august 29 was when it occurred, septtmber 1 is when president bush had suupended signinged or -- ssgned an order suspending the jones act so that foreign vessels could come in and assist us in our time of need after hurricane katrina. over of days later this administration still has not done it. so i hear all the talk about we're doing absolutely everything we can, how about putting a signature on a suspension of the jones act. just do it 19 days like president bush did and you'll be able to have all this outside assistance come in. one of the things i've seen and this has been hard for me over the years, when somebody wants to come help me after i've had some family tragedy or something, i just don't like to accept -- i don't want anybody to put themselves out, but what we find out is, you have done something for somebody else, it blesses their heaat hen they get to do something nice for you. and you know, we have done some very nice things for so many countries as reflected in the ceeeteries all over europe and american soldiers that were been buried around the world, where they gave