Inspiring
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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
When a major catastrophe occurs in a country you used to visit with the husband you’ve also just recently lost, you begin to worry about how to get back on even keel. Then, suddenly, stories come in.
Of the brave 50-man crew who chose to stay and face unknown danger at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station in Japan to stave off the repeat of yet another Chernobyl, a sacrifice like no other, especially as there have deaths among the workers and a good number of others previously on the job already hospitalized.
Of a four-month old baby, found alive in the rubble in Ishimaki in Northern Japan, three days after the massive earthquake yet followed by aftershocks in quick succession. That the baby is in pink, the same color used to promote breast cancer awareness toward hopeful recovery, cannot be mere coincidence: this is a message all will be well.
Of blogs and e-mail in the Internet, where, for instance, a Japanese woman clarifies “There is no ‘exodus,’ no one is running away, no one is escaping, fleeing or abandoning anything in Tokyo. Sure, people are scared at times, some people are getting worn down by the tension, but this is caused by fear and irresponsible media much more than any real danger to person or to property..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110318com4.html
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