A Genuine Message of Hope and Trust

A Matter of Trust is a post I have written on my other blog here last September 11, 2010.  A post about the 33 miners trapped 2,000 feet below the ground.

Manifest no distrust, or you may invite the danger you appear to apprehend.

And indeed, they were saved.

For the rescue to be complete, it will take about one hour for one miner to get to the surface.

Riding the capsule built by the Chilean Navy named as the Fenix, a miner has to take a sort of a medicine that will prevent him from suffering from nausea or dizziness as he makes his ascent.  The metal capsule used to rescue them rotates by itself while moving upwards and might cause this feeling.  

Aside from the medicine, they were required to wear protective sunglasses and thick sweaters.  The sweaters are to protect them from the sudden shift from the 30-degree temperature down below to the nearly-freezing point on the surface.  Moreover, the dark sunglasses will help their eyes to adjust from the darkness down the collapsed mine to the normal lighting conditions on the surface.

My respect and admiration goes out to everyone who helped and organized the rescue aside from all the 33 miners.  But my heart goes out to those six rescuers who risked their lives in going down that collapsed mine to assist these 33 miners.

While the whole world rejoices as each of these miners made it to the surface, I couldn't wait until it was these rescuers' turn.  I was teary-eyed as the last of these six heroes made it to the surface, officially ending the rescue operation.

69 days, 33 miners, 6 rescuers.

May all these people serve as an inspiration to all of us as they showed us a genuine message of HOPE and TRUST.  

**The quote was from the book, "The Last of the Mohicans," by James Fenimore Cooper.