A Personal Reflection on Mitch
(11/13/98 11:00am)
Billions of dollars in damages. Over 80 percent of the infrastructure destroyed. Ninety-four bridges out. Thousands of people missing. More than a million left homeless. Over 11,000 dead. Over 11,000. Are these casualties of a civil war? Of never-ending bombing? No. They are victims of a very recent natural disaster.