Friday, October 02, 2009

Mom in tsunami: I saw my daughter floating away

This was a brief video story on CNN.com. The headline made me sick and I'm not sure why I opened the link. I can't get the child's last words out of my head. I hope this mother's faith is larger than mine is. I would not survive the night.

Taitasi Fitiao was holding her six-year-old daughter's hand when a tsunami
wave crashed onto their coastal village in American Samoa.
"I held her hand.
The wave got us and that's when her hand just left mine and I could hear her
say, 'Mom, please.' And then I saw her, I saw her floating away. And I knew
right then that she was gone, she was taken from us."

You can read the rest of the article here.