George W. Bush: “This Tuesday marks the first anniversary of Katrina - one of the deadliest and most costly natural disasters in American…”

This is not mere nostalgia, it is the truest version of ourselves.

To you and the honored dead, our country is forever grateful.

Today, we remember your loss, we share your sorrow and we honor the men and women that you have loved so long and so well.

That is the America I know.