How do we define integrity? How is courage measure? I think we all would see it in different manners. This group of 50 people in Japan have really made the decision to make a sacrifice with their own lives for the best for others. There is certainly something to say about that. Measure as such rise the bar for me. It's the acts that some are willing to do for the best interest of society.
There choice to stay and be exposed the these reactors is something that is exceptional. We see them within our military. We see them within other areas. We see them in all walks of life as there are heros that are still out there I believe. I don't think all the heros are of just an old bunch of people as there are heros within each and every area of our society.
What makes up a Hero? I think it's measure within the acts they do. We don't know these 50 people over there in Japan but what they are doing is giving there own life or making a sacrifice for the sake of the lives of other people.
I think that still stands for something.
I'm sure many are doing it because they want their family to continue to live on in Japan. Sad to say but once again parts of Japan may not be habitable.
ReplyDeleteYet the act is one that is of the upmost of courage.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. In the eyes of their family and the country they have brought great pride through their bravery. There is no greater honor then to give your life to protect those of others in the name of your country. This will stay with families for generations. I also know when this is all done there will be a statue erected to honor the men and women who stayed behind, those who died during the attempt to contain it etc. There will also be in each town a memorial erected to everyone who died in the quake and tsunami. The Japanese honor their dead and their heros
ReplyDeletei have heard that the original 50 volunteered to go into the reactor-----it is an old way of life amigo---save the next generation----the indigenous cultures have always lived in order to preserve the next generation---we listen si?
ReplyDeleteYeah there is a great scholar and I hope I can find him and what he just said on all of this.
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ReplyDeleteI agree most there is tremendous writer as well as speaker and it's not up right now but what he said was so superb on this his name is Rex Murphy.
ReplyDeleteHe was speaking on Integrity and Determination and it's not avail till Friday.
http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/indepthanalysis/rexmurphy/story/2011/03/17/thenational-rexmurphy-110317.html
Every country has them I don't think it would just happen in Japan I think it's a human quality Iamnada. Si.
ReplyDeletesi amigo--i believe he speaks on the community of japan----it is something that so many of us have lost--community---we have very narrow views on family and community---the indigenous understood the interdependence of all and also the acceptance of circumstances---it is a viable source of survival that too many cultures today have forgotten----it's funny--but some of us have more of a sense of community here on our PC than we have in our physical surroundings--the people of japan teach si?
ReplyDeleteIf you were able to get the feed there that is something as yes he is. And I don't believe it's forgotten. And you know me I will see something and I am not much to write on other things except something that is of worth as this is. Life...Vida and I am not down I am just watching this all either unfold or whatever it shall. As there is something of much worth happening when there are acts as such. Some do and some don't. It's part of that human condition.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june11/satellites_03-17.html
ReplyDeleteIt really is a true giving of one's self these people are doing which is more Christan than most people who claim to be christian are doing may God bless them and save them from all harm
ReplyDeleteYeah, this has sure brought out the very best in people. It was always there, that goodness and integrity. I bet if you had to make such a sacrifice yourself, you might be very very close to doing the same thing. It isn't too hard, to do when you really-truly deeply love someone as you love yourself. And that is hard work, and deep stuff to do. But it can be done, huh! Glad to see you are feeling better, and stronger and finding the positives, it is hard to do, to look at the devastation and not get down and blue over it. But if you got tears on your face, as long as you get up, and go forward....that is all that is required. Get up, and buck the wind, it hurts but it is necessary.
ReplyDeleteSalaam brother Jack.
ReplyDeleteGreat work they do. Some fight for freedom in Africa and the middle east and some others fight for better conditions for human beings and even other creatures. I hope the problems be solved there soon.
Thanks!
I do believe Japan will emerge stronger -- one only has to look at Hiroshima today to see the strength of these people. They have overcome what could have been insurmountable, and have set examples for others. It is with great respect we have seen them do so.
