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Read Archie Manning's letter to New Orleans

On August 29, 2005, 23 years after Archie Manning played his last game with the Saints, the Superdome was filled with the forgotten residents of New Orleans. With nowhere else to go, the poor, the sick, the elderly and the dead spent days in the water-logged Dome, the symbol of a nation's failure to rescue it's most vulnerable citizens from one of the deadliest natural disaster in its history.

Ten years later, on the decade anniversary of Katrina's landfall on New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a nonprofit called Evactueer.org has asked residents of the Crescent City to write love letters to their home as part of a fundraising campaign to build evacuation rally points.