This article details the experiences of Peruvians Cynthia Canepa and Luis Alberto Ponce and how hurricane Katrina impacted thier lifes. Both the original Spanish article and the English translation are included.

Memorandum of Meeting with Keesler Medical Center Community Team to discuss recommended changes to the medical center at Keesler Air Force Base. Includes Community Presentation.

Attachment to August 6, 2005 Memorandum of Meeting regarding Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi. Includes: Responses to Requests for Additional Data Regarding Keesler Medical Center; Rep. Gene Taylor Analysis of Cost and Savings Estimates for Recommendation to Disestablish Inpatient Services at Keesler; Minutes of the Medica.1 Joint Cross-Service Group Meetings of July 2,2004 and January 4,2005; Site Visit Reports, Minutes, and Recommendations from the CARES Commission Regarding Veterans Affairs Medical Facilities in Biloxi and Gulfport and Arrangements with Keesler Medical Center; Articles from the New England Journal of Medicine and from MSNBC Regarding Medical Personnel and Training Needs for Wartime; Rep. Gene Taylor Analysis of Cost and Savings Estimates for Recommendation to Close Naval Station Pascagoula; Department of Defense Report: Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support, June 2005; March 9,2005 Testimony of Gen. Bantz J. Craddock, Commander of U.S. Southern Command.

Memorandum of meeting with Mississippi Senator Trent Lott regarding the BRAC 2005 recommendations for bases in Mississippi.

Interview with Jerell E. Crow. He entered the Coast Guard in 1940 and trained in Florida and New York City. He served aboard a Landing Ship, Tank (LST) when those ships were first introduced. He traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Neville Island Shipyard operated by the Dravo Corporation as part of a crew that brought an LST down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. From there, the crew practiced operations at Biloxi, Mississippi. Eventually, Crow travelled to San Diego aboard the LST through the Panama Canal. From there, he went to Guadalcanal and unloaded tanks. Eventually, his ship was hit at Saipan and he was wounded. He also served aboard an LST during the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Afterwards, Crow's LST was present in Tokyo Bay for the surrender. He visited Hiroshima while on occupation duty after the atomic bomb was dropped. Eventually, his LST made its way back to San Francisco where he was discharged.

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pvt. Charles L. Chennault, son of Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, commander of the "Flying Tigers," the American volunteer Group in China embodied in the U.S. army air forces July 4, looks into the teeth of a "Tiger Shark" famous emblem of his father's daredevil command, at Keesler filed near Biloxi, Miss."

Letter from George Thatcher to Dr. Lanny Hall to thank him for the material he sent him regarding his grandfather, Dr. George Oscar Thatcher. George Thatcher encloses several photos in return and describes them in this correspondence.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The flight came during the governor's visit to the Oklahoma Air Guard's training exercise in Gulfport, Miss."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Tommy Gray, Seminole, senior University of Oklahoma football player, is now on his third trip to the Sooners' training camp at Biloxi, Miss., and knows his way around the Buena Vista hotel, OU's Biloxi home."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A man who began his aviation career by making airplane models out of baseball bats - "because they were just right for the fuselage" - today is the driving force behind some 1,500 state pilots and airmen."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Gomer Jones, left, and OU assistant, shivers in a sweat jersey."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Coach Bill Jennings, center talks it over with Nute Trotter, left and Wade Walker, right at practice session at Biloxi High."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Don't worry about the Sooner football secrets getting out at Biloxi where the Oklahoma eleven is training. Back on the job is that talented spycatcher of last year, Dr. C. B. McDonald, Oklahoma City dentist. It was McDonald who unmasked an LSU snooper last year and he's in Biloxi now with the advance guard of Sooner fans."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City athletic fans for some time have been calling Dr. C. B. McDonald "coach" as result of his keen interest in the University of Oklahoma football team. Here he is shown going through one of his pet plays with a group of OU gridmen during a workout in Biloxi, Miss. From left are Gene Heape, Bill Price, Harold "Bud" Hoofnagle, McDonald, Jack Lockett, Dick Heatly and Bert Clark. OU plays LSU in the Sugar Bowl Monday."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The famous "spy photo" - despite appearnaces, Dr. C. B. McDonald is not rearing back to punch (LSU fan and spy) "Piggy" Barnes ... he has just snatched a handkerchief from Barnes' face. (Barnes was taking photos of OU Sooner football practice in Biloxi, Miss., before Sugar Bowl game with LSU)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Richard V. Smith and her son, Preston, are safe in Oklahoma City now, but two weeks ago their home was in the area hit by Hurricane Camille."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, chairman of the 36th."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All of a football player's time training for the Sugar bowl is not sweat and tears. Sooner halfback Frank Silva and his pretty wife at the Biloxi boat harbor."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The wife of a slain OKC World War II hero said Saturday she "didn't mean to kill him - just scare him." Mrs. Marie Underwood is being held in a Biloxi, Miss., jail, pending investigation into the murder of her husband, Sgt. Dave Underwood, who was shot to death with a.22 rifle while the couple argued in their trailer home near the local air force base where he was stationed. The couple had been married almost 13 years, but neighbors said they often quarreled, and Mrs. Underwood had accused her husband of excessive drinking and abuse. He was shot after returning home from a local bar. Underwood's family members are rallying around Marie, and are offering support, arranging for bond as well as offering to bring her back to OKC from Biloxi."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Two participants from Oklahoma to the Tulane University-sponsored Southern Assembly now in session at Biloxi, Miss., are Willis J. Wheat, assistant dean of the school of business, Oklahoma City Univ. (left) , and H. V. Thornton, director of govt. research bureau at Univ. of Oklahoma, right. Center is C. Read Granberry, executive director of the Texas Legislative Council, Austin, discussion chair."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Drew Johnson the Muscular Dystrophy Association's 1991 National Poster Child, wishes Rachel Childers of Oklahoma City, Miss Oklahoma TEEN USA, good luck as she vies for the title of Miss Teen USA."

Article presenting Frank Tipler's concepts and arguments, and highlighting the value of his orientation for near-death studies. Tipler's work takes the steam out of scientific rejection of religious, spiritual, or noetic phenomena, and makes it possible to accept these phenomena while maintaining a strictly scientific posture.

Article discussing Viktor Frankl's logotherapy, which resolves potential conflicting sources of meaning by the application of the Laws of Dimensional Ontology, which validate apparently conflicting viewpoints. The application of these laws to the interpretation of near-death experiences (NDEs) resolves the conflict between the orthodox scientific view of NDEs as hallucination and the experiential view of them as experiences of the afterlife to come.

Newspaper clipping of a section of the May 1990 issue of The Miami Herald. Articles about the WASPs service in World War 2, why Maria Muniz joined the Marine Corps, two nurses who served in the Vietnam War, and more are included.