The Memory Salvage Project

It's been almost exactly one year since a tsunami hit Japan and the recovery process is still well underway. Kate pointed me towards one particularly interesting initiative - The Memory Salvage Project. While clearing out rubble from the disaster more than 750,000 photos were found and instead of tossing them away a group of volunteers has taken on the task of cleaning them, scanning them and doing what they can to return them to their original owners. A sampling of the photos can be seen here and a short video on the project itself can be viewed here. It's hard to imagine such a large group of people losing so much but I can I certainly comprehend the small joy that must come from receiving a portion of that lost life.