New Orleans marks 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with solemn memorials, uplifting music
Jerome Williams Nola hugs his wife Ashley Williams along the floodwall of the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, during an event to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm's anniversary Friday with solemn memorials, uplifting music and a parade that honored the dead, the displaced and the determined survivors who endured and rebuilt.
Dignitaries and longtime residents gathered under gray skies at the memorial to Katrina's victims in a New Orleans cemetery where dozens who perished in the storm but were never identified or claimed are interred.
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