Cool Headed Dad

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Wow.  A dramatic story from Haiti – a father of two, trapped and seriously injured in a collapsed building, kept calm, treated his own wounds, improvised solutions to immediate problems, then wrote bloodstained letters of Christian counsel to his sons.  He was pulled from the wreckage after 65 hours. Writing the notes to his wife and children wasn’t [...]

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Husband to the Rescue

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

The husband of an aid worker in Haiti drove a hundred miles in answer to his wife’s call for help, then dug her out from underneath a foot of concrete rubble.  The Associated Press story is here. One does wonder where the men in the neighborhood were.  A hundred mile drive in Haiti isn’t like I-95 [...]

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