These are some of the true hereos, i have ever heard about.
I will always like to meet them once in my lifetime.
An earthquake, magnitude 8.0, struck Sichuan Province of CHina at 2:28PM, May 12,2008. The epicenter of the earthquake, Wenchuan, is about 90 miles from Chengdu. The earthquake released more power than 500 atomic bombs, 30 times more than the Kobe earthquake in japan, 1995. By May 19, there are more than 32,000 confirmed dead, more than 20,000 still missing, and more than4.7 million collapsed or heavily damaged.
Cities close to epicenter are flattened, whole mountains collapsed.
Devastation
Millions of people lost their beloved ones, their homes, their belongings. Yet there is no looting, no complaints, just people helping each other.
Within hours, people rushed to rescue. Blood donation lines run for 100 yards, and people waited hours to donate blood, within 24 hours, all storage bank ran out storage space. The highway to the eartquake struck city Dujianyang (20 mile from Chendgu ) was almost jammed one hour after the earthquake, not by people fleeing the aftershocks, but by volunteers, led by over 1,000 taxi drivers, came from Chengdu to rescue.
Chen Guanbiao, owner of a big construction company 15,0 miles from the disaster area, just 2 hour 30 minutes after the earthquake, started transporting 60 construction machineries and led 120 volunteers to rescue. they arrived at the disaster area 24 hours later, almost the same time as Army Engineer Corp.
Medical workers provided care under extreme conditions, they even delivered many new born babies on the parking lot.
Wen Jiabao (66), Chinese Prime Minister, boarded on a plane 30 minutes after the earthquake, and arrived in disasterarea in 2 hours. He has been the chief of the rescue operation since then, working almost around clock at the frontline with rescue workers.
11,000 paratroopers started boarding airplanes 2 hours after the earthquake. Despite heavy rain, high wind and thick cloud, they jumped from over 20,000 foot high to remote mountain areas where they did not even know if there woukld be a place for them to land. They first jumpe doff plane was Senior Colonel Li Zhenbo (51).
With roads buried b landslide and bad weather hammering air borne operations, a group of 600 soldiers and medical teams, let by Major General Xia Guofo (57), Commander in Chief of Sichuan Military District, walked 21 hours straight on foot in mountain area, carrying heavy relief supplies, risking landslide an falling rocks. They became the first group to arrive at the epicenter of the earthquake.
Soldiers and Rescue workers working around the clock to rescue people still buried. Unableto transport heavy machineries to the remote areas since roads are buried by landslides, they often have to use hands to move tons of concrete.
People are rushing to donate money, MAny rich people donated in millions, but no one can match Xu Chao (60), on the right. HE is a homeles in NAnjing, 1000 miles from the disaster area. He saw the news and went to donate 5 Yuan in the morning. He said people in disaster area were worse off then him because their lives were threatened. He came back in the afternoon, donated another 100 Yuan($14). He explained that all he ahd were pennies and dines, and he didn't want to waste volunteer workers' time to count them, so he went to bank to change to change everything he had into a big bill. This is from a man who doesn't have money to buy food for himself.
Song Xinying (3), pulled out from rubbble after being buried for 2 days. She was in critical condition and lost a leg, but survived. Her parents hold each other hands and shoulders face to face to make an arch to shield her from the falling building. Her parents did not make it out.
A 5 year old boy was rescued after being buried under rubbles for 24 hours. His left hand was broken, but he smiled and saluted to his rescuers. His smile made everybody cry.
Zhang Jiwang (11), carrying his sister Zhang HAn (3), walked 12 hours straight to flee the disaster center.
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Yuan Wentin (26), first grade teacher. When the earthquake struck, she rushed to carry her students from the classroom on th e3rd floor to the ground. She managed to pull out most of her students, but the building collapsed when she was trying to pull out the last few. At the last moment of her life, she was trying to use her body to shield the students from falling concrete.
This high school student was rescued from th ecollapsed building. She lost both legs, and her both hands are broken. The rescue workers were all in tears when they saw this. She smiled to them : "Be Brave !"
This baby, after being buried over 24 hours, miraculously, was rescued unscratched. He is about 3-4 months old, an dhis mother kneeled down, pinned her head and hands on the ground to sheild him from falling concrete, and milked him. His mother did not make it out. A rescue worker found his mom's cell phone in his wrapper. It had a text message left by his mother." Dear child, if you survive, please remember, Mom loves you forever...."
May God Bless Them All....
