The first time I heard "Home" recorded by Canadian singer Michael Bublé I was in a mobile command post in Orleans Parish outside of New Orleans after Katrina. I was lacing up my boots getting ready to go out on patrol, being on a TDA for several weeks and after seeing all the distruction day after day I was certainly ready to go home.
Later that afternoon while walking down a neighborhood street where most of the homes had been destroyed we came upon a mostly intact home. On the front porch, sitting in a rocking chair, was an elderly black gentleman with an old double barreled shotgun laying across his lap. My partner and I walked up to the porch and I asked, "how you doing sir?"
"I'm doing fine officer, how are ya'll?"
"We're fine sir. We are out keeping an eye on the neighborhood and wanted to see if you're having any trouble."
He looked at me, smiled, and patted his old shotgun and replied, "we're not having any trouble and I'm making sure any troublemakers know I means business."
"Yes sir, is there anything we can do for you?" I asked.
"Well, yes, I only haves two shotgun shells and they may have got wet. Can you spare any?" He was eyeing my Mossburg 590A1
"You bet!" I reached into my ammo pouch and handed him four rounds of 00 buck. "Keep your powder dry, sir."
"Much ablidged," he said.
Every time I hear "Home" I recall that day.
Michael Bublé - "Home" Official Music Video - YouTube
