Terrible
What a weird day July 7th was.
Totally impossible to get my head round the fact that people just like me were brutally slaughtered going about their ordinary business, in places that I and my friends pass through on a regular basis.
London was a very strange place to be. At times, jammed with people and cars making their way out. At other times, deserted; a ghost town. Shops, bars and restaurants shut, with hand written notes in the window.
I walked from Covent Garden to Turnham Green that evening, and it was as though nothing had happened: people were still jogging in Hyde Park; taxis were still trying to knock down pedestrians on Kensington High Street.
Surreal.
May it never happen again.
posted by Pete Gold @ 9:29 AM
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2 Comments:
I think we just get on with things. The Yanks had never experienced terrorism. We had.
It's the only appropriate response.
I agree, and although these attacks were much smaller than the nine eleven attacks, it's not like the whole country, or even London, has been stopped in its tracks. Thanks to the IRA, most Londoners are familiar with the concept of security alerts and even actual attacks. Sad, but true.
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