A Look Back at Japan's Disaster

In this March 22, 2011 file photo, family members pay their final respects during a burial ceremony for the March 11 tsunami victims in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. “You never know what is going to touch you. For me, it was a group of families wearing pajamas and track suits on a snowy morning in Higashimatsushima, one of the hard-hit coastal cities. They were lined up along trenches dug by backhoe in a city dump. The soldiers filled the trenches one by one, lowering in plain wooden coffins numbered with magic marker. An official called out names into a bullhorn. The families watched silently. The town crematorium had been destroyed, and the bodies had to be buried before spring came. There were too many for proper rites, and the people had nothing to offer their dead. Everything would have to be dug up later”. – Jay Alabaster, AP reporter. (Photo by Mark Baker/AP Photo)
A Look Back at Japan's Disaster
   
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