ReplyDeleteThey are heroes in the true sense of the word.
ReplyDeletethere are plenty of heroes ..in these tragedy zones..many ..unsung
ReplyDelete"making a sacrifice for the sake of the lives of other people" that's a hero!
ReplyDeleteKen thought to consider. There was one priest when we arrived back into Canada. I was a kid and listened. After my father declared what he had done all his life the old priest retorted with" That was a useless life". My father didnt say much what he left off with the priest was in all honesty, " If it was not for the likes of me and my collegues - you would not be practicing religion. I am not kidding with this one as when he said that to this elder priest. He walked away with something to think on as at that time they have done more in alliances to prevail the freedoms.
ReplyDeleteI kinda think this older priest thought about it. Yet never came back. Very true story.
Yet he was one of many. Not just one. So be it as I thought at that age of 17.
It has I don't know whom you are but with Japan there is still hope there. I would not yet give up as right now there are things right now. I know this is deep and on a weekend. YOU know what I mean. If in concert a few nations not one can tend to two different situations and render them in the best harmonious manner.
ReplyDeleteI have not I idea whom you are but mankind has just raised the bar.
I wish to say this. Hillary Clinton could have left office. She didnt. She is.....I don't know how to define her but in these times she is as she is really doing the upmost. I really think there is a place in history for her. On there other hand I think there is a place there for her. Diplomacy - she defines it better than the ...........
Salaam Ali.
ReplyDeleteThis is a first in a long time. I understand what your sayhing here Ali. Time has took a change. The winds have blown to over there in which we have talked about in earlier occarsions. There was once in our history a thing called the " League of Nation ". Your education I am sure you know it better than I. There after came the what we have now. Pehaps we need some new international component. But. One thing prevails right now and that is of the United Nations. Perhaps there is a need for a new thing. But we do leave and forget Africa. You and I both know why that is.
Yet with Japan we know and it's decisive. And with Libya.........lets see how long one and many dictators are there. I know you know english and I will say this. They might have thought that they could kill off people - but when they started, it was not Obama. It was a reactionary of special missions within the Air Force.
Meanwhile there are some enjoying the beach! I love Hawaii. How about you?
Your friend from then and now.
Patty yeah it is but yet the greatest hero is that of the making that stays silent. I know one. I am gifted to know one in this case.
ReplyDeleteNancy. I am not sure where this falls in the bible. Yet it is. The one that walks away from all that they have regardless of how much or how less.
ReplyDeleteThe one that acts as directed in the goodwill of many. The one that has a creed so that we all do have what we have or does it in the attempt to ensure
that life is better - sacrificial or not. I don't know regardless of technology where we would be here - there - anywhere without that sacrifice which you mention is made. There was a movie made on a man. He did his dues and then was looking for life.
It's an old movie called "Man on Fire". It stars Denzel Washington. Yet
There are heroes outside of this area. There are those that have chose to be a hero. So a hero is not based on what is now. A hero is something that has it's own definition. Your a hero, from what I know Arielle is a Hero, as well as Caroline is a Hero. I read rants. Yet WHAT IS A HERO. It's as you just said,
"making a sacrifice for the sake of the lives of other people". Be the hero you are and notice the others whom are.
This is applicable to this post yeah. I will say this much. A fanatic will be down before the end of the weekend. The last time he acted up in the Lybia.....heroes set off a bomb 500 yards from his house. Silence prevailed.
With Japan we have come to all being the same yet what country has went through a Tsunami, Earthquake, then climate change. all really in a manner of minutes. Yet they all abide by a code of determination of the likes that we shall never see in our life time. Those are heroes. Not this day are they in your city nor mine.
We still do have a world with Heros.....
We do yes
ReplyDeleteAll do respect your a hero Patty - you know what I mean.
ReplyDeleteI know, my God, that you test men to see if they are good, for you enjoy good men. I have done all this with good motives, and I have watched your people offer their gifts willingly and joyously.
