sense memory
Jan. 17th, 2010 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidenC and i have been looking at galleries of pictures from Haiti and the relief effort. (from The Big Picture and The Guardian). they're still finding survivors in the rubble as of today.
C shared this one of search and rescue dogs lined up for shipment in Spain, and my first thought was "at least they'll find people alive".
and then i burst into tears. funny things that stick with you: back in 2001, there was a story about the dogs trained for live humans that were searching the rubble of the World Trade Center. the dogs were wigging out because they weren't finding anyone alive. finally the handlers had to bury some live volunteers be "found". hearing that story on the radio almost ten years ago left us both incapacitated with tears, and this morning we both choked up again with an oblique reminder. i wonder how long it will take before the physical response fades.
and i wonder what happens to us when the next quake hits here and those memory triggers are live.
C shared this one of search and rescue dogs lined up for shipment in Spain, and my first thought was "at least they'll find people alive".
and then i burst into tears. funny things that stick with you: back in 2001, there was a story about the dogs trained for live humans that were searching the rubble of the World Trade Center. the dogs were wigging out because they weren't finding anyone alive. finally the handlers had to bury some live volunteers be "found". hearing that story on the radio almost ten years ago left us both incapacitated with tears, and this morning we both choked up again with an oblique reminder. i wonder how long it will take before the physical response fades.
and i wonder what happens to us when the next quake hits here and those memory triggers are live.
