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Tsunami Disaster
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
When we just got arrived from NC on Dec 26th, I heard news about Tsunami disaster in south Asia from my father in-law. Then I turned on the tv and watched the news telling about the tidal wave happened in there. Gossh, it's so terrible because so many victims have been found after disaster. The news said the highest number of victims are people from Banda Aceh, one province in Indonesia. The rest are from Puket (Thailand), Sri Lanka, and south India. I felt sad every time I saw news about this accident which also showed how suffer the living people or survivors after the tragedy.Thank God, many countries including USA have delivered and shipped the aids to Aceh and some other counties which got hit by Tsunami. I am so proud to see the pictures of US military being there to help the victims. I think this moment would be one unforgetable-big-history in Indonesia when the USA military with their ships & aircraft / helicopter came landing on the earth of Indonesia not for war reason but to save the victims. I remember I've ever had a dream about US military coming to Indonesia but I forgot how did it happen. It's unbelievable to know that my dream really happened in a reality.
An Indonesian National Red and White flag flies at a flattened village in the town of Meulaboh, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005. At least 152,221 people have been reported dead around southern Asia and as far away as Somalia on Africa's eastern coast from an earthquake and massive tsunami that smashed coastlines on Dec. 26, 2004. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
U.S. military personnel carry an indured Acehnese man at Banda Aceh's airport in the tsunami-hit city, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra January 11, 2005. As cash donations pour in from around the world for the victims of Asia's tsunami, fears are rife that corruption will divert big chunks of the aid money before it reaches the disaster zone. REUTERS/Tarmizy Harva
Citizens of Cot Darat rush a U.S. Navy (news - web sites) SH-60F helicopter as it unloads humanitarian aid supplies in the region of Aceh, in Sumatra, January 18, 2005. U.S. helicopters stepped up aid flights in tsunami-hit Indonesia Tuesday as U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) urged rich nations to spend more on preventing natural disasters before the next one hits. Aid workers said supplies were making it to isolated areas of Indonesia's northern Aceh province, where some 115,000 people died in the December 26 tsunami that ravaged Indian Ocean nations as far away as Africa. EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Jordon R. Beesley/Handout
In this photo released by the U.S. Navy (news - web sites), the Military Sealift Command (MSC) hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), foreground, navigates alongside the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) after arriving on station Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005, in the Indian Ocean near Banda Aceh, Sumamtra, Indonesia. Mercy has deployed to assist in humanitarian aid efforts currently in progress. The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group has been operating in the Indian Ocean off the waters of Indonesia in support of Operation Unified Assistance, the humanitarian relief effort to aid the victims of the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami that struck Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/US. Navy, Mate 3rd Class Gabriel R. Piper)
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