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In reply to the discussion: "Please, do NOT pray for Japan.." [View all]Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Those are just homes. Compared with lost lives, faces we will never see again, laughs we will never hear again, lips we will never kiss again, it is nothing.
Here on my island, there is a family that moved away from Fukushima area and has been living here. They are returning this month. We have become friendly and I am sad to see them leave. But there life is moving on. They are fortunate that their family is intact and everyone is healthy.
There were no deaths from the radiation and the going on and on about it in the face of 50,000 deaths smells to me like the people who do so do not "get it". I don't think we need you to speak for us as we do have mouths and we use them.
The land is habitable, the food is edible and we are still picking up the pieces of rubble from the wave. Please take it from someone that lives here and comforting the mourners of the dead.