CNN Video: Emotional farewell to 16-year-old schoolboy tsunami victim

[Amerigo Vespucci]

VIDEO @ the URL below.

Emotional farewell to 16-year-old schoolboy tsunami victim

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/21/japan.quake.tsunami.funeral/index.html?hpt=C1



Rikuzentakata, Japan (CNN) -- On Monday they crowded around a car, carrying the body of their friend, 16-year-old Hiroki Sugawara.

This was not a planned funeral. It was barely a funeral at all. But this was the best his parents could do, given the massive number of fatalities in Japan's historic tsunami.

Hiroki's parents and his two brothers drove his body to the school, now an emergency shelter. Exposing his deeply battered face, crushed in the devastating tsunami, Hiroki's father said he wanted to give his friends a chance to say goodbye to the boy who loved to play soccer with his teammates.

"Don't give up hope," wept Hiroki's father, speaking before two dozen of Hiroki's young friends. "Keep living for my son."

[opihimoimoi]

1. Closure for Hiroki's friends.... daijobo

[ClarkUSA]

2. Hiroki's father's words are poignant. Such sadness. RIP.