This will no doubt end up being a book-length document, but that's what we need.  A textual timeline accompanied with illustratory pictures such as those already plucked and pinned in icerat's diary here, and places for people to link in the incredible and heartbreaking and powerful first-person reports that we've already seen and that will no doubt start to come in much faster once survivors are past the initial shock of displacement and separation from loved ones.

This horrible tragedy must be properly chronicled out of respect for the dead and commitment to the future of the survivors.

I am holding onto the shred of hope that perhaps, just maybe, the long-term future for some of these families may turn out to be a little brighter than the future they'd face had the world's attention never been turned upon them.  Individual faces put onto the disaster, like the angry but effective young man forcefully helping unload supplies from the helicopter, or the four young men carrying a fainted woman from the crowd at the Superdome, or the black woman screaming for aid for an elderly white woman in a hospital gown...

I want to find these people individually and personally do something, anything for them.  Just to thank them.  Just to apologize that collectively we failed them and to try to make some kind of amends for the lifelong misfortune that condemned them to the Superdome and the Convention Centre in the first place, and for the misery they have endured in the last week.

Include the National Weather Service forecasts, which were apocalyptic, but precisely correct.

Any president who ignored such forecasts, as Bush did, should removed from office.  He had PLENTY OF WARNING, but chose to turn his back.