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The smiling little girl who was rescued by an Air Force team during Hurricane Katrina has been found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Air Force Reserve Master Sgt.\u00a0Mike Maroney,\u00a0the girl in the picture is a now 13-year-old New Orleans <\/span>named La’Shay Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air Force Times in March interviewed La’Shay and her family and spoke to Maroney, who 10 years ago said he hoisted the then-3-year-old\u00a0“#FindKatrinakid” from her New Orleans house into his hovering helicopter and took\u00a0the family to the New Orleans airport. Brown’s family, on the other hand, said they were\u00a0picked up at the New Orleans convention center and taken to the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, Today <\/span>Maroney said he did so many rescues that he may have confused some of the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When one of #FindKatrinakid’s friends from school wrote Maroney’s son on Instagram and said, “I think this is the girl who your dad is trying to find,” Maroney contacted the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’m pretty sure it’s her,” he told\u00a0Air Force Times on Wednesday. “It feels\u00a0right.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People Magazine first reported the discovery of #FindKatrinakid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maroney had\u00a0been trying to reconnect with the girl ever since the rescue which occurred Sept.\u00a06, 2005.\u00a0The scene\u00a0was captured in <\/span>An iconic photo that has been republished around the world shows the girl hugging Maroney at the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

When Air Force Times spoke to La’Shay’s mother in March told Air Force Times that the family was picked up by an Air Force helicopter at the New Orleans\u00a0convention center and flown to the airport. That would rule out La’Shay Brown and her family — whose story contradicts Maroney’s that the family was\u00a0whcih was picked up at the convention center–not hoisted from their flood threatened home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The smiling Katrina girl has been located,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The search for #Katrinakid went viral after Air Force\u00a0Times posted a story<\/a> about Maroney’s effort to reconnect\u00a0with her. Thousands of Military Times followers on Facebook and Twitter joined in the search to find her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The smiling Katrina girl has been located, thanks to thousands of Military Times followers on Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the smiling Katrina girl has been located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La’Shay in March was, she’s <\/span>\u00a0a seventh grader living in New Orleans, not far from where she and her family were evacuated by the an <\/span>Air Force rescue team rescued by Awas evacuated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La’Shay Brown shown here in a 2014 photo.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo Credit: Courtesy of La’Shay Brown<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her cousin saw the viral photo of toddler 2-year-old <\/span>La’Shay in the arms of Air Force Master Sgt. Sergeant Mike <\/span>Maroney and contacted Military Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

viral effort to find her and reached out to Military Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air Force Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La’Shay, 12, said<\/span> in a text message told Air Force Times\u00a0she doesn’t remember the rescue \u2014 she was only a toddler at the time \u2014 but she does remember being moved to Tennessee where she and her family stayed for two years before returning to New Orleans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And she’s\u00a0was just catching up with the massive worldwide effort to media campaign – including television reports – to find her. together with the Air Force veteran Master Sergeant Mike Maroney man who rescued her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeing herself on TV Monday night “was amazing,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And even though she doesn’t remember Maroney, she said she would like to meet him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would she say to him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I was a child then,” she said in a text. to air Force Times. <\/span>“But now I realize that he gave me the best thing that ever happened to me by taking me out of that situation. So I would say thank you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They plan to reunite the weekend of Sept. 19-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La’Shay and her mother, aunt and grandmother were rescued by then-Staff Sgt. sergeant <\/span>Maroney, who had arrived seven days earlier in New Orleans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From that day on, Maroney said he had wondered what happened to the smiling girl in pigtails and initiated an effort to locate her. Military Times learned of his quest and ramped up the effort, with reports running in nationwide media, including USA Today\u00a0and broadcast outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

After the Katrina rescue mission ended, the photo of the two of them, shot by an Air Force photographer, seemed to show up everywhere: on coinage and paper place mats at the base exchange, on phone cards, and a magazine cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many who saw it \u2014 a little girl in a pink shirt and pigtails, arms flung around the neck of the pararescueman who’d hoisted her from the flooded ruins of her family’s New Orleans home \u2014 the image depicted the best of the response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maroney in March said he\u00a0remembers the descent between treetops and power lines, a precarious hover the helicopter pilot pulled off with expert precision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

has always wondered what became of that little girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the nearly 10 years that have gone by, the photo’s prominence has faded. But not for the Maroney who wants to reconnect with the girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maroney went headfirst down the hoist, righting himself just before dismounting, hands in the air like a gymnast. He Maroney <\/span>took La’Shay’s family members them <\/span>up one by one. The mother cried. The little girl grinned, fearless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, Maroney was assigned to the 58th Rescue Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the helicopter, the little girl excitedly pointed out her home and her school. She reached out to rub her mother’s back as the woman cried, Maroney said in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandra Brown, La’Shay’s grandmother, who was also rescued that day, remembered that La’Shay’s mother, Shawntrell Brown, was terrified. “She thought the helicopter was going to crash,” Sandra Brown said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Lashay comforted her mother.<\/span>Maroney told Military Times he remembers La’Shay comforting her mother, saying: “It’s OK. …\u00a0,” the girl said. “We’re safe. <\/span>Don’t worry.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they arrived at the airport, the place where hundreds would be deposited before departing for Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Memphis and beyond, the girl wrapped her arms around Maroney, pressed her cheek against his and smiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If I never do anything else again, that hug and that smile made it all worthwhile,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maroney didn’t know a combat cameraman had captured the interaction until later that night, when he received several photos from the day. He didn’t know how far the image would travel until more than a year later, when he was on a deployment to Iraq. Another airman told Maroney he’d seen the image on military coins handed out as change at the base exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon, Maroney said, “it was everywhere, on Burger King placemats and AT&T phone cards.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A foundation for fallen rescue airmen \u2014So That Others May Live Foundation\u2014 used it on their brochures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I didn’t expect that,” said Maroney, now a civilian pararescue instructor at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He left active duty in August 2006 and has spent the last eight years in the Air Force Reserve, rising to the rank of master sergeant. He went to war twice after Katrina, to Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the little girl \u2014 her picture still on his wall \u2014 that Maroney remembers above all else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 2010, he sent a letter to Oprah Winfrey, believing if anyone could find her and reconnect them, it would be her. But Maroney never heard back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had\u00a0tried on his own since then, circulating the picture online once a year or so in the hope someone might recognize her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March\u00a0This month, Maroney uploaded a 20-minute video to YouTube recounting the story. He posted a message on the online bulletin board Reddit.com with a link to the image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Military Times Air Force Times told the story of his quest to find Lashay\u2014though he didn’t know her name–in a story published the a story on the search Sunday night. Within 24 hours the story and photo were shared more than a thousand times. And then the break came when Lashay’s cousin contacted Air Force Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plans for a reunion are underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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