Me and the man with the iPad

[xchrom]

http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2011/07/29/me-and-the-man-with-the-ipad/



I usually bring just a notebook and a pen because it seems somehow more subtle than a recorder. I drain bottled water or hide it before I get out of the car or the plane. In Ethiopia a few years ago I was telling a funny story to some other journalists as our car pulled up near a church where we had been told people were arriving looking for food.

We got out and began walking towards the place, me still telling the tale, shouting my mouth off, struggling to get to the punch line through my laughter and everybody else’s.

Then there was this sound, a low rumbling thing that came to meet us.

I could feel it roll across the ground and up through my boots. I stopped talking, my laughter died, I grabbed the arm of the person beside me: “What is that?” And I realized. It was the sound of children crying. There were enough children crying that — I’ll say it again — I could feel it in my boots. I was shamed by my laughter.

[butterfly77]

1. Kicked&Recommended..

;( :cry:

[xchrom]

2. i know, huh? nt

[tavalon]

3. I don't think you really got a good synopsis of this story

but it is an important and brutally sad story.

[bertman]

4. SWEET JESUS!!! That is heart breaking. REC. nt

[xchrom]

5. Thanks. It's an important story. Nt