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Dec. 29th, 2004 10:26 pmI feel like I should post something about the tsunamis, like I shouldn't just ignore this huge thing that's happening in the world, but I don't think I can come up with any words equal to the enormity of what's going on.
The Washington Post offers the comments of an American woman vacationing someplace that was hit -- she was actually in the ocean scuba diving when the tsunami arrived -- who says the best thing about getting on the plane to come home was the sudden absence of the smell of corpses. A separate article in the Post, discussing the disease fatalities that seem sure to follow this disaster, offers the helpful information that rotting corpses themselves are no threat to human health, beyond the emotional toll they place on survivors.
The one story that has lodged itself in my head is of a woman sitting on the ground, using her fingers to write and rewrite the name of her three-year-old daughter in the mud atop the mass grave in which her daughter lies.
The Washington Post offers the comments of an American woman vacationing someplace that was hit -- she was actually in the ocean scuba diving when the tsunami arrived -- who says the best thing about getting on the plane to come home was the sudden absence of the smell of corpses. A separate article in the Post, discussing the disease fatalities that seem sure to follow this disaster, offers the helpful information that rotting corpses themselves are no threat to human health, beyond the emotional toll they place on survivors.
The one story that has lodged itself in my head is of a woman sitting on the ground, using her fingers to write and rewrite the name of her three-year-old daughter in the mud atop the mass grave in which her daughter lies.