After tsunami, schools reopen to hope and loss

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Boston.com News
By John Donnelly, Globe Staff | January 26, 2005

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- One month after the earthquake and tsunami struck with deadly force, the province today marks a major point in its rebuilding: the reopening of several thousand schools.


In a first-grade classroom at the Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Negeri, like at so many schools, cleaners rushed to put things in order. They shoveled six inches of mud out the door, washed the ceramic tile floor, and even hung a class picture taken before the tsunami.

Except that the teacher in the picture, a woman wearing a white headscarf named Jusriani, died in the great disaster.

And visible from the classroom window, wedged in the schoolyard debris, was a man's body. Workers said it was one of several on the property they haven't been able to pull out.
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1. just..wow.

<<And visible from the classroom window, wedged in the schoolyard debris, was a man's body. Workers said it was one of several on the property they haven't been able to pull out.>>


oh man...so so utterly tragic.

we have no idea.