On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:59:45 -0800, Powell Hargrave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As we enjoy our Christmas presents and play with our expensive photographic > toys we are all secure in tomorrow. If we all give some to those suffering > in Asia we will still be enjoying life tomorrow even if a tiny amount less > affluent. >
I can't remember a worse natural disaster in my lifetime (although my roomate reminded me of a few earthquakes on mainland China of around 200,000, but we in the west hardly heard of those). This morning's paper predicts that the death toll will likely top 100,000. That's an inconceivable number to me. I'll be giving a modest amount of money to Red Cross for their disaster relief fund, knowing that every bit helps. It would be nice if countries could mobilize disaster relief "armies" as quickly as they do to prosecute wars. Lord knows, those countries around the Indian Ocean need the aid right now. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
