Hurricane Katrina: Survivors and Heroes

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Mark Morice

During the storm, "my buddy Beau looked at me, and he's not a very religious guy, and he said, 'Mark, I really think we ought to say a Hail Mary,' and I looked at him and I said, 'maybe we ought to have a Bloody Mary.'"

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