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Heartwarming and tragedy can occur simultaneously. Example?

I just saw a clip of American firefighters walking through an airport in Australia who were being applauded and cheered by the locals standing there to welcome them. It is a very very sad thing but even in their sadness the Aussies are able to show appreciation. SIGH. God Bless all of them.

Posted - January 10, 2020
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  • 3719
    Yes, it is very heart-warming to see; especially now we have just learnt the wind has pushed two already-huge fires to combine. 

    Let us hope these fires will soon be under control.

    And what then? Well, the bush and forest will regenerate themselves in due course, but whether the animal life will recover fully is another matter. First and foremost though we can only think of those who lost everything, and those who have lost their lives.
      January 10, 2020 3:14 PM MST
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  • 113301
    It doesn't seem to be getting any better Durdle. Eventually in time the fires will die out leaving behind an enormous environmental and societal nightmare. More to come? Meanwhile life goes on elsewhere. Too many don't give a rat's a** what happens elsewhere if it does not affect them directly. Too busy with self me me me me me. That is not heartwarming. It's disgusting. Thank you for your reply! :)
      January 11, 2020 3:08 AM MST
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  • 3719
    Yes - I think the rest of the world will  move on and sort of forget as the fires are no longer reported, while the Australians are still putting their lives and livelihoods back together.

    I don't know how much of that effect is deliberate callousness or just that so much is happening for good or bad - especially bad - everywhere that many people no longer really notice it. It was all over the News, then something else is suddenly all over the News, then...

    Even at home... Parts of Northern England suffered severe floods a month or so ago; but how many living in this country but a long way from that region, will remember the village name "Fishlake" in December this year despite it being so prominent in the News only a few weeks ago? 

    It's not that they choose not to care, but there comes a point when there is so much to care about in places they have never seen and know little about, that it all seems to merge into a sense of hopeless, depressing muddle they can do nothing about. It does not help the victims, but it does help the spectators either.
      January 11, 2020 2:57 PM MST
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