The Story of Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Jackson Recently, 54-year-old Hardy Jackson taught the world how to hold on while at the same time having to let go. Hardy is a Katrina survivor whose harrowing experience captures the horrifying tale of every Alabamian, Mississippian, and Louisianan. The sound of the hurricane was deafening as it played its bass sounding thumps upon the roof of Hardy and Tonya Jackson’s house. Suddenly the storm began ripping their house in two. The dividing house rendered Hardy helpless as he tried to hold his family together. With his left hand Hardy held on to his children and grandchildren. With his right hand he held on to his wife as the raging water desperately tried to separate them. Hardy was determined to hold on to what was left of his life. Everything that was important to him was in his hands. Then he was faced with the unimaginable as Tonya said to Hardy, “You have to let me go.” Hardy said, “Don’t say that, we can make it together; hold on. How can life move forward without you, my wife, my friend, my children’s mother?” Coursing through his head were the vows he had made twenty-nine years earlier. “I promise to love, cherish, and protect you. In sickness and health until death separates us.” This was not the way the script was to be written, he thought. We are supposed to live until natural death takes one of us! Our life is not ending like this. “Hardy,” Tonya, said, “you have to le me go. But hold on to the children and grandchildren. Take care of them.” Tonya Jackson knew something about holding on by letting go. She made the decision to preserve the Jackson’s posterity by demanding that Hardy let her go. If the children had been lost, her future would have been canceled. But she will live on in the life of her children and grandchildren…”

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