remember everything, they are not the perfect victim. talk to me a little bit about this idea, when you talk with the cultural shift it needs to happen, what we need to do to simply believe women? this is what i call the life cycle of a survivor. it s a misconception we have because of all the television shows, i m a survivor myself. that s why i use that story to explain. people think, there are some people that remember every single detail and moment. and then you have to understand that this is some of the worst things that ve ever happen to us. i do not want to remember. i do remember a lot of the details, but because i don t want to remember, a rather lose all of the memories then, to remember that moment in my life. i think it s things like that the people don t get about what sexual violence is. you have to compare it as a type of death for so many people. you ve taken a part of us that we can never get back. we can only try to get something new in its place, and try to be who
testimony. you said that she could remember more. we see often the survivors are dismissed when they can t recount exactly every detail of what they survived, and what they endured. somehow, because they can t remember everything, they are not the perfect victim. talk to me a little bit about this idea, when you talk with the cultural shift it needs to happen, what we need to do to simply believe women? this is what i call the life cycle of a survivor. is that misconception we have because of all the television shows, i m a survivor myself. that s why i use that story to explain. people think, there are some people that remember every single detail and moment. and then you have to understand that this is some of the worst things would ve ever happen to us. i do not want to remember. i do remember a lot of the details, but because i don t want to remember, a rather lose all of the memories then, to remember that moment in my life. i think it s things like that the people don t get abo
september 12th, 2001, and america on whatever day it is, 2021. i m a survivor. and i m proud of it. everybody was together, great. coeds, college kids, bringing us peanut butter and jelly in lacks paper on the site, like, i mean, america was probably as unified as it could ever be. there was no bipartisan divide. he just said, i m an america, and have to do this. everybody was one. the people that were down there, and that i shared this with, we still keep in touch. i met people there that i
responsibility for her. death calories legacy, and the time to heal. i m not a victim, i m a survivor. when dateline continues. a survivor when dateline continues
things. floods from the mississippi river are heading their way. mandatory evacuations are in parishes. they are from the spillway. four flood gates are open to divert the mississippi floodwaters from baton rouge and new orleans. ed is joining us there. ed is at the scene for me. are a lot of people panic stricken? i think a lot of people knew it was coming, quite frankly. we are in the town cross springs, which is downstream from the spillway opened up yesterday afternoon. really, what s happening here is there s a massive levee system following the river down to morgan city. what happens is hundreds of tributaries and creeks that pour into the river. a lot of those creeks will be backed up. that is the reason why this flooding is a concern. it s why officials have been issuing evacuation orders. in a number of the small communities this afternoon, you don t really you know people were expecting this. still very devastating for them. we have been in several communities w