Comments about ‘Our faces of Haiti: 4 survivors personify strength, resilience’

Your every word held me speechless and compelled to read on. Gentlemen, your constant stories and photos through this disaster have brought many tears of gratitude for what I and my family have and enjoy here in Utah. Thanks for doing your job to the utmost and not only being outstanding reporters of the news, but men of compassion. To my friends Scott and Dennis, I am so very proud to call you friends. As trite as this may sound, in my opinion, you have put the Pulitzer Prize out of reach for others. Thanks for sharing with your readers the emotion of the moment and the faces of Haiti. Welcome home, and congratulations.

What wonderful stories, thank you for sharing your glimpses of Haiti; they are very touching. You can't help but feel compassion for these people and especially the Bishop who has so much weight on his shoulders. I loved the pictures of the children. God bless them all.

Bishop Harry Mardy is my hero!

Wow, thank you for these beautiful and inspiring stories that help us to see beyond the face. To know someone's story is a powerful look into what influences them in day to day decisions. A picture does say a thousand words, and the pictures speak volumes, AND the words are nice too! Thank you for this work! Strong Work! ---a reader in Netherlands

Funny how one can find what one looks for. Stories we hear from other parts of the world tell of grizzly deaths, people fighting over food and so on. The Deseret News writers are somehow able to reveal the nastiness of the circumstance while finding the inner strength and admirable focus of some of the victims. Thank you.

I was hoping the Des would publish stories provided by the reporters and photographers that went to Haiti. Thanks for a thought-provoking glimpse into Haiti through your eyes.

Great stories about Haitians. How about stories about Utah Soilders in Haiti with the 82nd Airborne and other military units. My son is there with 82nd and spends his time taking care of Haiti as a country. Pictures and stories of our Utah Soilders would be welcome.

I was moved to tears reading about the experiences some of the Deseret News staff had while working in Haiti. I also continue to be so impressed with the people of Haiti--so many who despite their ordeal are shown smiling in pictures. I saw one night on "Nightline" a story of a doctor visiting some of the injured. He paused at the side of a woman on a cot and while he was speaking, she gently took his hand and thru an interpreter she said, "But things could be worse". I have thought so many times about that amazing woman, and the example she is to me of enduring well her trials. I pray for the people, and country of Haiti, that much good will come out of something so tragic. Watching coverage of the happenings in Haiti has served to restore my faith in mankind, with all the assistance and compassion given by so many.

Whatever these wonderful reporters and photographers--who wrote those compelling stories and the pictures that went with them do in their future professional lives--to me, they are already at the top.

I LOVED getting to see pictures of the men who's words and images have had me riveted since they started their coverage.

I t was so great to see their pictures with the Haitian children--those images of you with them exactly conveys the spirit we felt in all you've published for us during your time there.

Many Thanks.

You've done a great job reporting from, on, and about the events in Haiti.

Your news reports have been better than what I've been able to read elsewhere, especially the compelling, personal stories about the orphanages, the orphans returning to the US, and the Utah Hospital Task Force.

I've posted many links on Facebook to my friends here.

Keep it up.

A grateful reader in San Diego,
Jan Anderson

Thank you for your moving and tender stories of the 'one'. My heart breaks for the children. Bless those wonderful bishops and individuals who are striving to ease the conditions there. Hopefully, as in other tragic events there will be some wonderful good that will come to the good and honorable people of Haiti despite this terrible event.

If you want to know a little about the soldiers in the 82nd Airborne, you might want to check out the Mormon Times. They have a Utah Hospitals volunteer writing his own first-person stories, and routinely comments about the soldiers. I read it and was moved to tears!