by Clifford F. Thies

While the prime minister of Japan calls for an evacuation of civilians from the vicinity of the nuclear power plant at Fukushima, fifty nuclear power plant workers continue to take their shifts, going in and out of the facility, to contain the damage. Like the nuclear power plant workers at Chernobyl and the New York City fireman on 9-11, these men risk their lives to save others, because of the pride they have in their work, and because of their camaraderie.

We, at Libertarian Republican, salute you and keep you always in our prayers.

From the CBC.ca "Esprit de Corps of Japan's nuclear power plants":

They have been called "the faceless 50," a band of brave technicians still working in the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant about 250 kilometres northeast of Tokyo, five days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami set off a series of explosions and other problems at the plant's six reactors.

By Wednesday, the number of workers had grown to 70, all wearing protective gear and being rotated in and out of the danger zone, often for only minutes at a time, so as to limit their radiation exposure. They work in the dark since power and generators at the plant have failed, using flashlights, like miners with headlamps working the depths of the world's deepest mines.