After two long months the resuce tunnel should break through today.  Once checked and possibly lined for strength, evacuation will begin in an order determined by perceived health and strength.

How must those men, and their families, be feeling?  Hope and anticipation mixed with apprehension and terror.

Will rescue be successful?  Or even at this late hour what might go wrong?  As each man is lifted out and fewer remain, how will it feel to be next, to be waiting patiently or impatiently?  How will the last one feel?

And once they are out and their eyes blink despite the special goggles; as the media circus descends upon them; as they and their loved ones discover who they have all been changed by this, how then will it feel?

May God's peace and love surround them in these hours and days and beyond once we've all forgotten them once more.