Disaster Heroes Book Launch 

                                      .....A book that Louisianans can be proud of

Spirit of Louisiana at White House

Tuesday, 19 May 2015- 5PM-8:00 PM-The Decatur Street Fire Station-317 Decatur Street-New Orleans. 

Attendance is FREE-Music provided

New Orleans Fire Chief Tim McConnell will address audience 

Chief Tim McConnell will speak

FOUR heroes from Louisiana will attend: 

Ronnie Goldman

Bob & Fonda Walsh 

Riccardo Crespo

See the Spirit of Louisiana Fire Truck & Meet Author and emergency management expert Suzanne Bernier from Canada

From Disaster Heroes:

• Find out how five-year-old Evan Parness inspired his dad to marshal the efforts of NY firefighters to thank America for its spectacular help after 9/11 through disaster assistance rebuilding.
• How a speech by President George W. Bush on the remains of a 9/11 burned out fire engine at Ground Zero moved Ronnie Goldman to start an incredible campaign that united Louisiana and New York forever. 
• Discover the little-known story of Brandon Fisher & his team from Pennsylvania who worked around the clock to save the lives of 33 miners following the 2010 Chilean mine collapse.
• Read how US Airways Flight 1549 (aka The Miracle on the Hudson) pilot Chesley Sullenberger was lucky to have ferry boat captain Mohamed Gouda nearby to help save his stranded passengers and bring them safely to shore.
• Discover what great bosses really are-Bob & Fonda Walsh save 100 jobs after Katrina.
• Find out how gutsy Florida landscaper Scott Lewis risked his own life to save thousands of others after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Suzanne Bernier is CEO of SB Crisis Consulting and is an internationally-recognized emergency management consultant, instructor and speaker, who has helped governments and communities plan for and respond to disasters for nearly 20 years. Prior to her disaster management work, Suzanne was a news anchor and government press secretary, and was recently named Crisis Communications Consultant of the Year. Suzanne has also been recognized with the Amethyst Award for Outstanding Achievement on behalf of the government of Ontario for her involvement in responding to Canada’s ‘Ice Storm of the Century’ in 1998. Suzanne Bernier’s vast experience responding to emergencies, including Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy, inspired her new book, Disaster Heroes. @disasterheroes https://www.facebook.com/DisasterHeroes   
http://sbcrisisconsulting.com/  www.suzannebernier.com

When disaster strikes, heroes fight back

Disaster Heroes salutes them....

Suzanne Bernier-​Emergency Management expert writes moving account of unknown American & foreign heroes

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Taken for granted except during hurricanes, floods, terror attacks, tsunamis, tornadoes and wildfires, unnamed heroes step up to the plate and are energized by tragedy to do good. Initiative compels them to save lives, and selflessness moves them to draw deep into their reserves of courage and solidarity. Be it the 9/11 terror attacks, Hurricane Katrina, The Chilean Mine Disaster, earthquakes in Haiti or Japan, or US Airways Flight 1549  (aka The Miracle on the Hudson)  - heroes come out of nowhere to help people everywhere. Disasters bring great men & women to the forefront - Disaster Heroes by Suzanne Bernier recounts these and more incredible stories. 

Twelve great men and women, as well as a five-year-old boy, are the focus of this book by disaster management expert Suzanne Bernier. 

From Disaster Heroes:

