Sometimes a tragedy just spawns other forms of tragedy.
In Japan, many elderly citizens are volunteering to clean up the nuclear plant at Fukujima, sparing the lives of younger workers with small children.
This is beyond admirable. It is humbling that folks would do such a thing.
This is not the tragedy, though it is pretty much a volunteer death sentence to those folks.
The tragedy is that their nation's leaders are not taking them seriously.
The other tragedy is that the only motivation we get from the elderly here in the US is a bunch of racist morons who complain about the government and travel to Tea Bagger rallies using their Social Security checks and buying pills in faraway WalMarts with their Medicare money.
Just makes ya sick some days.
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