

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Is Merkel trouwens pro Europa ?!....

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Op zondag 18 september 2005 12:19 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Als over tien jaar Irakese terroristen een treinstation opblazen, vraag je dan niet af hoe dit toch heeft kunnen gebeuren. Goed?

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Op zondag 18 september 2005 12:13 schreef MrX1982 het volgende:

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Een vent is sowieso niet lekker

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Op zondag 18 september 2005 12:05 schreef Drugshond het volgende:
Als Schroder het weer wordt, dan is Deutschland nog verder van huis.
Vele noodzakelijke veranderingen in het sociaal bestel blijven dan weer achterwege.

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Op zondag 18 september 2005 12:20 schreef pberends het volgende:
Uit mijn topic bleek dat mannen liever Brad Pitt pijpen dan een lelijk wijf neuken.

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Op zondag 18 september 2005 12:20 schreef Johan_de_With het volgende:

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Schuld van Amerika.