Thoughts of Glory

The second day at the warehouse they did not have enough supplies to send out the trucks.  They asked for volunteers to go to a FEMA feeding station and help.  Several of us jumped at the chance. Chuck, Dinah, Lou Ann and I piled into the van and off we went to the feeding station in Beaumont.  The kitchen was being run by a group from Mandeville, LA and this was their first day to be cooking.  They had been up all night trying to get to there and get set up.



These men cooked two great meals that day and they were great fun to work with.  They set up two tables and we stationed ourselves on both sides of tables and filled the clam shells with the food in front of us and slid it down to the next station until it had each course and then someone closed it up and carried it to those handing them out to those in line.  We served up between 7-8 thousand lunches that day in about 3 hours.



We were supposed to go back to Kountze after lunch but we found out that they needed help for the dinner feeding so we took a rest while they cooked.  Chuck, Dinah and I laid back in the van and others made a bed of cardboard.



At 4:30 we started serving up again as the National Guard lined up a snake formation of cars.  They finally stopped the line at 7:30 after serving 10 thousand people shrimp creole, salad, roll, water and desert.  We ate and left for the shelter sunburned from our scalp to our wrist, but feeling we had helped make many people's lives a little better.