Haiti momentum

It really sounds bad. There are all kinds of rescue crews running around. There was a single happy moment where a lady was pulled alive from a collapsed building alive. Another where a child was saved. The time for rescues is past. It has come to recovery. There are pictures of bodies clogging streets.

Some interviews are coming out of the worst zones. People sound like their spirits have been broken. Some sound like leaders who will get things going. Some just sound lost. Every one has lost loved ones and friends.

Pictures are horrific. One photo showed bodies lined one after the other for an entire stretch of road between several collapsed buildings. There were two rows of of bodies. It must have been over a hundred lying in the sunlight. The photo was taken from the air or a high place. There was one man standing next to the rows with his hands on his back. He looked tired.

There are stories of mass graves. I don't know how else you would handle the situation. That thought makes me frightened. I cannot imagine suffering the loss of family and then learning that maybe they are buried in one of the mass graves outside of town. Maybe not. That is another loss.

There have been several occasions where the police fire warning shots. So many that when the police started shooting people for real, people didn't panic. They just stood there while some people in front of them dropped.

The first boots on the ground from what I heard were American and Israeli. Not sure how true that is. I hope it is true only because I know the U. S. is up to that sort of thing. The world expects it from us and I'm not sure I mind that fact.

They didn't need to block every frigging channel for a telethon. Thank goodness for the internet.