Kobe Earthquake
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Banks destroyed. ATM machines left intact. Twelve-dollar flashlights before the quake, costing $12 after. No reports of price gouging or looting. Patient lines of people stoically waiting for food or information. No line jumping or altercations.
Thank you, people of Kobe, for such a fine example of discipline and citizenship. Would that our citizens would behave in a similar fashion, given the inevitable crisis that will surely come. Sadly, I fear not.
OSCAR GIBSON
Huntington Beach
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