horrific disaster

The tsunami came with out warning, it took hundreds of thousands of people along with it, leaving total devistation in the Asian side of the world.
People are donating money and volunteering their services like never before. But, then, we have never seen such a dissaster as this before.
I cant help but wonder, If this had happened to the atlantic coast of America, or, Pacific coast of America would the world reach out in the same manner?

My heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones, the mothers whose arms are empty for lost children, not one, but maybe two, maybe several all gone in a amoment of unforgivable and unforgettable time.
For children who cry for their momma's or pappa's, or both, gone, never having a chance to grow up under their parents love and concern.
Tourists who went to live a few days of paradise, now, living in the hell of perhaps a loved one who will never go home with them, or, never knowing exactly what has happened to them, their bodies buried in open pits, pushed asside in a trench by a bulldozer, or, put aflame to burn away the stench. Or even perhaps, floated away to a long distance land, to be washed up on a far off island, or even worse. Oh death where is thy sting.....

Where is God in all of this?
Is this but a test to see how human kindness comes out and gives of their hearts to unknown people, giving of their time, money, food, and labor? Are we being tested but once again to give rather than to take? To bring peace between warring countries but even for a moments time, to give a helping hand instead of killing each other?
For a nation to put aside their desires to rule over another, or push their belief's upon those who do not wish to accept them? Showing a power of one God over another?
Where is the logic in life, where is the completeness of putting a puzzle together which has no common border only blood which runs red no matter what color the skin?
Is it natures way of bringing third world countries into the for ground of need, to bring the countries who are higher in rank down to their level.....loosing loved ones is the most common ground one can come together in, if war does not show that, then, must nature?

Oh so many questions and no answers for I am only one, who has no shadow in life I live alone, unnoticed, with no voice or light to guide me or my thoughts, always alone.