The world's newest superheroes are the Japanese workers risking their lives at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. With radiation levels many times higher than normal, at at time where the Japanese government has evacuated every living soul within 20 miles of the plant, these brave men and women are risking all for their fellow human beings. It is truly breathtaking, this effort, at once as spiritual as it is virtual, by otherwise regular human beings, who for years just went to work and anonymously did their jobs.
Some of these workers were ready to retire, others had no obligation to go. But go they did, the retiree urged on by none other than his wife!
It is said that the Japanese culture inculcates the attitude of collective well being over personal comfort. These living saints are proving it. And no matter the eventual outcome, and with humble attribution to one of my heroes, Winston Churchill, rarely have so few done so much for so many.
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