My blog: This Indian Ocean disaster has become quite personal.
It's no longer numbers.
However great the numbers.
100,000?
120,000?
No! It's one person to me
A Sri Lanka next-door neighbor,
living in my apartment building. Over the
past week he's been out of it. I can't blame him.
Now in a sense, I'm a personal witness to a tragedy;
atragedy of anxiety, cause my neighbor doesn't know
if he's lost friends, relatives...
I know that it's not just Sri Lankans or Thais or Indians
or Indonesians...
THOUSANDS of Americans are missing...
Large numbers of Canadians too.
it could be an [American] death toll greater than 9/11.