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Via the NYT (registration required, this link will age into blankness...)Turned Away by the Guard, They Bluffed Their Way In - New York Times

"Watching the horror unfold on live television, David Hankla and his friends at Duke University felt angry and bewildered.

"It made no sense whatsoever that reporters were getting in and out of New Orleans, but the National Guard couldn't remove those people from the convention center," said Mr. Hankla, 20, a sophomore. "All we knew was that we were sick of being armchair humanitarians and that we intended to help get people out...

So he and two dorm mates, Sonny Byrd and Hans Buder, set out in Mr. Byrd's Hyundai sedan for a road trip and rescue mission...

We felt pretty satisfied that we got involved,' Mr. Hankla said. 'But we all kept talking about how it was possible that three kids in a two-wheel-drive Hyundai were able to move people out of the city and the National Guard wasn't.' "

I had a good giggle to learn they got into the area by copying a press pass at Kinkos. Ingenuity is a key disaster response quality.

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