shelter for the best farewell they could offer in the wake of the tsunami. don t give up hope he tells his friends. keep living for my son. this car-side tribute to a life stolen young and in minutes. this father covers his teenage son and says good-bye. but the disaster s toll is measured in human suffering. this 93-year-old barely escaped the tsunami, but is sick and getting worse by the day in the evacuation center. i don t know what to do says her granddaught granddaughter. i m just trying to take this day by day. that is all any victim can do. seven or eight of my family is missing she says. including her oldest son. presumed dead. his body washed away from his school by the tsunami.