Loss

What has happened in Japan is just heart breaking - so much destruction, loss, and pain.
I heard a reporter ask "Who sustained the most loss?" and it got me thinking...

In a natural disaster such as this, you have bullet trains that hold several hundred people vanish. Whole apartment buildings that could hold just as many people flattened. I heard that there are 9,500 people missing in one town alone.

Who sustained the most loss?
Instead of looking for the answer in body counts and material damages, let's explore the question in another way.

Who sustained the most loss?

Possibly the little orphaned toddler who cries for her mother, who will never come.
How about the nine year old little boy that is trapped in his fallen home with the bodies of his family members, or the father who searches for a safe place for his children to sleep as he searches for food and clean water.

Loss is relevant in this tragic situation.

My heart and prayers go out to all of those on the other side of the Pacific.