Remember Shigeru Yokosawa

[karadinart]

60-year-old hospital administrator, Shigeru Yokosawa, set to retire in April. After the tsunami warning, Yokosawa to found the satellite phone on the first floor of his hospital. Satellite phones are vital lines of communication after a natural disaster because phone lines are usually knocked out.

Yokosawa got the phone and moments before a massive wave swallowed him, tossed it to a colleague, who ran to the roof. Seconds later, the tsunami engulfed the hospital, because of his sacrifice, patients and staff who fled to the roof of the hospital were rescued, and then set up a makeshift clinic to help other survivors.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/28/japan.tsunami.hospital/index.html?hpt=T2

Comments

[sildil]

Heartbreakingly sad - and more tragic because there are so MANY stories that are like this one.

[hideincarnate.livejournal.com]

That's very sad...I wish there were more stories of rescue and survival, just to help balance how tragic this disaster was.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I try to balance both, but we have to remember that everyone can be a hero, even in the smallest things.