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After the Wave: Japan Tsunami Recovery Mission (eBook)

After the Wave: Japan Tsunami Recovery Mission (eBook)

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I’m David Burnell. In March 2011, while most were flying out of Japan, I flew in—alone, with a hundred pounds of gear and a quiet prayer: Use me how You need me. This audiobook is my field journal read aloud—plain talk from the mud and the cold—about rescue and recovery after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

You’ll hear what it felt like to embed with the Mexico City team, Los Topos, crawl under broken homes in Onagawa and Ishinomaki, and stand at the tape with families waiting for names, not headlines. You’ll meet a young woman in a white mask bowing through tears, kids in a gym who reset the room with a single “boing,” and two American boys who needed a velvet-hammer nudge to go home and fix what was

theirs. You’ll ride with me past Fukushima as the meter pegs, through aftershocks and tsunami alerts, and into small mercies—a rice ball shared with both hands, a paper crane, a bow that lasts one breath longer than expected.

This is not a hero story. It’s a real account of steady hands, quiet humor, dignity under pressure, and the simple rules that still guide me: go when you’re called, carry your weight, bow first, measure risk then move, and lift where you stand.

What you’ll get

  • Short, chapter-length episodes in my voice
  • Firsthand scenes from Sendai, Onagawa, Ishinomaki, and the Fukushima corridor
  • Lessons on leadership, service, faith, and resilience you can use at home

Content note: Includes frank, respectful descriptions of disaster scenes, body recovery, and earthquakes.

If you’re a first responder, a volunteer, a person of faith—or someone who believes ordinary people can do hard things—I made this for you.

Subscribe to listen, share it with someone who needs courage today, and let’s lift where we stand.

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