Monday, May 09, 2011

Photo of the day: Japan, two months after the tsunami

Caption at the source:
Wakana Kumagai, 6, waits for her mother Yoshiko after visiting the grave of her father, who was killed by the March 11 tsunami, at a temporary mass grave site in Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi prefecture, April 21, 2011, after attending an entrance ceremony of Omagari elementary school. ... Her father, Kazuyuki, called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11 earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari elementary school which was serving as a shelter. He was found near the shelter four days after the tsunami (Reuters/Toru Hanai)
It is beyond my imagination as to how people carry on after such a catastrophe.  I suppose humans are far more resilient than I think ...

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