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Mhm I think most people know and

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felt that about 2:50 PM we experienced

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a significant earthquake . It turns out

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it was about 8 8.9 magnitude . The

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piece about the earthquake coming and

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going wasn't as easy or as simple as

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you would think because those who went

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through earthquakes before are familiar

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with it , it lasts very few seconds .

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But this one was different . This one

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started shaking and the intensity just

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kept growing and it kept going and we

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plugged in watching the news and at

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that point we started seeing the

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tsunami hit for safety . And this is a

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look once again that Kamaishi city and

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you want to have Prefecture , it looks

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like a tsunami has been engulfing .

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Yeah , involving the port Sendai

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airport from the beginning was

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devastated . It's on , it's in many ,

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you know , news footages of uh headband

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hit very hard underwater and by all

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accounts , people thought it was a

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total loss .

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Task Force Fuji under Colonel Kaczynski

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at the time , just took the initiative

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to start pushing his assets towards the

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epicenter . So just like marines and

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first responders run to the sign of

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chaos and disorder . Uh Colonel

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Kaczynski and his crew was true to that

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then ran towards danger . So he put

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together what assets he had informed of

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trucks , tractors , those type of

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construction related equipment that

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were very valuable and cleaning roads .

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And he just started moving it forward .

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And before you knew it we had Air Force

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C130s landing with more capacity in

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there with controllers and slowly I

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think that gave a bit of a spark to the

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locals there and they needed it . They

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were hit hard and it showed them that

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they can rebuild and we did it together .

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I'm very impressed by the self defense

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force and their capabilities , but also

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the people of Japan for just how

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resilient they are . In the example

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they set for others and how to come

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together during a disaster like that we

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hear based in Japan I think are a down

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payment for the rest of the might of

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the United States of America has to

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offer and in operation Tomodachi that

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was represented to helping our friend

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in a in a time of need .

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Uh huh .