WATCH After The Wave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFKWg5eCVJw
KHAO LAK: The grass stained brown by salt disappeared after 18 months, turning the land north of Phuket green again. But the sadness, invisible and overpowering, lingered.
It could not be moved by generous spirits, or by the clang and clank of rebuilding.
Sadness covered the strip of coast north and south of Khao Lak in an invisible layer, permeating the hearts and minds of everyone who survived the 2004 tsunami and the friends and relatives of those who came looking for loved ones.
Yet with the passage of time, that invisible layer of sadness grows thinner.
Tomorrow's commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, involving thousands, is expected to cause some of the remaining sadness to evaporate.
One of these days, it will disappear completely. Nobody can say when that will be.
Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister looked over last minute preparations today for Friday's healing ceremony.
The Prime Minister, envoys from many of the 40-plus countries who suffered, the 14 governors of southern provinces and hundreds of relatives and friends of victims will take part as darkness falls and the giant wave is remembered.
There will be prayers.
As has been written, the whole world, and especially the Andaman coast, is divided between those who do not wish to remember the tsunami, and those who can never forget it.
With every crash of a wave upon the beaches, nature still applies its own chant, adding salt . . . and a little sadness.
WATCH After The Wave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFKWg5eCVJw
Khun Chutima thank you for this article and the link to the video. I can still hear the screaming, the noise, the smells and the terror of that fateful day. Then the smells and the death like state the living found themselves in, looking for friends, family and loved ones, in the days and weeks, that followed.
The tsunami should never ever be forgotten, but remembered and prepared for, if there ever should be another one to hit the coast here again. To all of you, God bless you all.
Posted by Robin S on December 26, 2014 11:48