Katrina - Acts of Kindness

I'll guarntee you that there are hundreds of thousands of these acts of kindness being played out all accross America.

Dmitri Kachkov, a 35-year-old man who uses a wheelchair due to extreme physical disabilities, knows about hardship -- his family became refugees from Russia in 1997 and moved here.

When Katrina made them refugees again, they expected to sleep in their van. Just before the storm hit, Kachkov and his parents drove north and took refuge in a roadside truck stop.

Then a stranger -- Diana Cantello of Gramercy, Louisiana -- invited them to stay at her home.

"My mother cried at such unexpected hospitality," Kachkov said. They spent nine days and nights at Cantello's home, where a mother and her two children had also been invited to stay.

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Near the Kachkov home is Drago's Seafood Restaurant.

Since the storm raged more than a week ago, five employees of the upscale eatery have lived on the premises to protect it from looters who have destroyed businesses across the city.

Then on Monday the restaurant reopened, serving charred chicken on pasta with a Cajun marinara sauce and ice-cold water -- a rare luxury in this city in recent days.

The food was free to anyone who wanted it.

"We have decided that we will serve free food as long as our resources last, probably until we give away $20,000 of free food," said owner Klara Cvitanovich.

Cvitanovich, 66, who came here from Croatia in her youth, was also shipping food out to poor neighborhoods.

"I can honestly say I have lived the American dream, and now I have to give something back," she said.

That's what most Americans do.

And I've read somewhere that the reports of rapes and murders in the Superdome may not have occurred. Seems MSM were taking peoples word for it but the police have been unable to confirm them. Time will tell.

Don't expect to see such stories of American kindness from the BBC, they're too busy smearing Bush and America. On the BBC's website you'll find only one story that even tries to show some balance, but its an attempt at balancing the blame game and not about acts of kindness.
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