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Please let me go there, I can save another child
Today I got a phone call from a friend, who is making field report about the rescue actions in Mianzhu, Sichuan, one of the most destroyed city by earthquake in China. She is a young tender girl and came just back from another hard day.
「It is the end of the world,」 she described in phone the scenes happened in front of her, 「my eyes can not stop pouring tears. I can nearly not work as objective journalist anymore. It is such a tragic: ruins all around, screams and cries everywhere, the rescue groups work like crazy men, but still they have to face the fact hopelessly, that many bodies are already dead. Our photographer made just a few pieces of pictures, then he threw the camera away and joined the others to help the victims. You just can not stay there and doing nothing.」
She told me, she could never forget what happened in a school. Half of the main building collapsed. Near 100 children were buried under the wreck, all of them are young children. They were still having lessens in the classrooms when the earthquake stroke them. Some firemen have already taken over 10 children and over 30 corpses. 「Loooking at these tiny bodies with red cravats around their necks, 「 she said,」I lost all my courage to speak anything professional or objective. They could never open their eyes anymore.」
Suddenly moved the plates of wrecked building because of the sequent quake, just at the critical time for rescuing. The remain of the building would collapse again at any time. It was provoking the red eye bull to entry the remains. To prevent irrelevant casualties gave the field director order, all rescue crew should retreat immediately till the wrecked building came 「stable 「 again. But it was reported that several children was in sight.
Some of the crew struggled to get into the entrance to help. A giant cement plate fell down. The others pulled them back to the safe zone. Just had taken a living child out, pulled from the entrance by his mates, a fireman got on his knee and plead 「please let me get in there! I can save another child...another life...」
All the people around cried out, but they are so helpless in front of the might of the nature. The second collapse happened without mercy. The sighted children were dug out, but only one survived the collapse. 「When the fireman held the child, cried and ran for medical help,」 she sobbed on the line, 「my tears again rushed its way through my eyes...」
I am not able to imagine what a tragic but heroic scene happened on the other side of the line. What I do know is, this happened. And it keeps on happening in the center of the earthquake area, just now, just tonight, when I sit in my cozy room. I realize first time, that maybe I should do something. I can not go there personally. But still I can do something may help.
So I write this blog. It will be not able to give any substantial help. But it is what I can do at least. I can call help for them who in misery. It is the first thing I can do, then the second, then the third...
God bless the human! There are Love among people. If you, my friend, be able to help them, I hope we can make them true. One article, one cent, are all precious support. 2008 is a year of glory and suffer. May the love makes our suffer a glory to be a human being! |
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