Has anyone else noticed the media coverage on Japan has dropped off the past week? I wonder if it's purely ratings-related, do their viewers need a new story to follow? Well, onto the next news-worthy headline...conflict in the middle east…is it a war or is it not…blah blah blah. We know how that's going to end, right?
My heart breaks for the Japanese and all the uncertainty they are facing these days. Someone compared the clean up efforts currently underway to a quarter century's worth of trash accumulation being cleaned up by a relatively low number of workers.
Imagine how many children have joined the other 143 million orphans in the world as a result of this disaster. Staggering. We need to remember them in our prayers.
I must end on a happier note...this incredible story of rescue should prove to anyone that there is a God and he has a greater plan for this family.
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Amid the silent corpses a baby cried out—and Japan met its tiniest miracle.
On March 14, soldiers from Japan's Self-Defense Forces went door to door in Ishinomaki, a coastal town northeast of Senda, pulling bodies from homes that had been flattened by the earthquake and tsunami. More accustomed to hearing the crunching of rubble and the sloshing of mud than sounds of life, they dismissed the baby's cry as a mistake. Until they heard it again.
They made their way to a pile of debris and carefully removed fragments of wood and slate, shattered glass and rock. And then they saw her: a 4-month-old baby girl in a pink woolen bear suit.
A tidal wave literally swept the baby from her parents' arms when it hit their home on March 11. Afterward, her parents — both of whom survived the disaster — took refuge in their wrecked house, worried that their little girl was dead. Soldiers managed to reunite the baby with her overjoyed father shortly after the rescue.
