ABC: Groups want Guard to stay
May 13, 2008
Source: ABC News
The Holy Cross Neighborhood Association is joining with other anti-crime organizations like Citizens for 1 Greater New Orleans and Silence is Violence to petition Governor Bobby Jindal to keep the National Guard as is.
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The Ninth Ward is slowly rebuilding. But Chambliss says that rebuilding and growth may stop if the National Guard troops are taken out. Crime may come back. He says, "Theft, burglary, some assaults and a number of murders have happened."
Imagine using the National Guard for what it was intended to do — help the states in crises — instead of as a an extension of our overseas war effort. What a concept.
