Sep 11 2008
New Orleans Commemorates September 11 With Blood Drive
It’s called the Battle of the Badges. This Battle is really a friendly competition between the firefighters and the police to see who can get the most people to donate plasma. The drive is on the corner of Howard and Barronne and will continue until 2 or 3 this afternoon.As of this posting, the firefighters are ahead. The general feeling is that our firefighters get dumped on the most of all our first responders. They get left out of pay raises, haven’t had fire stations rebuilt in a timely manner, and had the crappiest evacuation during the last storm.
Still, I have to root for the New Orleans Police. My husband is halfway through the application process to become a police recruit, so I’d better pull for them!
Edited to add the Results: The Fire Department won, for the third year in a row!
