People stand among flowers placed on book bags at a makeshift memorial at the ruins of a collapsed Elementary School. A father mourns the loss of his child among the remaining bookpacks of children killed at Fuxin No. 2 Primary School in Wufu, Sichuan Province. A aerial view photo of the Earthquake hit city of Beichuan."The day of the Earthquake, it was a day of blood and tears. We were a class of graduating students and were sitting having lunch at the school and chatting about our futures. Life seemed wonderful but then we felt a violent jolt, fans, fluorescent lights, stone slabs, bricks and slates rained down on us. The whole building suddenly collapsed. We could hear cries of agony and screams for help from underneath the rubble. My classmates were buried alive in front of me. Some of their bodies were unrecognizable. It is a terrible thing to watch your friends die..."
More here Diary of a Survivor, by Qian Liu a Senior Student at Beichuan High School.
