Originally Posted by
portals
I hear ya, DP, and it is not a girl thing. There are many guys out here that feel empathy as well, and I am one of them. I have always had a fondness for oriental people for reasons that I really don't want to get into here. For one, don't take this personally, but I think Japanese women are some of the most beautiful creatures God ever put on this earth, and the men over there are about as nice as anybody you could ever meet. I think much of the inner beauty these people have today comes from the very hard legacy of suppression they experienced during the reign of war lords. If you ever watched the TV mini-series 'Sho-gun", you would know what I mean. They were not shown any mercy at all.
Be this as it may, if there was anything I could do to help these people on a personal basis, I would. Alas, I don't have the financial wherewithall to do so, or right this very minute I would be in northern Japan helping those people the best I could. Unfortunately, I can't be, so the best I can do is the same thing everyone else is doing. Share in their misery by watching, and hoping their turmoil and distress comes to a rapid end.