Reply #10: Allow me to be the first ;)

[iverglas]

No - thank you!

Thank you for letting the Vancouver team in when we were sitting up here in front of our TVs grinding our teeth and clenching our fists in frustration and outrage at how much of nothing was being done to help the survivors. We couldn't do anything ourselves, and this one little effort -- no matter who was doing it, "us" or anyone else, in fact -- made us at least think that *something* was being done.

And of course it did give us a small sense of doing "our" bit, even those of us a couple of thousand miles away who'd never paid taxes in Vancouver. And it did give us pride in our country, that it was doing the right thing, no doubt about it. Not that anybody should really be proud of doing the right thing, but it's just kind of the opposite of being ashamed of not doing it.

And thank you for participating with us in an undertaking of international, people-to-people solidarity, and solidifying that undertaking by naming it and acknowledging it and making it public for the world to see.

And oh yeah -- you're welcome! Any time, eh?