We saw pictures of the city and that's when we started shaking and crying and wondering how we made it out of there, ... We only saw what was around us.

I started shaking when I got up there. I started getting nervous then, when I saw him.

When I hit the big fish, I started shaking.

We all had this panicked look, ... That was the place of last refuge and where the majority of people would be. And along with that, we had a lot more water to walk through.

We started working together with the city administration to help orphans. When we saw the needs of the homeless children, that is where our focus turned and continues to this day.

He recounted to me that when he first saw the pictures of the bombed-out shells of the building he was really horrified.