• Find out how five-year-old Evan Parness inspired his dad to marshal 
  
  the efforts of NY firefighters to thank America for its spectacular help after 9/11 through disaster assistance rebuilding.
• How a speech by President George W. Bush on the remains of a 9/11 burned out fire engine at Ground Zero moved Ronnie Goldman to start an incredible campaign that united Louisiana and New York forever. 
• Discover the little-known story of Brandon Fisher & his team from Pennsylvania who worked around the clock to save the lives of 33 miners following the 2010 Chilean mine collapse.
• Read how US Airways Flight 1549 (aka The Miracle on the Hudson) pilot Chesley Sullenberger was lucky to have ferry boat captain Mohamed Gouda nearby to help save his stranded passengers and bring them safely to shore.
• Discover what great bosses really are-Bob & Fonda Walsh save 100 jobs after Katrina.
• Find out how gutsy Florida landscaper Scott Lewis risked his own life to save thousands of others after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Suzanne Bernier is CEO of SB Crisis Consulting and is an internationally-recognized emergency management consultant, instructor and speaker, who has helped governments and communities plan for and respond to disasters for nearly 20 years. Prior to her disaster management work, Suzanne was a news anchor and government press secretary, and was recently named Crisis Communications Consultant of the Year. Suzanne has also been recognized with the Amethyst Award for Outstanding Achievement on behalf of the government of Ontario for her involvement in responding to Canada’s ‘Ice Storm of the Century’ in 1998. Suzanne Bernier’s vast experience responding to emergencies, including Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy, inspired her new book, Disaster Heroes. @disasterheroes https://www.facebook.com/DisasterHeroes   

http://sbcrisisconsulting.com/  www.suzannebernier.com

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WHAT IF ​YOUR CHILD WERE KILLED TRAGICALLY?

..........would you be ready today to deal with a broken heart?

What if you had to smuggle out his remains
and people who should have cared were calculating & callous?

How would you deal with a God who seemingly now makes no sense?

Is your heart broken now?

From Brokenness to Wholeness GUEST: Gene Kiepura, is author of Back To Tonic, the tell-all, true life story, about his child's death in Mexico and the aftermath. 

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A CRISIS OF FAITH, NATIONS, AND CULTURES

A MAN MUST SMUGGLE HIS CREMATED SON 

OUT OF A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY

Members of a small church gathered together to pray for their youth leader and four boys who were about to embark on a mission trip to Mexico. Seventeen days later, all five of them were dead. Life painfully changed. After the horrific experience of recovering the bodies and evading a greedy American Embassy in Mexico, A father returns home to find little in the way of solace from the people he was counting on. 

Back to Tonic is that part of a blues music sequence when the rhythm gets back to its resolution. It is also the true story of a man whose teenage son Jake is tragically cut down with an extremely promising life ahead of him, while on a missionary trip to Mexico. A brutal head on collision that took the lives of six people. This is the story of a man of deep Christian faith who reads the bible passionately and whose faith begins at one level and has to deepen to reach new heights after the shocking pain and loss. 

The tragedy was bad enough just on the face of it; but Gene then had to deal with a corrupt US Embassy staff and scores of venal characters south of the border, who had no qualms about using a man's vulnerability at a terrible time to try and take advantage of him. Jake and the remains of the others had to be cremated and smuggled out of Mexico. It was only after the funeral back home that the journey to healing could begin... a journey instructive for all.

Back to Tonic author Gene Kiepura

Gene Kiepura, 

​("KA-PURR-AHH" ) ​

a retired railroad 

 ​machinist

 from Chicago is a husband for 41 years to his high school sweetheart Jan and father to three children; one of whom-Jacob Kiepura-passed away at only 14 years of age in a brutal head on collision, along with 

​four 

companions and an adult, during a much anticipated trip to Mexico. That death constituted a "before and after" watershed moment in his    

role as a father, husband to Jan Kiepura and man of faith confronted with the oft times seemingly illogical 

 

ways of human existence and behavior-including deaths that seem impossible to comprehend. His book "Back to Tonic" 

   

tells the story of Jacob, and the journey of his sisters and especially mother and father on the road to bereavement and acceptance. G

ene currently delivers lectures to church groups and other gatherings about his journey from brokennes to healing.

A STORY DECADES IN THE MAKING 

PLUG THE BOOK: http://www.amazon.com/Back-Tonic-Gene-Kiepura/dp/1939761166/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399853337&sr=8-1&keywords=back+to+tonic

WEBSITE: http://genekiepura.com/

TWITTER: @GKiepura

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When disaster strikes, heroes fight back

Disaster Heroes salutes them....

