Tracy Perkins
Tracy Perkins
Tracy E. Perkinsis a Sergeant First Classin the U.S. Army...
kept
I think he is the one thing that kept us alive. We wanted to get to him.
wish
I wouldn't wish this on no one. Not what we went through there.
above airline beyond classic efforts modern quite running
What we're really doing is running a modern airline with classic airplanes. Our maintenance efforts have to go well above and beyond what an airline with new airplanes has to do. It's quite a challenge.
babies dying front paper toilet
Toilet paper all over the floor. Bodies. Babies dying in front of your face,
money wheels
Everybody's not fortunate. Not everybody's got money or wheels to do anything, to get out.
buses cut kept laid minute night stop thinking walking watched
All night I laid on that ground, in stitches, and watched buses passing. We'd get up thinking they were for us, but they just kept on going. In my condition, I couldn't even walk. Every minute I had to stop walking because the cut was burning.
I don't want to go back to one of those shelters. I've had enough of shelters. I don't want to live like that anymore.
ask movement officer police question ready shoot
You couldn't even get to a police officer to ask them a question because it was like they were ready to shoot you with any movement you made.