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I would like to share a story that has left an impact on me.


A few years back when i was serving my National Service, i was being deployed to Sumatra a western island in Indonesia on a rescue mission. A partial part of Sumatra was affected by massive earthquakes and tsunami, millions of people are affected, many lives lost and some homeless.


While flying on the chopper, i looked down at the island it was terribly wrecked. There were many missing casualties that we have to search for, many were trapped under the collapsed building, some were swept away by the tsunami waves. Through this mission i thought to myself that how lucky we Singaporeans are living in a small countries that won't be easily affected by natural disasters as Singapore is surrounded by our neighboring countries.


We were around Lake Toba, which is well known as the largest volcanic lake in the world. Suddenly i felt a little tremor. I thought it was just my mind playing tricks on me, but the tremor gets heavier and harder that they sounded for evacuation. My team leader hurried us to get on the chopper for evacuation as the disaster site is getting unstable and dangerous. We managed to get on the chopper and flew off. While on the chopper i heard a massive explosion "boom"! like an atomic bomb that just dropped onto the ground. I look out of the chopper''s window and saw the super volcano erupted, a moment of guilt and irresponsibility haunted me ever since that incident happened. 


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