Dripping with pain, the anguished cries of the injured rang out across the site of the disaster drill on Seaway Road. “Heeelp. Help me. Pleeeeze, help me,” rasped 13-year-old Blake Harris, a volunteer victim spattered with fake blood and sporting a deep, but fake, wound on his arm. Harris and other bloody Boy Scouts from Troop 210 in Ocean Springs volunteered to miss a day of school and participate in Lifesaver 2004, a major Homeland Security drill that brought about 500 police, firefighters and military workers to practice rescuing victims of a terrorist attack involving nerve agents. The drill simulated a company picnic hit by a suicide bomber who blew up a car and released a nerve agent. The writhing Harris paused long enough to admit he was having fun and returned to his anguished, Oscar-winning moans. Full Story
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