1.0 link 28173 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-feeney/courage-fortitude-and-a-l_b_28173.html NEW ORLEANS - On any given weekend, my friend Mark Schleifstein can be found mowing the lawn in front of his ruined and gutted home in the Lakeview section of New Orleans. Even now, a year later, the brown ring around his yellow split-level still shows where the flood waters reached the second floor. The houses on each side of his are blighted, decrepit, the inner turmoil of the city reflected in the snarling weeds and grass-gone wild that reach...

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