"That was sad. Those people didn’t have anywhere to live
and no food to eat and stuff. Some of them were even our age. Some
people couldn’t even find their parents. It makes me very
sad."
Source: Cruz Otero, a 7th-grade student at San
Diego's Montgomery Middle School, following a presentation by three
officers from NAS North Island. The officers shared with
with the students some of their experiences providing
humanitarian relief following both the Southeast Asia Tsunami and
Hurricane Katrina.