20-Dec-08 12:00 PM  CST  

From the Editor 

As I write these words, just a few days after our snowfall, only four years since the last time it snowed here, Hurricane Ike seems to me but a distant memory. I hope you came through the hurricane okay and didn’t have to go without power for too long. Mine was out for about seven-and-a-half days. I was entirely incommunicado for the whole first weekend. I took advantage of this rare opportunity to take care of only myself. The biggest downside was the news radio station I relied on, which followed almost all of its announcements with “For more information, go to our website.” I kept wondering if everybody else in Houston knew something I didn’t.

I was hoping to spend more of this particular outing of “From the Editor” discussing my lessons from the hurricane. However, I need to use this space to give some sad data. This issue of the DRUM, which is coming out in online format only, is the last issue for a year. We are going on hiatus as part of the financial issues our community is facing right now.

Of course, it is not just the Houston Warrior community that is struggling. A glance at the newspaper on any day will reveal some new setback. Lots of folks and organizations are probably looking for your help financially right now; I know they are looking for mine. I encourage you, especially at this time of year, to do what you can for others. And please keep our Warrior community in mind as well; do what you can to be present for it, both physically and financially.

I believe it appropriate, as we approach this hiatus, to leave you with an article by Sonny Elliott, assisted by many of those who were around during our early days. The article recounts the early days of our community. I was excited just reading it. I could not fit the entire article into the issue because of its length; the whole article is available separately on the website.

As for the DRUM, it is temporarily down but not out. I am confident it will return, bigger and better than ever, at a future date. So please stockpile those articles for me because I will be back asking for them once we are up and running again. If you have sent me an article that I was not able to fit into this issue, please be aware that I am holding it, with the goal of including it in our next issue.

In the meantime, have a great holiday season and I look forward to seeing you around the campus.

 

Source: Mike L.

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