The opening scene is an American flag. Members of the National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 186 Infantry found bits and pieces of Delgado Community College’s American flag scattered around its City Park Campus and the surrounding neighborhood following the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina. As the pieces were amassed, the guardsmen hoped somehow to reconstruct the flag and mount it on a board for display. The guardsmen presented the mounted flag to the college on September 21, 2005. It would not be the same flag that formerly flew intact over the campus, but it would symbolize the same American principles and values though ripped apart by the storm. The flag epitomizes something else. It has gaps and holes; its edges are shredded, and the threads do not seamlessly match as they once did but, what binds it is an invisible determination of individuals at Delgado who envisioned the college’s restoration following Katrina, no matter what it took. As the National Guard members did with the flag, these individuals would not allow the pieces of the college to disintegrate in the dirt and flood waters untended and uncared for. Through their courageous acts, they would bring back a treasured institution. They reminded us that if each of us brings the pieces and the skill we have to the center and work together, we too can rebuild what was once lost and torn apart.
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