Suzanne Bernier- Canadian ​Emergency Management expert writes moving account of unknown American & foreign heroes

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Taken for granted except during hurricanes, floods, terror attacks, tsunamis, tornadoes and wildfires, unnamed heroes step up to the plate and are energized by tragedy to do good. Initiative compels them to save lives, and selflessness moves them to draw deep into their reserves of courage and solidarity. Be it the 9/11 terror attacks, Hurricane Katrina, The Chilean Mine Disaster, earthquakes in Haiti or Japan, or US Airways Flight 1549  (aka The Miracle on the Hudson)  - heroes come out of nowhere to help people everywhere. Disasters bring great men & women to the forefront - Disaster Heroes by Suzanne Bernier recounts these and more incredible stories. 

Twelve great men and women, as well as a five-year-old boy, are the focus of this book by disaster management expert Suzanne Bernier. 

From Disaster Heroes:

• Find out how five-year-old Evan Parness inspired his dad to marshal 
  
  the efforts of NY firefighters to thank America for its spectacular help after 9/11 through disaster assistance rebuilding.
• How a speech by President George W. Bush on the remains of a 9/11 burned out fire engine at Ground Zero moved Ronnie Goldman to start an incredible campaign that united Louisiana and New York forever. 
• Discover the little-known story of Brandon Fisher & his team from Pennsylvania who worked around the clock to save the lives of 33 miners following the 2010 Chilean mine collapse.
• Read how US Airways Flight 1549 (aka The Miracle on the Hudson) pilot Chesley Sullenberger was lucky to have ferry boat captain Mohamed Gouda nearby to help save his stranded passengers and bring them safely to shore.
• Discover what great bosses really are-Bob & Fonda Walsh save 100 jobs after Katrina.
• Find out how gutsy Florida landscaper Scott Lewis risked his own life to save thousands of others after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Suzanne Bernier is CEO of SB Crisis Consulting and is an internationally-recognized emergency management consultant, instructor and speaker, who has helped governments and communities plan for and respond to disasters for nearly 20 years. Prior to her disaster management work, Suzanne was a news anchor and government press secretary, and was recently named Crisis Communications Consultant of the Year. Suzanne has also been recognized with the Amethyst Award for Outstanding Achievement on behalf of the government of Ontario for her involvement in responding to Canada’s ‘Ice Storm of the Century’ in 1998. Suzanne Bernier’s vast experience responding to emergencies, including Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy, inspired her new book, Disaster Heroes. @disasterheroes https://www.facebook.com/DisasterHeroes   

http://sbcrisisconsulting.com/  www.suzannebernier.com

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When disaster strikes, heroes fight back

Disaster Heroes salutes them....

Suzanne Bernier- Canadian ​Emergency Management expert writes moving account of unknown American & foreign heroes

 INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY-OCASOMEDIA-305-396-2806

Taken for granted except during hurricanes, floods, terror attacks, tsunamis, tornadoes and wildfires, unnamed heroes step up to the plate and are energized by tragedy to do good. Initiative compels them to save lives, and selflessness moves them to draw deep into their reserves of courage and solidarity. Be it the 9/11 terror attacks, Hurricane Katrina, The Chilean Mine Disaster, earthquakes in Haiti or Japan, or US Airways Flight 1549  (aka The Miracle on the Hudson)  - heroes come out of nowhere to help people everywhere. Disasters bring great men & women to the forefront - Disaster Heroes by Suzanne Bernier recounts these and more incredible stories. 

Twelve great men and women, as well as a five-year-old boy, are the focus of this book by disaster management expert Suzanne Bernier. 

