According to the
AP, the California National Guard has reported that Edgar Hollingsworth died Saturday. He will be buried today.
Edgar Hollingsworth, an Army veteran of the Korean War, died Saturday at a New Orleans area hospital, Air Force Capt. Brenda Hendrickson of the California National Guard told The Associated Press by phone from Louisiana. He had been found four days earlier buried under a pile of rubble.
Hollingsworth is scheduled to be buried at 2 p.m. Tuesday with military honors at the Port Hudson National Cemetery, 10 miles north of Baton Rouge.
At the request of his wife, Lillian, military personnel and other authorities who helped rescue him will serve as pallbearers, along with his son, Wesley, the California National Guard said in a statement.
What the camera captured in the photo, diaried by
RobertInWisconsin, saddened many of us beyond words:
Most of us were angered beyond words as well at FEMA's continued disregard for life:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency had issued orders to rescue workers not to enter Katrina-ravaged homes unless they heard the cries of survivors. However, a National Guard team disobeyed orders after seeing Hollingsworth's foot protruding from the rubble of a home.
The guard team bashed open the door and found Hollingsworth unconscious and emaciated. Rescue workers immediately gave him saline solution through an IV and rushed him to a local hospital.
Like many I was hoping to hear positive things about Mr. Hollingsworth's condition...if nothing else, his family seems to have found comfort in the humanitarian acts taken by the men who found him. His wife and daughter were at his side when he died.