Mother gives her life to save child in Japan earthquake

This powerful image was shared with us via Facebook. According to the post, it depicts “a true story of one mother’s sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake.”  We have no way to confirm that the details of the story are all correct, but found the image and accompanying narrative too inspiring not to share with Intent readers.

After the Earthquake had subsided, rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house. They saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was strange. She had knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head.

With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure.

He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. But for some reason, the team leader felt compelled to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his had through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement, “A child! There is a child!”

The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3-month-old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body. The woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to protect and cover the little boy, who was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up.

The medical doctor came quickly to examine the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said, “If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept.  ”If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Such is the mother’s love for her child!!

via Info For U