News Item: Children accounted for 40 percent, or 12,000, of the deaths in Sri Lanka, officials said. But without bodies to mourn over, many parents find it hard to believe their children are dead. Some were buried in mass graves, before parents were told. Many were swept out to sea.
Day after day parents come at dawn and wander the beach in the devastated districts of Ampara and Batticaloa.
''They believe their kids are alive and the sea will return them - one day,'' UNICEF chief Carol Bellamy said on Sunday, after touring this island country's tsunami-devastated shore.
NOTE: In 7-D and up, the sea WILL return them, alive and well. I'm reminded of the biblical assertion that: "The sea will give up its dead".
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