以下兩封信，是我的大學同學在我們的社群上面po的文章，跟我的回信，是針對這次的八八水災的一些迴響，讓我們一起為台灣加油吧！( turmo 因為是美國僑生，所以用英文打字可能比較流利，挖哩！已經在高雄開業十幾年了，應該用台語寫更流利吧.....)
My Two Friends
My conscience behooves me to tell this story.
I have known two friends because of playing golf. One is A-Huer who is about 50 year old. He is a generous and nice person. A few years ago, he bought about half acre of a property to develop a few fish farms. I had been at his land with my relatives for fishing twice. He was not only provided us the fishingkit and bait, and he also treated us the delicious meal. I am a novice at fishing. He would always make sure that we got some fish to bring home. He stayed at 佳冬 to watch for his property last weekend. Then a mediocre typhoon hit Taiwan with the direction toward the northern area. As a result, it was the worst typhoon attack in 50 years at southern Taiwan. He lost all the fish and many belonging with the flooding at 2 floor hight. He lost about thirty million dollars. Well, he is still alived.
Another friend is a family physician. He chose 六龜 to practice the medicine. Of course, his clinic was heavily flooded. He walked hours to go back there yesterday. I am sure if he ever opened the clinic again, some of his patients would not be around. Most of them were deceased or vanished by this so called a weak typhoon. It’s sarcastic that a weak typhoon could cause such a devastating damage.
My friends will lose a lot of wealth along with friendship. There will be many sorrowful stories. Unfortunately, life still goes on. The government will go back to his bureaucratic arrogance without empathy. Everything will seem to be peaceful until the next disaster occur again. Are we ever aroused by this painful lesson? Are we really taking good care of this land or are we just doing what we want to do without caring about the consequence? One thing I am so sure if we don’t take good care of this mother land, the nature will fight back again and again. So please love this land and respect the nature.
turmo
Dear Turmo : ( 是李武彥吧？！)
本來明天可能會跟路竹會下高雄去賑災，誰知道前天通知我們，正在把周六的門診客人排開，今天早上再報名時，已經額滿了。所以誰說我們醫師是冷漠的一群呢？有著滿腔熱血的醫師，可也是大有人在呢！
不過根據上次921時，我帶隊飛進山區去救難的經驗，重傷患超過頭一個24小時，大概都來不及救援了。所以我們飛進去，就是後送病患以及補給慢性病用藥加上滿滿的遺憾.....
921之後，全國各地成立了急難救助隊，許多醫師熱心的投入這個行列，而這次的八八水災，可能又把這個救助系統潑了一盆冷水，因為連續兩天的風雨，所有的救難人員都只能在基地乾著急，因為直昇機根本不可能出動，而目前台灣的直升機中，大概只有救難中隊跟海軍的海鷗直升機，馬力比較大，可以挺的住風雨跟飛高，因為921時，我搭乘的陸軍眼鏡蛇直升機，就連杉林溪的山頭都飛不過，嚇的我一身冷汗。
所以turmo你說的很對，我們對這塊土地付出的關心實在太少了，而無止境的破壞又實在太多了。多次帶著全家去中南部玩，許多的山坡地依舊種滿了檳榔樹，甚至就在重建災區的附近，真是夠諷刺的。我想除了政府明令禁止栽種外，大概很難期待人民有自覺的可能，我想我們沒有立場去責備這些種植的人，因為這是一種高經濟性的作物，很難讓人願意放棄它，但是產生天然災害的時候，卻是我門全民買單，似乎也不盡情理。
希望天佑台灣吧！
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