Honor

It's been interesting watching how all of the events related to Japan and Libya have played out the last couple of days.  For about 7-8 days everything was about Japan and the nuclear reactors, now I hardly see anything about that but I keep hearing about the air strikes in Libya by the Allied forces and the controversies over it.  It's interesting to see how the media deals with news, interesting, but not unexpected.  I'm still thinking about Japan, I still want to go and help if I can.  For right now I don't foresee a way to get over there.  Oil prices are still high from what's going on in the Middle East which is having a strong effect on the price of an airplane ticket.  Even if I were able to procure a ticket I would still have to weigh whether the health side effects of possibly being near radiation is worth it... I'm not sure I'm going to choose to buy a ticket to radiation though.  I'm still waiting to see how things progress but Japan's government sure hasn't helped in assuring me that things are under control or that the government is being honest and straightforward with their citizens.  I have a feeling that the atomic situation is a bit more than we're led to believe, at least the Japanese are led to believe.  Everyone in the US seems to be sold on Cali, Hawaii and Alaska's plume of radiation killing everything, fear gets the better of us I suppose though.  Buying Iodine tablets doesn't prevent against all sorts of radiation and in most cases is not a benefit to your health to take too many or any if not necessary.  What people here don't get is that the concentration of radiation across the Pacific in Japan is much more serious than any radioactive materials we might have gotten here.  My thoughts turn to the workers inside the nuclear plants trying to gain a firm grasp on the situation so no one else gets hurt.  Such dedication to a people and a nation, I wouldn't expect less from the Japanese.  This whole catastrophe has been handled by the Japanese in the most respectable of ways.  If anything like this happened in the US you'd see all sorts of people stealing and disputes arising between people.  For a nation which thinks so much of itself we sure don't know how to cooperate with each other during dire times.  I shouldn't speak quite so harshly of Americans, we did manage to pull together during 9/11, that was the first time I had ever felt proud to be an American and proud of our nation.  If we could only manage to carry ourselves in such a honorable manner all the time.