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CarolinaMtnGator (184.39.187.40) on 1/12/2012 - 2:13 p.m. says: ( 231 views , 9 likes )

"RE: Haiti, two years after the January 2010 earthquake"

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I have been a lurker here for years.  This is by far the best group around.  This subject is

close to my heart, because I lost a son in the Hotel Montana two years ago today.

He was a Gator civil engineer (PE) working for USAID on a sustainable tourism project.

There are ways to sidestep the garbage that is going on and get more direct action.

Our family established a fund in the Civil Engineering Dept. in the College of Engineering.

A portion of this fund will be used to build some houses for Haitians in conjunction with

groups affiliated with UF.  (Brendan was returning to UF to get his Phd in Civil Engineering.)

We are researching foundations to pair up with and with UF.  

Also, just to show how strange things happen, my son and another Gator engineer from Winter Park,

were just down the hall from each other, but didn't know one another.  They were some of the last found

and they were returned to the US together on the same US Air Force flight to Dover AFB.

As an old Gator whose family is a whole nest of them, "Go Gators."  

Lastly, my thoughts go out to ssimelo and his family. 

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