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Good luck to the Chilean miners

post #1 of 7
10/12/10 at 5:41am
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I'm sure that I'm not alone in wishing these guys a successful rescue and a happy life thereafter.

It always seems to take a bad situation to bring the best out in humanity. Times where people temporarily forget their petty squabbles and devote their thoughts to the well being of their fellow man. What a shame it is that takes an unfortunate event for this to happen.

I don't envy these guys their ordeal, nor their rescue either, and I hope that everything goes well and they all make it out ok. I'm not a person of faith, but my thoughts are with them.

Good luck to them all.
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post #2 of 7
10/12/10 at 6:05am
Well said, JC. I really admire the way they seem to have kept their spirits up in the face of adversity. The conditions down there must be unbearable. Respect and best wishes to them all.
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post #3 of 7
10/12/10 at 6:22am
Hear, hear! I wish them all the best.
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post #4 of 7
10/12/10 at 12:18pm
My best wishes to them and their families
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post #5 of 7
10/12/10 at 6:34pm
Nice post. Let's join in wishing them a safe return... and also a successful re-integration to the surface world. No small task, given what they've been through.
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post #6 of 7
10/12/10 at 6:44pm
This story is one of the most awe-inspiring I have seen in a long, long time. Best wishes to the miners.
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post #7 of 7
10/13/10 at 6:51am
It is an awe-inspiring story. Those guys kept their heads, and their spirits up, surviving an ordeal way underground that most of us can't imagine. Charles Krauthammer last night referred to it as a resurrection story (ordeal/re-emergence). It stirs the mythical & cthonic soup. And it does seem like a re-birth, going through the long passage in that capsule back up to the surface. Ody makes a good point about re-integration, too.
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