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...Spraggon knew how lucky they were. They don't know what happened to the Swedish child after she was rescued or whether her family survived. Tens of thousands of Europeans - including an especially large number escaping the wintertime darkness of Scandinavia - were enjoying the Asian sunshine when the tsunami hit. Hundreds are confirmed dead - Swedes, Norwegians, Finns, Frenchmen, Britons, Germans, Danes and on and on - with thousands still missing. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen spoke of "an incomprehensible tragedy of national...
...Simon Atlee, 33, who was on vacation in Phuket with his girlfriend, Czech model Petra Nemcova, 25. Nemcova suffered a broken pelvis, but survived by clinging to a palm tree and floating in the water amid bodies and debris for eight hours. Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl watched the tsunami from the third-floor balcony of his hotel room in Thalpe, Sri Lanka. "I recalled images from the war, which I experienced as a boy," Kohl wrote in the tabloid Bild. "It appeared as if after a heavy bombing raid." Amid so much death and heartbreak, there were also miracles...
...Lutheran World Relief Will help rebuild infrastructure damaged by the tsunami and provide aid and counseling to victims...
Many relief organizations have set up Websites to take donations for aid to victims of the South Asia tsunami. Below is a partial listing; in addition, several blogs, such as The Command Post and Tsunami Help, also provide good information on where and how to donate. You can also go to Network for Good to donate to multiple aid organizations...
...UNICEF South Asia Tsunami Relief Fund of the United Nations? International Children?s Emergency Fund...