Dear All,
I want to share the follwing article (written by a freind) with you.
At 2:28 in the afternoon, we all stopped... I mean "we" all stopped... almost every human being in China stopped and bowed our heads... ships at sea stopped and all personnel arrived on deck... factories stopped and all personnel took off their hats and lowered their heads... police, army, TV personnel , people on the street, rescuers in the quake zone, children in the schools, young adults in the universities, business men in the fortune towers of Shanghai, heads of state and those that govern stopped... all of China came to a stand still... and we all collectively lowered our heads... and the warning sirens across this big diverse country sounded... they screamed a mournful tone for the dead and dying... for the children without families... for the heroes that gave their lives that one or two other people might have a chance to live... for the school teachers buried beneath the devastation, clutching their students in an eternal embrace... for the old soldier covered in dust and soot carrying one last baby to safety... each with tears streaming furrows across their grief etched faces... for the kind ones giving most of the little they have to perhaps effect some positive impact on the broken heart of China. Never have I seen a country so caught up in the fever of free enterprise and capital gain revert to the fundamental good that is near the heart of all mankind... �Not a sound except the screaming wail of the sirens... from the Yellow sea to the borders of Macho... from the North Western stretches of arid Xinjiang to the lush greenery of Kunming, from the frigid reaches of Heilongjiang to the tropics of Hainan...all of China silently wept. As the mournful tone subsided we all turned from this moment back to the task at hand... but with a melancholy that will not soon be removed nor a resolve that will soon be daunted... �If you ever wondered about the Chinese people and the "stuff" they are made of... I tell you, it is the grandest stuff... an unflinching commitment to a better tomorrow and a will to face adversity as a people... as a nation. �So those of you in this big, big country that value life by the money gained and the scam that you can inflict on your fellow man, you have no lasting place here... you will be ferreted out and displaced by better men... a better people... people who's values have been proven by fire... people made of a forged steel that will bend but will not break... the Chinese of today and their heirs of tomorrow...this is the stuff that China is made of...nothing more... nothing less...
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