Idealism never dies

Were it not for the fatal earthquake that has forever taken their youthful lives, they might never even be known to us, nor their noble characters.

Even in reports from the spots, their stories took only two short paragraphs. But in a moment of life's cruelest test, they provided, at the cost of their lives, a heart-breaking footnote to the greatest virtue of humanity.

Let us remember and cherish their names, Zhang Laiya, and Lian Fang, two ordinary teachers of Yingxiu Primary School at the epicenter of the deadly tremor.