Has anyone seen that defining Hurricaine Katrina photo?

[vanillasky]

Tanisha Blevin, 5, held the hand of fellow Hurricane Katrina victim Nita LaGarde, 105, as they were evacuated Saturday from the New Orleans Convention Center, where thousands of refugees still remain.

This is one of my favorites. It depicts black and white, young and old, enduring the horrors of Katrina together, hand in hand.

Just saw a follow up on the 2 people in this photo, thought you might be interested!

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- When the TV is off and the only sounds in the neat, three-bedroom house come from the hum of the air conditioner and the gurgle of an aquarium, 89-year-old Nita LaGarde sometimes has to fight back tears as she falls asleep in her white wooden bed with clean linens.

"This is nice," she says.

The tears are not so much for what she lost, but for what she has found -- a new life and new, loving friends in Houston, a city she had never even visited until a month ago during the culmination of a hellish journey.

America met Mama Nita, as she is known, and 5-year-old Tanisha Belvin as they fled the horror of the New Orleans Convention Center in the days immediately following Hurricane Katrina.

A grim-looking LaGarde was seen sitting in a wheelchair, her withered white hand clasping Tanisha's tiny black hand, in a September 3 photograph taken by Eric Gay of the Associated Press. The photo of their rescue from the convention center was published on front pages around the nation, and the pair became a symbol of the disaster.

FULL STORY: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/07/katrina.nita.ap/index.html

 

[mysteriew]

Thank you so much for following up on this. It is nice to know they are being taken care of.