The day after Christmas 222,000 (now 178,000 killed plus 50,000 missing and presumed dead) people were simply 'washed away by the Sea'......

No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde. - John Donne -