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...truth is, New Orleans, if hit, will flood. How badly depends on the hurricane. In his book The Storm (Viking; 320 pages), out this week, Louisiana State University researcher Ivor van Heerden argues that Katrina wasn't the mythical Big One, a frightening conclusion for a city entering a new hurricane season. The storm made landfall east of New Orleans as a fast-moving Category 3, he notes, but the winds that lashed the city--weakened by wetlands and miles of subdivisions--registered only as a Category 1. Van Heerden, deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center in Baton Rouge...
...week at the National Museum of American History. Paul Boyce, a Pentagon spokesperson, pointed out that 40 members of the unit attended the premiere and the film was also screened at 22 military installations. "Every person in uniform we've spoken to has said that we've presented the truth," O'Neill says...
...That may well be true. But even some seasoned combat surgeons are wary to revisit the truth. ""I would encourage my family to watch. I have mixed feelings about watching it myself, because I already know what it's like," says Lieutenant Colonel Michael Eppinger, a cardiothoracic surgeon who also served at Balad in 2004 and 2005. "I'm very happy that I had the opportunity to go over there and take care of people. And I'll go back again when I get sent. But there are still things that I remember that bother...
...Still overall, Eppinger feels that the public exposure of combat trauma has implicit benefits. "It's worse if you don't show it," he says. "I'm all in favor of anything that tells the truth and lets people know what it's really like. It's better to have the knowledge before you sign up." Even if the people who were already over there might prefer to forget...
...jacket over his head and slouch through his perp walk. He called his own press conference. "You have all been told some fantastic lies," he declared, "and I look forward in watching them unravel in the weeks to come, as they already have in weeks past, and the truth will come out." His lawyer referred not to the victim, but "the false accuser," and released results of a polygraph supporting Evans' story...