From Disaster Heroes:

• Find out how five-year-old Evan Parness inspired his dad to marshal 
  
  the efforts of NY firefighters to thank America for its spectacular help after 9/11 through disaster assistance rebuilding.
• How a speech by President George W. Bush on the remains of a 9/11 burned out fire engine at Ground Zero moved Ronnie Goldman to start an incredible campaign that united Louisiana and New York forever. 
• Discover the little-known story of Brandon Fisher & his team from Pennsylvania who worked around the clock to save the lives of 33 miners following the 2010 Chilean mine collapse.
• Read how US Airways Flight 1549 (aka The Miracle on the Hudson) pilot Chesley Sullenberger was lucky to have ferry boat captain Mohamed Gouda nearby to help save his stranded passengers and bring them safely to shore.
• Discover what great bosses really are-Bob & Fonda Walsh save 100 jobs after Katrina.
• Find out how gutsy Florida landscaper Scott Lewis risked his own life to save thousands of others after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Suzanne Bernier is CEO of SB Crisis Consulting and is an internationally-recognized emergency management consultant, instructor and speaker, who has helped governments and communities plan for and respond to disasters for nearly 20 years. Prior to her disaster management work, Suzanne was a news anchor and government press secretary, and was recently named Crisis Communications Consultant of the Year. Suzanne has also been recognized with the Amethyst Award for Outstanding Achievement on behalf of the government of Ontario for her involvement in responding to Canada’s ‘Ice Storm of the Century’ in 1998. Suzanne Bernier’s vast experience responding to emergencies, including Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy, inspired her new book, Disaster Heroes. @disasterheroes https://www.facebook.com/DisasterHeroes                                            

http://sbcrisisconsulting.com/  www.suzannebernier.com

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Why is this nun being denied a visa by the U.S. 
State Department?

            ........Nun was scheduled to meet with U.S. House & Senate

Sister Diana Momeka was denied visa

Why can representatives of the Iraqi Yazidis and Turkmen Shia religious communities get visas but not a representative of the Iraqi Christians?

No more double standards against Christians!!



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Why can´t Sister Diana Momeka be allowed to travel to the US? The Catholic religious who received a Doctorate in the US from Chicago’s Catholic Theological Union in 2012 had been granted a green card but it was lost after she fled from Qaraqosh when ISIS began to

advance. In so many words she was deemed a flight risk visitor as an "IDP" or internally displaced person. The Iraqi Sister was scheduled to meet to testify about the difficult conditions that Christians were undergoing in Iraq with U.S. Senate and House Foreign Relations Committees, the State Department, USAID, and several NGOs


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Based on an Article from Dr. Thomas Williams of Breitbart

All but one of the members of an Iraqi delegation of minority groups—comprising representatives of the Yazidi and Turkmen Shia religious communities—have been granted visas to come for official meetings in Washington. The lone member denied a visa was the only Iraqi Christian in the group, a Catholic nun.

Nina Shea, director of Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, reportedThursday that the U.S. State Department prevented a persecuted Iraqi Catholic nun named Sister Diana Momeka, “an internationally respected and leading representative of the Nineveh Christians who have been killed and deported by ISIS,” from coming to Washington to testify.

Sister Diana is a member of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena, a Catholic order of nuns that traces its presence in Iraq back to the thirteenth century.

The nun is uniquely qualified to testify to Islamic State atrocities in Iraq. When Mosul was overrun by Islamic extremists in June 2014, about 500,000 civilians left the city en masse, in an effort to escape the siege. At that time, the only group that chose to remain in Mosul was the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, “a congregation of Iraqi sisters that has witnessed generation upon generation of war and carnage.”

Iraqi Christian Children suffer grievously-Please report the truth!

The nun told Nina Shea she was informed she was rejected because she is an “IDP,” an Internally Displaced Person. In other words, the State Department suspected that the Catholic nun could be secretly intending to stay in the United States.

Never mind that Sister Diana already had meetings set up with the Senate and House Foreign Relations Committees, the State Department, USAID, and several NGOs, or that she submitted several documents attesting to her character, as well as the temporary nature of her stay in the U.S.

She is, in fact, contracted to teach at the Babel College of Philosophy and Theology in Erbil, Kurdistan, for the 2015–16 academic year.

Moreover, Sister Diana had already been permitted to visit the United States, and she delivered the commencement address at Chicago’s Catholic Theological Union in 2012.

According to Shea, the State Department has pledged that “every overseas post and domestic bureau will seek opportunities to engage religious leaders” as part of its program for countering “violent extremism.” Apparently, Catholic nuns do not fit the bill.

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