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Youth Still Working Through Katrina Trauma
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(CBS) Four years after Hurricane Katrina, survivors will tell you that the events the day - and the days after - were both horrifying and haunting.

"They were walking on dead bodies and we actually saw a man who was holding his daughter in his hand," said Dorreal Fluker. "She just died in his hand. It made me feel bad and I started crying. I started to worry about my little sisters and brothers."

"How does a young person process that kind of stuff - seeing things like that?" asked CBS News correspondent Byron Pitts.

"At the time, I didn't want to process it," Dorreal said.

But for these New Orleans high school students, the lingering scar of Hurricane Katrina isn't what happened four years ago, it's what hasn't happened four years later.

"I lived in the Ninth Ward," said Victor Carter, a senior at the New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School. "I have to go to school and I travel seven miles every day and see that the Ninth Ward is still the same."

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more...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/28/eveningnews/main5272079.shtml?tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea

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