地震中的中國人,給美國同事們的英文信

On May the 12th, an 8.0 earthquake hit Wenchuan City, Sichuan Province located in the south west part of China. According to the results closed on May the 18th, 2:00 PM local time,  32,477 were dead, 220,109 injured,  5 millions homeless.
The most touching scenery however goes beyond all the bloody pain, the tears and crying of babies, parents, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives… it goes right to the peek point of how people love and support each other and how people sacrifice their own lives for others.
Please allow me to briefly share two stories (among thousands) to show how high love can reach and how it touches the very fundamental of human lives.

1.  When the rescuers found her, she was already dead, crushed by the collapsed house. Through all the debris, people can see her posture: both knees down, upper body forward with hands holding her body, like praying to the heaven.
When the rescue team moved on to the next collapsed building, the team leader felt strange about the posture of the dead lady. He went back, checked again and shouted to his team: ”Come back, there is a baby alive under her body!” After a hard try, they carefully cleared the debris around the dead woman. Lied under her body was her well-wrapped baby, about three or four month old. Because of her mother’s protection, he was not hurt at all. He was still sleeping when he was taken out. 

The doctor came over to perform the routine check and found out a cell phone tucked under his blanket. He took a look at the screen, an already written message is there: “my loving baby, if you can survive, please remember I always love you.”
The doctor, who is so used to seeing life and death, cried.  The cell phone was passed along emotionately…. (See attached picture 1)

2  A 20-year-old female teacher did  the same: use her body to cover her students, just like they were her babies.  She rescued 13 students and was killed by the deadly crash….(See attached picture 2 & 3)







The attached picture #4 shows another baby who was rescued.




Picture#5 shows a female police breast feeding the motherless babies

After I saw all the sad and moving pictures and read all the painful yet hopeful stories, I decided to share it with my fellow co-workers here in SH, just to show my respect and my love for those who are so brave, so loving and caring in such a disaster. The battle of life and death is still going on and the people of Sichuan province are facing huge challenges of recovering from the deep wound and pain and almost total destruction.  They need help. 

(Note from the author on 5/20: I have removed the donation info. Those who are interested in donation could pick the one that is appropriate for you, eg. Red Cross. Thank you! 虔謙5／20注：有關捐款機構的片段被我刪除了。朋友們可自行介紹合適的機構。謝謝!)

Also please keep in mind that you could contact the American Red Cross as well with indication that the notion is for the Earthquake in China.

Thank you all for reading this post and for your support.  Any words you have I will make sure that the Chinese people hear it. I am a Chinese American and I understand that Chinese people is grateful and will always remember....After all, when we go back to the very basis of human being,  we are truly one.  Thank you!

歡迎修正參考轉載 (其實鼓勵我寫這個的更多的是精神的分享和弘揚)


中國哀悼日禱告 2008-05-19
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[demitasse]

你個SB群思，中國在Hurricane Katrina捐了5 million
你自己到wikipedia看
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
Over seventy countries pledged monetary donations or other assistance. Notably, Cuba and Venezuela (both hostile to US government themselves) were the first countries to offer assistance, pledging over $1 million, several mobile hospitals, water treatment plants, canned food, bottled water, heating oil, 1,100 doctors and 26.4 metric tons of medicine, though this aid was rejected by the U.S. government. [100] [101] [102] [103] Kuwait made the largest single pledge, $500 million; other large donations were made by Qatar ($100 million), South Korea ($30 million), Australia ($10 million), India, China (both $5 million), Pakistan ($1.5 million),[104] and Bangladesh ($1 million).[105]

[群思]

美國已捐了2300萬美刀。美國鬧災時，中國捐了嗎？

[moonwalker123]

Thank you for your wonderful writing, I also used some of your letter for my pledge to my collegues.
Thanks.

[mayq]

I picked up part of the message and sent it to my collegues. Pray for China. Thank you!

[我是虔謙]

其實鼓勵我寫這個的更多的是精神的分享和弘揚