To Bismarck: A Request.Follow

Alrighty, folks, I'll be honest: I'm not the one to normally do stuff like this. But these aren't normal times. Hence--this post. (Sorry it's so long.)

I'm sure there's other posts about this on the main forum, and there's a post on the home page here for FFXI about donating to the disaster repair. So I'll be the first to admit that this is probably redundant. But here it goes anyway.

The death toll has hit 100,000 from the Tsunami that hit Southeast Asia. People were killed from Indonesia to Africa.

For millions around the globe, this tragedy is nothing short of apocalyptic in the full meaning of the word: earth-shattering. For all too many people, this is the end of their world, and was the end of many, many people. Everybody knows the facts by now, so I'll leave it at that.

We, the participants of this game, have been provided with a fantastic luxury. Not just the material luxury provided by the comptuers and the PlayStations and the game and the features and all that, but we are afforded the luxury of plugging our little brains into the game to go from this reality to one that exists as ones and zeroes.

Please know that I'm not trying to use this game as a guilt trip to squirrel money out of anyone. That is not the point of this post.

So: I'm asking the wonderful citizens of Bismark--those who can--to donate to the relief funds. I link to [url=www.amazon.com]Amazon[/url] which has a quick and easy way to donate to the Red Cross.

My request is that we suspend worrying about the Leaping Boots, Sole Sushi, and Genkai 1. Real people need clothes, Tylenol, and food--the basics of existence.

In effect, we have been given a new quest. One that rewards the world and not just ourselves.

Will you accept? Let's show Vana'Diel--and the world that grieves--that we care.

We raised over 107,000 dollars at work for this in the last 2 days to donate to the Red Cross.

I applaud your post. Rate up.

I have been seriously considering putting off my return to the game for a month to donate my usual monthly fee to the Red Cross. I will have to get my paycheck first though.

also while i was in hawaii on the news they said tectonic plates moved up to 98feet which could have moved islands unknown distances (FYI) i pray for them.