Loved Ones
Time does fly fast. I found the article on the website about Japanese parents who lost their child by the tsunami. Okawa Elementary School, Ishinomaki-city (Miyagi) is known as had been hit with a tragedy - of the 108 children at the school, 70 were confirmed dead with 4 still missing. 13 teachers and others were killed. The school was surrounded by a river and steep-sided mountain, and they perished in the tsunami while they were fleeing to higher ground.
Not only the Self-Defense Force's search operation, but parents have continued to search their children by themselves every day. One mother took a licence to operate heavy equipment to dig over soil. I don't have any children, so it's hard to imagine their suffering, but must be very very difficult to accept their own children's death without finding the body. A fisherman found a part of their child's body from the sea, far from the school. It was identified as their child as results on DNA testing. They have still searched to find other 4 children. The sad fact is they have to accept it.
Not only the Self-Defense Force's search operation, but parents have continued to search their children by themselves every day. One mother took a licence to operate heavy equipment to dig over soil. I don't have any children, so it's hard to imagine their suffering, but must be very very difficult to accept their own children's death without finding the body. A fisherman found a part of their child's body from the sea, far from the school. It was identified as their child as results on DNA testing. They have still searched to find other 4 children. The sad fact is they have to accept it.
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