ReplyDelete1 Chronicles 29:17
That is Integrity.
hugs tight, Jack. :)
I test men? And you have watched ? Where does this fit in? Pray tell?
ReplyDeleteHelping one another ... no creed ... not asking any in return. Just a heart that is there ready to extend help ...
ReplyDeleteYeah thanks I get what your mean now. See words sometimes are rather hard. :)
ReplyDeletehugs there. :)
ReplyDeleteNot me but those that show the measures that ensure life is life.
ReplyDeleteYet accepted.
http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/indepthanalysis/rexmurphy/story/2011/03/17/thenational-rexmurphy-110317.html
ReplyDeleteSeemingly the news here takes 24 hours but Rex makes sence.
ReplyDeleteI went to his site. I love the last pics of a couple. It says all how love and dignity stands.
ReplyDelete"Dignity and Determination"
ReplyDeleteMarch 17, 2011
I look at the pictures and I'm tempted to say “the poor Japanese.” Not in any condescending way, or out of the detachment allowed by distance, but in a kind of sad wonder and admiration.
What an unutterable battering the poor Japanese, and their country, have taken in the last week or so.
Not enough to have a titanic earthquake - a magnitude 9; not enough half an hour later to have a ferocious 3-storey high tsunami roar with immense violence into the northern part of the island; not enough also, almost for cruel ornament, to have a volcano erupt; not enough to have the weather turn on them just then with snow and freezing temperatures in the area when some 500,000 are displaced; all of this blended in with the unfolding, high tension suspense over the crisis at its nuclear reactors.
Japan is being brutally hammered on so many different fronts, it is difficult to find any realistic comparison for what its citizens are enduring, s the world's attention whiplashes from the acknowledged deaths and disaster, to the unfolding and ominous story of the reactors. Any one of these disasters would – temporarily - smash most countries, and summon the sympathy of all the world besides. But multiple, concurrent and overwhelming crises, against the backdrop of the economic one which, for the moment only, can be passed by, robs the mind of the power truly to comprehend the scope of what is going on.
And still amid all of this, amid their own shock, grief, alarm and pain, there are so many stories coming out of Japan of their quiet, deep resilience, their stoicism and their willingness, where possible, to opt for order and calm. We hear of people lining up for relief supplies, or read of others volunteering to distribute supplies in devastated areas, absent aid or government workers. When a cash register in a store stopped working – electrical failure – customers, in this context, returned items to their shelves.
Japanese culture is a great garment worked over the ages, sheltering them now from at least some of the awful cold.
Maybe it's a sad paradox, but I sense because Japan and its people are setting such a standard, because they are, within the boundaries of what is possible there now, doing all that they can do with minimal posturing or display, the international community is not as alert to, not as vigorous and swift and passionate in its response, as it could be.
The earthquake, the tsunami, the volcano, the reactors, the weather, the economy – they have ripped the island of Japan and shattered the country in ways it will take years to repair and rebuild. But not even these horrific and combined forces have broken the great code of community; of self-discipline and dignity. The citizens of Japan are setting wonderfully high standards in their determination and fortitude, even as they must be reeling from personal tragedies of the deepest pathos and sorrow over the partial ruin of their very country and the loss of so many loved ones."
Please bare with me as this is something I am most interested with and in.
ReplyDeleteWe could only offer sincere prayers for their loved ones. Yet I know from history they could make it. True they have that strong determination and keen perseverance.
ReplyDeleteThey shall and I found another way to post.
ReplyDeleteI think after this I shall go the music route or call it a day.
... Jack it's night time there laughs* goodnight then. :)
ReplyDeleteA good night to ya.
ReplyDeleteGood write Jack. These people that are willingly sacrificing their lives to attempt to save others are in my eyes Heroes. May God guide their hands and take them into His loving arms.
ReplyDeleteYeah it's not the greatest times that are happening but yes they certainly do Cille.
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