The Korean Ferry Disaster
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Dreadful, dreadful news. I didn't realize how young so many of them were. John Donne wrote that "any man's death diminishes me," but the death of young people is an extra loss. What would they have done to move the world forward? What scientists, artists, inventors, and diplomats were taken from us and from their families on that ferry? May their loved ones find comfort.
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I heard that the captain and the crew fled even before evacuating the passengers.. hope they investigate them thoroughly!
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- Jan 10, 2014
A national tragedy. I am praying that more survivors will be found and also for strength and solace for the victims' families.
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This is really heartbreaking. I hope more passengers are saved!
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Sometimes it takes a tragedy to show for all our flaws and frailties, the nobility that we human beings can also be capable of: this from a 17-year old, the president of the high school class on that ill-fated ferry.
Posted by Cynth: http://truthintranslation.tumblr.co...e-17-year-old-student-who-sacrificed-his-life
"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."
Posted by Cynth: http://truthintranslation.tumblr.co...e-17-year-old-student-who-sacrificed-his-life
"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."
It will be more heart wrenching in the day to come. This is just a confirmed dead.
During 2004 Tsunami, the first day the confirmed dead in Thailand was under a 100 and the next day was in a few hundred range. But you could see body lying everywhere. The toll climbed up drastically after the first few days. As you all know, the final toll in Thailand was around 250,000 more or less.
This ferry accident casualties are mainly teenagers. It will haunt the entire country for a long time.
During 2004 Tsunami, the first day the confirmed dead in Thailand was under a 100 and the next day was in a few hundred range. But you could see body lying everywhere. The toll climbed up drastically after the first few days. As you all know, the final toll in Thailand was around 250,000 more or less.
This ferry accident casualties are mainly teenagers. It will haunt the entire country for a long time.
Not sure if CNN is current, but according to Korean portal sites, death toll has risen to 25..... This is so sad
What kind of order is this? The officers who abandoned the ships and passenger? Is there any news regarding this? I am so sad, they are just teenagers.
I just saw the news, when the ship started to sink, they told the passengers to stay put because it would be safer. Well, I can understand they may have made a mistake there. But what I can't understand is, at 9'oclock, the police who had been reported, told them to start moving out of the ship, but they still told them to stay inside, and we STILL don't know why. And when it became too dangerous they got out of the ship ALONE. The first reporter wasn't the captian either, it was one of the students' parents I think. Really, I'd like to question his sanity. One crew, who was only 20 or 21(22 in Korean age) girl herself, was the only one to check all the students, hand out the lifevests, and told them to get out of the ship. And she died in the process.
It makes me sick, all those high school students who died knowing nothing. If I were them, I would have believed what the crew told them too, because who else would they believe when they knew they could die? When the ship sank.....god I don't even want to think about it....and their parents......
That is nauseating indeed, Jewels. I also read that only one lifeboat was deployed from the ferry. It sounds as if there was no disaster plan in place, or as if the crew was not trained in such a plan. These coastal ferry boats are huge, carrying hundreds of people, so any accident can mean a huge loss of life. But it seems as though there was a lot of human error involved in this particular situation, which is inexcusable. There's going to be a lot more misery and anger in this story before it's through, I fear.
