Bugg Stories vol. 11

the tornado hit downtown in east nashville three years ago was the inspiration for sheldon curry to become a red cross volunteer he's seen plenty of devastation in the nearly tin disasters where he's worked as a red cross specialist since then the curry says nothing measures up to the devastation he seen now as a volunteer in new york it's horrifying it's it's an awesome sight in in that it deals with all and not that i had a wonderful kind of all of the grand canyon but you see it for the first time ended take your breath away because them the magnitude and the physical size of the bomb is something that pictures on tv or in the newspaper clip we're preparing for kerry works with family directly affected by the collapse of the world trade center towers he says new yorkers have been strong and supported i get off with nine people applaud i have had people stop ministry and thank me for being here still some of them are somewhat number by this there's a lot of anger and some fear but mostly resignation to

me or back to herself and to debate and nurture her wound in and to deter them to go on with their lives schilling carries brother is a naval operations officer at the pentagon and was in that building when another commercial airliner had it he was crushed up but otherwise is ok week ago sheldon curry left nashville to bump here in new york as a red cross disaster specialists curry has spent the last several days working in a family assistance center near the pit that's what recovery workers had dug the hole and surrounding rubble left by the collapse of the world trade center towers curry says new yorkers have a fragile psyche now he saw evidence of that tuesday as demolition crews imploded two more buildings of the trade center complex prior to the explosion police handed out fliers to alert local residents and workers i was thrilled that they did and did such a good job of informing people what

was that it happened because i think he had there been an explosion of any sort out without prior notice people would panic others fear mostly i think from the internet that discovers over the city and i think it will be that way for a while perry will check in with wpln from time to time during his assignment in new york the pope new york mayor rudolph giuliani says clean up from the collapse of the world trade center towers will take months possibly even a year nationally and shelling curry kimberly that he's american red cross disaster specialist bond hearing in new york knightley as they dismantle what's left of the existing structure it out so we see the bad trucks with huge steel beams in don't cook upon dump truck

of material because now it's a slow process and there's no way to speed the process up is just a monumental task someone compared it to trying to move the rocky mountains with a peace plan sheldon kerry says frustration is beginning to grow for those having to stand in line for hours at a time for assistance still he says the millions of dollars donated to organizations like the red cross is getting their families the slowly the barbaric is the fact that we're dealing with thousands and thousands of people as opposed to hundreds of people in and other gestures so tinkering works directly with families affected by the world trade center collapse fb for sharon curry each day begins with the breathing curry is a red cross disaster response specialists working with families

directly affected by the world trade center collapse each morning he finds out about the family's he will see that day i listen to stories in and they're trying to help as appropriately can and encouragement when i go with them and just try to be as much of a fee to walk through what they're walking through with them although i can't take their pain away sometimes it helps to have someone to share with kerry says family service volunteers are starting to burn out from their emotionally charged work the red cross's cut their twelve hour days back to eight hours fb in new york the red cross family service specialist have cut back from twelve to eight hour days because of the emotional fatigue of working with families directly affected by the world trade

center collapse nationally as sheldon kerr is a red cross volunteer in new york he says its the most difficult work he's ever done kerry says he and other specialists who work about a block from the trade center site purposely stopped keeping up with the news i haven't seen a newspaper since i got here and i don't watch television or occasionally listen to a classical music they hear that time but my focus is so intent on these individuals and how i can best serve them that if i have too much noise from the rest the world going on inside me if it can divert my i pinch i do know on occasion what's happening and decide and sometimes that can take over the focus on what we could carry has been asked to extend his servicing york that hasn't made a decision about that yet

fb amongst all the human suffering at the world trade center clean up and recovery site in new york there's also laughter nashville's sheldon curry is they're working as a red cross volunteer and family services intel has reminded me of the year the old mash tv show and some of the laughter is a little darker and that's how they ate get through some of the time that they get through what other places we find some lectures with some of the children either of books were missing more families and depending on the age of the child they sometimes understand that that something horrible has happened and i want to talk about that and talk about how they're feeling about it you want to know if we can play checkers or seven hours until the lack of things that they would normally live there and many times that

much needed music to my ears seldom curry is a red cross volunteer working in new york fb in new york red cross volunteers are finding people coming up from behind closed doors for the first time since september eleventh less filling and sheldon curry is working with people affected by the world trade center collapse yesterday i spent time with a woman who was directly involved in almost every everything that happened from a thirty on a tuesday morning through a hospital stay and once she was released from the hospital went to her apartment and close the windows and close the curtains and had not been upset and mostly because she was just afraid and just afraid and their situation as a monumental challenge kerry says he's positive there are many many more people just like her

fb in new york around still gather at the world trade center cleanup site to steer and snap photos ash billion children currie is a red cross volunteer work about a block from the site people traveling from i'm from long distances just to walk the circle around the site and the no really surreptitiously poitier in cuts that few shots of same doom scammers confiscated by authorities and held until video people can explain what they're going to get an edge there still real nervous about people taking pictures over there and for a lot of many many good reasons kerry says there are two types of the crowds gathering at the site the curious and those from lower manhattan who are coming back to greek

fb american red cross volunteers in new york are training the next wave of volunteers ash billion but curry says even this is difficult because he's quote protective of the family's he's worked with it becomes almost like a parental relationship in the sense that you want to protect those people who have been through so much and you feel a responsibility to them to try to get them down the road that to the best of your ability and help them cope with the nightmare that they'll live through and it's you wanna make sure that whoever comes after you feel that same sense of responsibility kerry's advice to incoming family services volunteers is simple just be quiet and listen many times we found that that is a lot of what they need is just to have someone in his time they are not

impinging are they might feel they were with a friend or family someone whose sole purpose is to pay attention to them and to listen to their story and home an event that involves thousands and thousands of stories for most folks that tuesday was just a regular in the music business which in normal b flat tuesday and it had altered the history of the planet that scary as an american red cross volunteer serving in new york the pay red cross volunteers sheldon curry flies back to nashville today he's been working with families affected by the world trade center collapse during his three weeks in new york kerry has for solace repeatedly turned to a book of poetry by muslim poet how she's one point in particular stands out it's called out of this mess could be humble not

have to appear to be so stingy fall prey to be honest strong kind and tour so that the beloved one is never a miscarriage as a cruel great miser i know you have a hundred complex cases against god in court but never mind wayfarer let's just get out of this mess and pray to be loving and humble so that the eternal friend will be forced to reveal himself so very very near and sheldon curry