Omg, I can't even begin to imagine... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of eckinator Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2011 10:09 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Queensland Floods
shortened resend after >10KB bounce 2011/1/13 eckinator <[email protected]>: > Thank you for that report Tan, it really helped to get a personal > grasp of things. News reports are always so dry and I agree you should > publish this somewhere. > > The story you related of the four year old reminded me of something > horrible I watched on TV the other day about the sinking of MV Wilhelm > Gustloff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Wilhelm_Gustloff in which > some 9000 people, most of them civilians including many children and > babies lost their lives. There was an eyewitness, a lady perhaps 80 or > 90 years of age who cried bitterly even after all those year telling > how she saw all these little babies whose heads were so heavy in > relation to their bodies and who drifted in the sea upside down in > their life vests and how she remembers seeing all those little legs > sticking out of the water and could never sing "all my little > ducklings" to a child again after that. It was heartwrenching to watch > and still is to write about and I don't want to imagine what it must > be like to be burdened with that memory. > > I pray you'll all be safe and that the lesson won't be lost. Politics > need to wake up about climate change before all is too late. > > Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
