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Heartbreaking Photo from the 7.8 Chinese Earthquake

weirdasianews.com — Old school buildings were the first structures to collapse.Hundreds if not thousands of children were killed.

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  • debdon, on 05/18/2008, -0/+7how many of us just change the channel or turn the page?i'm afraid we've become numb.thanks for the reminder
    • etherreal, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2What do you expect us to do? This is the reminder that "***** happens". No matter how much planning you do, people will still die.
  • Koookie, on 05/18/2008, -0/+19Ouch. Suddenly it's not just statistics anymore.
    • Buckeye17, on 05/19/2008, -8/+1Wooohooo!!! Less demand for oil = lower gas prices.
  • mohabias, on 05/19/2008, -0/+11I'm glad the Chinese are handling this better than the Burmese (Myanmarese?) are handling their situation.
    • etherreal, on 05/19/2008, -0/+5Or the US did during Katrina.
      • jmpeagle, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2The U.S. screwed up Katrina, but it still isn't as bad as what the junta in Burma are doing to their own people
    • jmpeagle, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2the only source I could find is Wikipedia, and they don't even source this information, so it's probably wrong.

      Correspondence of Myanmar government usage and British usage:
      Myanmar (n.) = Burma
      Myanma (adj.) = Burmese
      Bamar (n.) = Burman
      Bama (adj.) = Burman
  • NaziHatinChimp, on 05/19/2008, -0/+9:(
  • db0255, on 05/19/2008, -0/+6i think the olympics will be extra special for them this year. imagine if we had our summer olympics a month after katrina or 9/11.
    • geneusutwerk, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2There would have been an American pridexplosion.
    • vosik, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1you did have you winter olympics in salt lake city in few months after 9/11.
      and it was american pridexplosion
  • ajf291, on 05/19/2008, -0/+0depressing
  • micro23, on 05/19/2008, -0/+4This is almost as rememberable as the piles of shoes from the Holocaust. Images like this you tend not to forget.

    Truly sad....

  • badassninja, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2oh... *****.
  • lazybat, on 05/19/2008, -0/+3never seen a sadder display of school bags.... God help the parents ...
  • bicyclethief, on 05/19/2008, -1/+3Man, not even one Spongebob in there.
  • JoeB4ever, on 05/19/2008, -5/+1ugh, I hate depressing topics that I can't make jokes about...
    • rrbest, on 05/19/2008, -0/+3Wholesale LOT OF 40 Colorful Childrens School Bags P Buy it Now $49.99 Free 42m

      I hate myself.
  • SeaweedWater, on 05/19/2008, -7/+1Those poor backpacks.
  • Davoidbot, on 05/20/2008, -0/+0 This is so sad, these orange people are robbing children of their backpacks and no one is there to stop them.
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