U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Save the Children: A Vision Amid the Tsunami Wreckage"

U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Save the Children: A Vision Amid the Tsunami Wreckage": "Save the Children: A Vision Amid the Tsunami Wreckage
6/21/2005 4:00:00 PM



To: National Desk and Opinion Editor
Contact: Mike Kiernan of Save the Children, 202-261-4686 or mkiernan@dc.savechildren.org
WASHINGTON, June 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following commentary by Charles MacCormack was released today by Save the Children on the 6th month anniversary of the recent tsunami: A Vision Amid the Wreckage
By Charles MacCormack
If you were swept away by a tsunami, clinging to life on a flimsy piece of wood amid the surging water and wreckage, what image would help you to survive? For nine-year-old Sri Rahmawati, of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, it was an image of a golden orb against a blue background. It reminded her, she says, of heaven. "