Sometimes the population of a whole nation needs some heroes. Japan hopes, that the “Fukushima 50″ will protect the island against a nuclear catastrophe. Maybe 140 firemen join from Tokyo with heavy equipment. I’ve heard, that in Chernobyl were “3940 deaths from radiation-induced cancer and leukemia among emergency workers …” (salon.com)
photo by kilometro 00 / Enrico Colussi, Treviso, Italy on Flickr, sent to my group BLOG IT!
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Flickr Comments 
es sind ja viel mehr, da immer wieder neue 50 die alten 50 verstrahlten ablösen –
in diesem zusammenhang sei erwähnt dass sich im 2.weltkrieg aus dem japanischen piloten als kamikaze flieger für japan geopfert haben
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze
wolfgang
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ich habe den Eindruck, dass man, um auf dieser Insel weiterhin zu bleiben, prinzipiell eine Art von Kamikaze-Mentalität benötigt. Wie sagte doch Nietzsche: Irrsinn ist etwas, was bei einzelnen eher selten auftritt, bei Gruppen, Parteien, Völkern aber die Regel ist …
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related:
http://olderime.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/japanese-eyes/#comment-63
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ogni giorno lottiamo, nel nostro piccolo, per una vita migliore…
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It cannot be easy!
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kilometro 00 / Enrico Colussi, the photographer, read his comment above:
ogni giorno lottiamo, nel nostro piccolo, per una vita migliore…
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me, trying to translate:
every day we struggle in our small, for a better life …
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related:
http://cocomino.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/what-i-found-not-good-or-good-last-week/#comment-746
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related:
http://thelaughinghousewife.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/under-no-illusion/#comment-6289
you (thelaughinghousewife, UK) wrote: “Yet all we see on the news are polite bows as a soldier helps an elderly woman discover the body of her dead mother; lengthy queues outside food shops; people willingly taking on dangerous jobs for the greater good…”
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frizztext: compare that with the behavior in Haiti, where the UN was forced to give food only to female persons, because the male were not able to stand in a row …
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related:
http://cocomino.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/my-mothers-thought/#comment-763
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related:
http://euzicasa.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/nuclear-crisis-highlights-operators-checkered-pastby-david-fitzpatrick-and-drew-griffin-cnn-special-investigations-unitmarch-23-2011-159-p-m-edt/comment-page-1/#comment-356
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related:
http://cocomino.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/describe-the-biggest-risk-youve-ever-taken/#comment-910
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawagoe,_Saitama
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related:
http://jessejacaphotography.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/weekly-photo-challenge-one-2/dsc_7223-lr-web/#comment-146
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P.S.:
question: human beings had their evacuation near the nuclear power plant,
but what’s about the cats and dogs?
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