This Day
That Date –Tsunami Memories
This day that date- I was there. I didn’t want
to be. I didn’t even know what I was getting into. They didn’t ask for
volunteers, they just asked “coming?”. So I went. Many are the day, nights
especially, when I had wished I had had the courage or the presence of mind to
say “No, I wont come”. But I went anyway. I went as a group with my classmates
from college. All the way down we talked about it but we didn’t realize. We didn’t
realize what we were going to see there. No one had any idea. A good thing I might
say. Even our wildest nightmares wouldn’t have prepared us for what we saw. We reached
late- after all Cuddalore is quite a distance from Chennai. And by the time we
got there it was all over- except to line up the bodies for identification and
then burial. That’s all we did- checked the bodies to make sure they were dead.
All the bodies which the sea washed back to us- back to land. The same cruel
sea which had come in to take them away that morning and buried them in one huge
mass of water in seconds. Yes, I was there. I was there on Tsunami Day- 26th
December……a day etched in memory forever.
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