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| Thai Children Watching Doc Rosen |
Doc Rosen is a medic with the Emergency Air and Ground Lift and Evacuation Service Team (“EAGLES”), a group of Native Americans dedicated to helping those affected by natural disasters or by war anywhere.
He brings magic as a way of connecting with victims and establishing rapport. His small team worked in a small fishing village in the Phang Nga Province in Thailand. That area was virtually destroyed by the December Tsunami. Of the 6,500 villagers, 4,000 were dragged out to sea and drown.
”The kids flock around asking for magic tricks, as do the adults. The other aid workers say some have not smiled in weeks, but they are laughing as I do my sleight-of-hand,” Rosen told Indian Country Today in an e-mail from Thailand.
”Today an old man who lost his entire family, 16 people, smiled at me and then he asked me to ‘do the rabbit trick.”’
The Thai counselor said they thought they would lose him because he was not responding before this, but now he is talking again and eating.
Mr. Rosen describes how a young girl began calling him “Uncle” and told him that her favorite trick is the Magic Coloring Book.
According to the Thai counselors, “the magic tricks are the biggest step the kids have taken towards normalization.”
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