Gary Rex, a Foreign Service political officer stationed in Haiti, writes this deeply personal and moving account about surviving the earthquake and the aftermath. 

"We're experiencing the most terrible disaster movie you can imagine, with sights, sounds and smells beyond description or comprehension, especially during the night of the quake.

I had to climb over and through a mile of debris and stalled cars to get home, through masses of wounded, screaming, crying and bewildered people. The destruction and suffering is immense and beyond description."

His first person account appears in the Lincoln, Nebraska's Journal Star.

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