3 Years Ago, The Japanese Tsunami. One Heartbreaking Story.
May the 20,000 who died in it and their families begin to find peace. Here is one of the countless stories of pain. This one is particularly poignant.
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http://kotaku.com/three-years-after-her-death-daughter-sends-parents-a-t-1536740074
March 11, 2011 was truly a tragic day in Japan. Lives were changed and lives were ended. Yet, three years later, two parents who lost a daughter have just received a letter she mailed a decade ago.
"Mom and Dad, by the time you get this letter, perhaps you'll have a grandchild?" the daughter wrote. She was engaged to her middle school sweetheart and, in the two page letter, wrote, "I think I'll be married with a child, but what if I'm all alone?"
On January 12 of this year, the father checked the mail and discovered a letter from his daughter. He wondered if she was still alive. The letter had been mailed when the daughter was still working as a bus guide in 2004 and on a trip in Aichi Prefecture. She had written the letter from Meiji-Mura, a museum dedicated to preserving Japanese architecture of the Meiji Era (1868 to 1912).
The museum has a working post office called Uji-yamada Post Office that offers a "Heartful Letter" (はあとふるレター
service. For 300 yen (US$3), you can have them hold a letter and then deliver it ten years later. The daughter had used this service and posted her letter on January 10, 2004. Here is an example of a Heartful Letter (but not the actual letter the daughter mailed).
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