By Guest Columnist STACY SHELTON, former environmental reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who is now a public affairs specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Southeast Regional Office in Atlanta
Pat Epps, owner of Epps Aviation at Dekalb-Peachtree Airport, recently offered me the chance to ride along on a mission to Haiti with one of his pilots. I said yes in part because I wanted to see some of the devastation up close. My old newspaper reflexes had kicked in, the ones that compelled me to scramble for a front row seat to news event.
But on the 13-hour trip, which began and ended at PDK, I was never more than 100 yards from the airplane. I didn’t see the ruins, or its many victims. Just small tent cities and blue tarps over cinderblock buildings as we flew in and out.
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