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大爱无疆
True
Compassion Has No Border
24 May 2008
1
Beautiful Yuan Wenting (袁文婷) was only 20-year old and taught
grade one at Minzhuzhongxin Primary when the earthquake
struck. The kids in her class were too young to
comprehend the grave situation and too terrified to run,
so Yuan carried them flown to the open one by one. When
she tried to get the last child, the buidling collapsed,
and she never comes out of the building alive again.
2
During the violent quake, Wu Zhonghong (吴忠洪),
a teacher at Huaiyuanzhen High, held up the door that was
about to fall to allow the students running out of the
room. When made roll call on the playground, he found two
students missing, thus courageously dashed back into the
crumbled building to search for the kids. Later his body
was discovered in the rubble, and under his body, it was
the bodies of the two missing students.
3
When the earthquake shook the building, young teacher
Wang Zhouming (王周明) calmly guided his students to
evacuate. At the fateful moment when the building fell
apart, he lept forward to shove a girl out the door while
he himself was struck down by a huge beam. His skull was
fractured and he died immediately.
4
Tan Qianqui (谭千秋), the school
master at Dongqi High, was found dead with his arms spread wide
covering a desk. Under the dest, there were four
children, all survived the ordeal.
5
Tang Hong (唐鸿) was a dance teacher, young and full
of life. On May 12th afternoon, she was busily arranging
her students to prepare Children's Day show. When the earth shuddered, she
dashed forwad, push her students into a coner and covered
them with her own body. She died, but three girls in her
arms were saved.
6
Her name is Xiang Jian (向倩), newly graduated and worked as
an English teacher AT Longju Primary School. When the
earthquake rocked the building, she dragged two students,
who were rendered immobilized by the disaster, to flee
the shaking building. Yet before they reached the gate,
the walls fell down on them. When the rescuers
eventuallyt found her, they saw her body being snapped
into three sections, yet her arms still helding tight her
students.
Later
her father, a vice-principal at another primary school,
learned the news of his dauther's heroic death and was
heartbreaking. But he said, firmly, "I can
understand, as a teacher, she did what she should
do."
7
From the rubble of a collapsed buidling, the rescuers
found a man and a woman holding each other's arms that
formed a protective shelter for a little girl about 3
years of age. The pair were killed by the falling roof
but the girl was not hurt. When China was moved to tears
by the great love of her parents who sacrificend their
lives to save their child, the truth behind the story has
further touched the heart of the nation: the girl's
parents have returned to Sichuan from Guangzhou to search
for the toddler. Now the question is who are the deceased
man and woman in the rubble that have given their lives
to protect someone else's child.
(Sources
of original photos and info: 重庆晨报, 新华网 +)
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大难兴邦
A Nation
Resurrects by Facing up
Challenges
Chinese Premier
returned to the quake shattered
disaster area in Sichuan and
visited a school. He handwrote an
ancient Chinese proverb on the
blackborad that reads: challenges
and calamities can only help a
nation to resurrect.
The havoc
orchestrated by the international
Gang of Four - the United States
(Wang Hongwen 王洪文?), Britian
(Jiang Qing 江青?),
Germeny (Zhang Chunqiao 张春桥?) and
France (Yao Wenyuan 姚文元?) - and
the devastations associated with
the natural disasters have made
2008 a turning point where the
world discovers one China with
one aspiration.
When A Nation
United by Compassion
At 2:28pm
Monday, 19 May, China stood still
in silence for three minutes.
Later, it is found that during
that national mourning period,
the Google China's search log
displayed a near zero record, a
testimony to a nation that is
united in grief and by
compassion.
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