Imagine waking one Friday morning, going about your routine, readying for work and getting the kids off to school, looking ahead to the weekend. Then imagine the earth shaking beneath your feet with unprecedented violence and fury, your house and possessions gone, your kids swept out to sea, and your life as you know it over. Like so many others, I watched in horror as the images emerged showing the wretched devastation to Japan's eastern coastline. No one with even a semblance of feeling cannot fail to be moved by the terror those poor citizens in Miyagi, Fukushima and Iwate must have endured. The utter helplessness and despair at the realization that entire cities have, like Atlantis, been enveloped by the ocean and disappeared.
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