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We are with you, and will always be: For the China Daily, Raymond Zhou writes about solidarity in the wake of the Wenchuan Earthquake:
We have all been drenched in tears over the loss of so many brothers and sisters. The wailing of mothers and fathers, the sight of dust-covered bodies of teenagers, cold and pale, pulled from the debris, haunt us day and night. The chilly rain, which exacerbated the misery, serves as a manifestation of our collective mourning.
This week, we are all Sichuanese, living in the fear of aftershocks, and in fading hopes of finding more survivors. Whenever one more survivor was extracted from a flattened building, it was an occasion for joy.
A day in quake-hit Beichuan: Tim Johnson at China Rises blogs about his experiences in Beichuan, one of the areas hardest-hit by the quake:
Earlier in the day, police had handed a group of us surgical masks and ordered us to wear them as we looked through the town. In fact, they asked us to wear two, one over the other. I didn’t quite get the meaning of the masks. Certainly, the smell of death lingers over cities like Beichuan. But I don’t think the smell is toxic.
I walked up a slope of rubble trying to get a better view. But first I had to wait as relief workers came down, bringing body after body in bags slung from metal poles.
Many hands aid in quake: The New York Times reports on non-governmental charity work in the aftermath of the Wenchuan Earthquake.