All 33 Miners in Chile Rescued.
This is happy news. It is good news for the families of the once trapped miners, good news for Chile and good news for people everywhere. It speaks well for the survivability of man and for the resourcefulness of man, to overcome hard obstacles, and to do what would have seemed to be impossible. It speaks well for the communal effort, of man pulling together to save those thirty-three lives.
Well done to Chile, and to all the folks who helped in the rescue.
Item: from The New York Times --"Rescuers Pull All 33 Miners to Safety in Chile. Two months, nine days and eight hours after their excruciating ordeal began, the last of the 33 miners trapped in an apartment-sized hole a half mile under Chile was delivered safely to the earth's surface, capping one of the most dramatic survival stories in mining history. With the entire nation rapt and much of the world riveted,the last miner, Luis Urzua, rose smoothly out of the small hole in the ground, prompting an eruption of applause and cheers that seemed just as heartfelt as the outpouring that followed the emergence of the first miner nearly a day earlier."