Small Miracles Rise from Earthquake's Rubble by Melissa Block
I keep looking at a photo on the Xinhua news agency Web site.
It shows a soldier gently cradling a round-cheeked tiny bundle of an infant. The baby is sleeping peacefully, without even a scratch. The baby is about three months old, wearing a quilted green vest and soft shoes, wrapped in a blanket.
Xinhua says the baby was found on Tuesday in the wreckage of a building in Beichuan .
The mother was found kneeling above her child in protection. She did not survive. But she saved her baby. The rescue workers also found a cell phone. The mother had tucked it into her baby's blanket. She had typed a text message on the screen. The message said, "My dear, if you can survive, please remember I love you."
