Legacy MattersWe will be hearing many more amazing stories like this one. Via The Command Post doing its usual wonderful job as a newsblog collective with this post by Alan Brain.
From The Australian: Woman releases son in tsunami
An Australian woman was forced to let go of one of her children to save another when a wall of water struck their Thai holiday destination. Jillian Searle, of Perth, was near her Phuket hotel pool with sons Lachie, five, and Blake, two, when the tsunami hit on Sunday. Her husband Brad watched the calamity unfold from the vantage point of his first-floor room. Ms Searle was faced with a terrible choice as she fought to stay alive amid the raging waters. "I knew I had to let go of one of them and I just thought I'd better let go of the one that's the oldest," she told Sky News. "A lady grabbed hold of him for a moment but she had to let him go because she was going under. "And I was screaming, trying to find him, and we thought he was dead." Sky News said Lachie was found safe two hours later after surviving the raging torrent by clinging to a door.
How lucky she was. Consider the parents looking for their children in the make-shift morgues. This photograph by Jason Smith on assignment from The Sydney Morning Herald via Tim Blair doing his usual splendid job in Australia.
