It was difficult to take good pictures as there were many people that would walk in front of the camera but I captured enough to show you what has been a celebrated occasion for 10 years. Of course, they didn't come last October as they wouldn't have been able to get around the debris. This year they came knowing there wasn't much left of the Coast as they knew it. In 2003, we drove over to Biloxi and it was really exciting to ride down Hwy 90 beside these old cars with the V8 engines.







There were many more cars that we didn't get pictures of but we decided we had enough and went back into the park and sat at a picnic table. William immediately said, "Give me $2.00 for a cold drink." It wasn't what he said but the demanding way he said it that made both Anita and myself say that we didn't have any money and go see if he and George could find water at the Red Cross booth! William came back without George and said they didn't have any. He didn't know where George was when we asked. We gave William money to go get the cold drinks for all of us. After about 20 minutes we went to find George and saw him walking proudly carrying a small cardboard box. He took us literally with what we said and he went to a booth and told them that his family was very hungry and didn't have any money to buy food. They gave him two hamburgers, two hot dogs and four cold drinks .... $20.00 worth of food. We almost fainted but instead we decided to go pay for the food. We heard a couple of other performers sing but hadn't known when we came that Charlie Daniels wouldn't be performing until 8:00 0'clock and decided to leave because ALL the people in the park would be swarming to the shuttles and we wouldn't get back home until probably after midnight.

It was a great day and I am proud of Pascagoula ... they were a great host to all of us!