they didn't show overcrowding on the boats searchibg for living
survivors, and could have easily carried a proper suit to put on to
take the dead out of the water to put on a small boat that could have
been tied to their rescue boat. the longer the bodies are left there
the more diseased the water will become.
--- Martha Krieg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have no quarrel with the bulk of the criticism regarding the
> slowness of the help, the failure to provide proper evacuation to
> those without their own transport, etc.
>
> But I do take strong exception to the view that rescue workers/troops
>
> who did not remove bodies because they had instructions to take care
> of the living were being insensitive. Those people are going to be
> traumatized for years by what they've had to deal with. You've seen
> it on TV; they've had to *wor*k in the stench and crippling heat,
> risk their own health in the putrid waters, and put up with being
> fired on by the people they are trying to help. They were working
> extremely long shifts trying to help the living. If they had instead
> (and it would have been instead, not in addition, because there are
> limits to human endurance) picked up bodies and allowed still more
> living people to die because they were not found in time, the
> criticism would have also been overwhelming - and justified. Yes,
> respect for the dead and simple sanitation require that bodies be
> dealt with - but not at the cost of ignoring the desperate living.
> --
>
from susan in tennessee,u.s.a.
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