May 14, 2011

Sacred victim 哀悼 遠藤未希さん


I'd like to talk about Miki Endo.
The newspaper reported the full story of Endo's heroic final moments. I cannot but think about her parents. Her father said I proud of my daughter, but I feel the deepest grief. The mother cried over her dearest daughters death.
She married ten months ago. She could have enjoyed ordinary happy life. She could have seen many flowers in beautiful spring. She could have talked with her intimate friends. Everything is could have. She never return .
The newspaper article is as follows:
 
The voice is Miki Endo, a 24 year old public worker in the Crisis Management Department of the city of Minami Sanriku. She is saying, roughly, "Please run away fast."
The city was one of the hardest hit along the Miyagi Coast. Of the 17,000 residents, 10,000 are feared to be dead, but the 7,000 who survived owe everything to Endo. Endo stayed at her post, repeating her warning, until the wave struck.
Miki Endo did not let go of her microphone, even during the very moment the black waves of the tsunami engulfed the city, so that every last villager could hear her warning call. One co-worker told Mikis mother, that he saw Miki being swept away by the tsunami wave.
Another survivor, a 61 year-old man told Endo's mother that the broadcast had saved his live. That he had heard Endo's voice and immediately jumped in his car and headed for higher ground. He told Endo's mother:
I heard the voice of your daughter the whole way.
If there's any comfort at all to be taken in the awful catastrophe in Japan, it is in these stories of true heroism. Like those 50 workers at the Fukushima nuclear reactor, who have stayed at their posts, fighting to avoid a meltdown while the entire region is evacuated, Miki Endo should be remembered as a true hero of the highest order, and remembered forever with grateful reverence.

遠藤美希さん、あなたのことは日本の誰もが忘れません。心からの感謝と哀悼と畏敬の念を申し上げます。

4 comments:

  1. It is amazing how in what currently seems to be an ego-centric society there are people like this. They are the minority - but their deeds will always be remembered. This courage of the soul, can it be brought up? Or is this something that can only show in life-or-death situations?

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  2. Thank you, Olga
    If possible, I didn’t want to know her. The fact was too hard. I know some more people were killed by their duty. Our grief is too deep. Without the quake and tsunami, they could have lived as ordinary person. I know much more people are suffered many kind of disaster in this world…..

    Why I have to write to my blog as anonymous?

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  3. :) I think you don't have to as long as you aren't doing it on purpose..

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  4. Reconstruction is progressing gradually.
    I am not a pessimist.
    Thank you, Olga
    M.

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