It is no secret that the Japanese have a certain romance to the disaster. As the only country that has suffered a nuclear bomb - Hiroshima and Nagasaki - and that in turn has suffered some terrible earthquakes in history, it is not surprising that the Japanese are also the creators of some of the most famous monsters that come from Tues
Godzilla, ancient mythical being is awakened (I think it is female) from their sleep by a nuclear phenomenon and decides to terrorize Tokyo. Like the tsunami is an unstoppable force that destroys everything and terrorizing the population. is a fiction that somehow helps us prepare for the tragedy, assuming that one can, in fact, prepared. It helps us because, at least, no longer is "unimaginable." Aggression in nature has points of reference and comparison. But that does not cease to be moving and painful.
Today I think, for example, 30 children from the day of the earthquake are still at Primary School Kama Ishinomak city, hoping that their parents will pick up. The thirty wait patiently each afternoon after school to his mother or father go through them as they did every day. Thinking of their homes, their families, the children look.
According to reports the Daily Mail, these children, who range from 8 to 12 years old, are filled with hope when they hear the sound of the door of the school. They look back with eyes wide open . But do not come for them.
His teachers say that it is likely that children know that no one will come looking for them, but they say nothing. Say it is real. Say it is burying their parents. They prefer silence. And it's those rare times when the uncertainty, not knowing it is better to know. Until we know, the sound of the door still hopeful.
Masami Hoshi, physical education teacher, explains that the tsunami reached the time when the parents of this age group began to arrive to pick up their children. Some arrived early and managed to reach safety. Chances is that the others took to the sea.
no running water, electricity or heating, the school is a shelter for 657 people who roam the halls and corridors muddy. Among them are these 30 children every afternoon, at the same time, watch door.
I think of these children and I believe that Godzilla's prepared a little for this. That may imagine their parents fighting the monster, being heroes, saving others. I think that these kids can fantasize about the triumphant return of their fathers or mothers, after saving Tokyo.
Clearly their parents will be among the thousands and thousands of corpses now lost or unknown to saturate the morgues. will be among those who died horrible deaths, drowned and crushed by nature, when they were going to pick up their children from school .
What may be less reprehensible than that? What could have happened to merit abandoning their children forever in school?
These small have faced the real Godzilla. They are the face and symbol of the Japanese tragedy will be the subject of myths. And I hope that will grow and have their own children and I can say before sleep, "your grandfather was taken by the monster ... But not me. I do not take. "
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