The article I read about was the parents in China who were protesting after the earthquake that happened last month on May 12, 2008. They were protesting because they think the schools were poorly constructed and they don't think they should have collapsed like they did. Today on June 3, 2008 the police had to drag more than 100 parents who were protesting. Their children went to a school where more then 270 students died after the schools collapsed on them.
After looking at the collapsed school buildings they found that no steel reinforcing bars had been used in construction, only iron wire. The death toll from this horrible earthquake keeps increasing. There are 69,107 people dead and 18,230 people still missing. Also this earthquake left 5 million people homeless. There are many soldiers there helping these people and three days ago a transport was carrying 19 people, 14 of them people injured in the quake, when it flew into fog and turbulence and crashed Saturday. There are thousands of soldiers who have been searching for this military helicopter.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
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This is a very sad story. It was also very interesting the way you put it. This article also showed how much soldiers really do for us. That they risk their lives for others. Poor little innocent kids who do nothing do not deserve to live their lives like this.
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