Thank you, Martin (and your hard-working crew, as well) ... ya'll did an outstanding job of putting together your reports from Mississippi/Alabama/Louisiana -- especially the reports from Mississippi :-) !!! I could hardly wait every day to read everyone's blogs -- I felt as if I was right there with you on your journey, and I enjoyed getting to know each of you better through your writings on the DailyNightly. It was fun reading each day's story unfold in your blogs, which made Martin's heart-tugging stories seem even more personal as they came to life on my television screen, as only Martin can tell a story with his compassionate brand of reporting, each evening during the Nightly News.

Thanks again so much ... I'm looking forward to seeing more of your fine reports from the Gulf Coast.

I just got back to Seattle this week after working in public information in hard-hit Jackson County, Miss. for a couple of weeks, the same area that Martin traveled though on Tuesday. I, too, am so glad you guys took this road trip, underscoring that this disaster is not over by any means. The world seems to have moved on to the next big thing, as it must I suppose, in some ways, but not entirely. Continue to remind us, please, that the Gulf Coast needs our attention and dollars.

I have a lot of moments that stand out from my trip to the Gulf, but there's one I remember in particular. I was on a road staring at a big, beautiful house near Fontainebleau, Mississippi. It had been flattened except for a roof sitting neatly on top of the rubble. Then I noticed all this shiney ribbon blowing around in the trees and scattered across the ground. It looked like a party had come and gone and then I realized it was video tape, yards and yards of it -- maybe the only record of a kid's recital, someone's wedding, a birth. It was chilling, these intimate human memories flung about by an indifferent storm; no match except in the recovery. That's where we can prevail.

I was so thrilled to see someone cover some of the sections of this country that were so devested by Katrina. We have all seen New Orleans and some of the other larger cities and towns affected but that was such a small part of the true devestation. I hope you will continue to bring us other places both beautiful and proud because of their people. There are so many stories that still need to be told and many of us that still want to here them.