My dearest viewers,

This is the most heart-breaking production in my short video career. I also hope you could help pass on to your friends, colleagues, and others who you feel need to see this to understand why some, me included, say this disaster was “China’s natural version of 9/11.” (Sharing tools provided above, under video panel.)

This version has a new opening, not the cell phone text message baby orphan in a soldier’s arms. (Some say that was probably a fake story, which I cannot confirm either way.)

Thanks 1.3 billion,

Michael
(Many thanks to Grace Norman)

Updates:

• Oriental TV: Sichuan Basin Sunk ~60cm (video via Sina)
• CCTV: An Almost Save, Reporter’s Coverage of Death (video via Sina)