TinyRedLeaf |
2011-03-22 02:13 |
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Originally Posted by Goshin
(Post 3533335)
The way i understood it was that she was imagining him rather, than seeing his ghost, she was so traumatized that she could not accept reality and created her own, but i could be wrong
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Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture (March 21, Mon)
Within minutes of the March 11 earthquake striking, Eriko Ohara, 33, attempted to flee by car to an evacuation centre in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, with her two young daughters Rio, two, and Ria, five months. She received a call from her husband, Yoshinari, also 33, a delivery-company driver.
"Are you alright? The phone lines will go out soon," he said.
There was so much she wanted to say. But carrying two children crying with fear, Eriko was unable to express her feelings. The phone was soon disconnected. It was the couple's final conversation.
Sadly, Eriko received news of her husband's death last Thursday. Her husband's boss told her that Yoshinari had almost certainly succumbed to the tsunami while delivering goods around the Kesennuma area.
Last Friday, she went to a temporary morgue in the city to identify his body after her children were asleep. Seeing her husband's body, tears rolled down her cheeks. "I love you," she murmured.
Eriko returned to their house — miraculously still standing — to collect some clothes to dress her husband. She looked through belongings she had collected from his company. Among these items she found a ring.
Yoshinari had apparently bought it as a surprise White Day present for March 14 in return for chocolates she had given him on Valentine's Day. She remembered sometimes sniping at Yoshinari: "I wish you'd get me a ring or something but, sadly, you're not the present-giving type."
Her life at the evacuation centre continues and bringing up her children there has become increasingly difficult. She does not know how much longer the situation will continue, but every time she looks at the ring, Eriko promises her husband she will take full responsibility for bringing up their children.
THE DAILY YOMIURI
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Miyako, Iwate prefecture
Elderly man:I heard that the second wave of tsunami was coming, so we (he and his wife) tried to run away. The water started to come in. It looked bad, so we started to go to the second floor together. I have a bad leg, so my wife was behind me, cheering me on, saying, "One, two, one, two."
The voice stopped. So, I looked back and she was not there. Reporter:What happened to your wife? Elderly man: (impassive)She's dead.
When I went back to get my stuff, she was lying down in the hallway.
VOICES FROM JAPAN, CNN CLIPS OF TSUNAMI/EARTHQUAKE SURVIVORS
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Natori, Miyagi prefecture (March 14, Mon)
Yuta Saga, 21, was picking up broken cups after the earthquake when he heard sirens and screams of "Tsunami!" He grabbed his mother by the arm and ran to the junior-high school, the tallest building around.
When they reached the school, Yuta and his mother found the stairs to the roof clogged with older people who appeared unable to muster the strength to climb them. Some were just sitting or lying on the steps. As the bottom floor filled with fleeing residents, the wave hit.
At first, the doors held. Then water began to pour through the seams and flow into the room. In a panic to reach the roof, younger residents began pushing and yelling, "Hurry!" and "Out of the way!" They climbed over those who were not moving, or elbowed them aside.
"I couldn't believe it," Yuta said. "They were even shoving old people out of the way. The old people couldn't save themselves. People didn't care about others."
Then the doors burst open, and the water rushed in. It was quickly waist level. Yuta saw one older woman, without the strength or will to stand, sitting in water that rose to her nose. He rushed behind her, grabbed her under the arms and hoisted her up the stairs. Another person on the stairs grabbed her and lifted her up to another person. The men formed a human chain, lifting the older residents and some children to the top.
"I saw the ugly side of people, and then I saw the good side," he said. "Some people only thought of themselves. Others stopped to help."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Just three examples of courage, grief and tragedy amid thousands more of such stories lingering in the wake of the disaster that struck Japan on March 11. Reality bites hard enough, without need for far-fetched contrivances to add further spice.
This anime's ending is melodramatic, certainly. As a drama, it works. As a purported "simulation" of disaster, however, it failed miserably — and that was where the series lost me as an emotionally engaged viewer.
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