<p>I just spoke with my son again from Baton Rouge. The Tulane Emergerncy Medical Service (TEMS) is actively involved in triage and transport at the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, under the direction of FEMA. There are approximately 20 TEMS kids there, with their two ambulances, working in shifts around the clock!! </p>
<p>They are taking great pride in being perhaps the only fully functioning branch of Tulane. They are bursting with pride at the work they are doing, and love to hear the moral support they are hearing coming in through family and loved ones.</p>
<p>I have no doubt that these kids will among the first to go back and start to rebuild Tulane and NOLA when it is safe to do so. </p>
<p>Concerneddad, good luck to your son. He is going to have a more enriching experience than you can get in a school. I feel bad for people who have lost their lives, for people who have lost their homes, for people that have lost their businesses or jobs ...
students at Tulane will be fine.</p>
<p>I agree with dstark - the education your son is receiving in this situation will far outweigh any delay in getting back to the classroom. And, I think that goes for all Tulane kids. You should be very proud of your son CD, but then, I know you already were. :)</p>
<p>Concerneddad, please tell your son to share with his team the knowledge that **many<a href="Count%20the%20views%20on%20the%20related%20threads%20for%20a%20number!">/b</a> folks at College Confidential are thinking of them and rooting for them as they do their very demanding work. Please continue to keep us posted.
Thanks to you for your communications, and to your son for his work and attitude.</p>
<p>Thank you all. I will indeed pass on the good thoughts to the whole TEMS group. They are remarkable kids, not all of whom wish to go into medicine, but all have a deep desire to serve for the betterment of their fellow wo/man. I know the good thought will lift their spirits as the adrenalin wears off and the sick sick and injured continue to be flown.</p>
<p>I'm choked up just hearing this. Thanks for posting, concerneddad. You must be so proud of your S. I would hope my S would rise to the occasion in an emergency, but you KNOW yours will. Wow.</p>
<p>My son would like to be with yours, CD, and he's done what he can to get the staff at Tulane to see him as a potential help in the coming weeks. I would bet that getting to know your son last spring might have had a little bit to do with my son's response to what's happening now.</p>
<p>Please give him my deepest affectionate regards.</p>
<p>Congrats to you on raising such a wonderful young man! IF he is an example of what this generation is, then we have nothing to fear for the future of this country. We are concerned right now, because one of D's good friends was at Tulane, and she has been unable to reach her by cell. So, we think she is in Miss.</p>
<p>"Adversity doesn't build character. It reveals it." You must be bursting with pride. I would be. Just keep reminding him that he can't help anybody unless he takes care of himself,too. Sleep. Food. Fight some more.</p>
<p>curmudgeon: Exactly. He told me a few days ago that they live by the creedo of take care of yourself so you cam help others. I keep reminding him to put that ideal into practice!</p>
<p>Good, concerneddad. It will be O.K.. He will be fine. No better place to be for a kid with plans for a career helping others. He will find out a lot about himself, maybe some things he didn't know.:)</p>
<p>Curmudgeon is absolutely right. And if your son ends up taking a year off to help rebuild Tulane and NO, this may turn out to be the most valuable learning experience he is likely to get in or out of college.</p>
<p>A Tulane law professor has just this morning started a blog for use by students and family. Nothing really there yet, but it might prove to be of use to some of you in the future.</p>
<p>Oh, ConcernedDad - you must be so proud of your son! </p>
<p>My best wishes to him, and all of his friends, who are down there and doing tremendously good work. :) Reading your stories about him is one of those things that renews one's faith in human nature. </p>
<p>I say this only half-jokingly - but what do they need and can we send things to them? Medical supplies? Twinkies (which might be one and the same for teenage boys!)?</p>