tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510012.post112647494527508493..comments2007-08-14T13:31:23.702-04:00Berniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10437645325900027261noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510012.post-76189088325065624752007-08-14T13:22:00.000-04:002007-08-14T13:22:00.000-04:00Hi My Name is Curtis Lyons creator of Hurricane Katrina The game the government played.<BR/><BR/>And this is my thoughts, It has been almost two years since Katrina hit and our government has played nothing more than a blame game, Thats why we created the boardgame and online game will be on our website soon, I have watched so many of my family and friends suffer and do without because of the U.S. Government city state and federal. Its sad to say but the storm didn't kill most of the victims, our governemnt and its process.....This game we hope show the world , that we need to be ready as families, because our government is not ready for such disaster's natural or man made.<BR/><BR/>They are many who think this game is to hard, but its facts, no different than a book at the book store,,,,,This game is our Families story, and I hope people read it, or rather play it.<BR/><BR/>www.KatrinaBead.com<BR/><BR/>My family lost everything in Katrina and our home is in forclosure set to be sold Feb 6, 2007 at sheriff sale, I have a right to make this game and let the world know what we have lost .<BR/><BR/>God bless everyone affected by Katrina<BR/><BR/>until your in our shoes, you don't understand.....but this game put you in our shoes<BR/><BR/>Thats our hope, learn from the game not another disater<BR/><BR/>feel free to send your comments to me at <BR/>curtisblyons@yahoo.com<BR/><BR/><BR/>curtis lyons<BR/>www.katrinabead.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510012.post-1126734857206602442005-09-14T17:54:00.000-04:002005-09-14T17:54:00.000-04:00A co-worker told me that her three year old grandson would build towers out of building blocks and then knock them over with his toy airplane.<BR/><BR/>Here was a child processing what he saw on TV.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510012.post-1126732832360163572005-09-14T17:20:00.000-04:002005-09-14T17:20:00.000-04:00Current studies of the development of language indicate that events that are depicted to small children on television or via another media are experienced and recorded very differently than events that are part of a child's direct reality. I'd never expect a 9/11 game because it was something that was depicted to the majority of children involved in an abstract fashion (from the television) not as something they directly experienced. After the Challenger explosion in the 1980s, a series of jokes about the disaster began to be frequently told for some time afterwards. A better event, perhaps, to study the direct impact of play in the analysis of disasterous events would be to look at the results of school shootings on young children.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510012.post-1126572140250857672005-09-12T20:42:00.000-04:002005-09-12T20:42:00.000-04:00I am not aware of any 9/11 games to this date.<BR/>Nor am I aware of Auschwitz games or other such topics.<BR/>Perhaps some things are too painful.<BR/>Or is it that we just aren't playful enough?<BR/>Perhaps, as Bernie suggests, play doesn't cover up the pain.<BR/>Rather pain is when we forget how to play, that play is the essence and (emotional) pain is an adult way to deal with a forgetfulness to play.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com