China and Myanmar

National Public Radio ran a segment yesterday evening in which one of their anchorpeople, who was interviewing someone in central China, actually experienced the noise, shaking, and swaying of the earthquake there, some hundred miles from the epicenter. She then reported on going to a middle school and watching parents identify the bodies of their daughters (China earthquake aftermath above top). We got a report yesterday at work that Simon Park, the Korean-American interim head of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, had flown to Thailand, meeting with relief agencies there, and trying to move on to Myanmar, where so far the military government has let almost no relief agencies in, threatening to turn the death of tens of thousands into hundreds of thousands, without emergency food, clean water, or public health measures (Myanmar cyclone aftermath pictured above below) (at least a hundre thousand may be dead in China also). Let's keep the disaster-torn people of Asia in our prayers.