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I wish that I did not have this book published by my local newspaper, The Times-Picayune, in my library. I wish that it had never been made necessary.

Almost three years after Katrina and not a day goes by that I do not think with great sadness of the many lives lost all over New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. At the end of the book are thumbnail photos of some of the people who died in New Orleans with the title, "A Sampling Of Portraits Suggests The Vitality, The Variety, The Enormity Of Katrina's Human Toll." These photos of happy faces always bring tears to my eyes.

The staff of The Times-Picayune, won two Pulitzer prizes for their coverage of Katrina. "Awarded to the staff of The Times-Picayune for its courageous and aggressive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, overcoming desperate conditions facing the city and the newspaper."