Today is the tenth anniversary of the 7/7 bombings in London, which killed 52 people. This morning, flowers were laid at the memorial: http://ift.tt/1NJWD7e and there will be a minute's silence held across the country at 11.30 BST (play at Wimbledon will start 15 minutes later, at 11.45, so that it can be observed). Where possible and safe, London transport will come to a halt for the minute's silence.
Biographies of those who died in this pointless attack can be found here: http://ift.tt/1KIimPe - click on the photo for a mini-bio, and on the word 'more' for an expanded one (I missed the 'more' at first).
My boss at the time was caught up in the chaos; he'd gone to London for a meeting and was staying a few days to take in some tennis while he was there. As the news started to break, we tried to get in touch with him but the mobile networks were down. Fortunately for him he'd been diverted away from the blasts, so once he made it back to his hotel he phoned us at work to say he was safe. Later that day, I had to take my daughter (then 12) to the orthodontist and I can remember sitting in the waiting room watching the same clips of news film over and over again on the TV there.
Ten years on, the bombings seem even more ineffective and pointless than they did then - aside from the tragic deaths, nothing really changed in our national psyche or our day to day lives. We're not unused to terrorist attacks from years of IRA atrocities in this country, so vigilance is never relaxed but it doesn't rule people's lives any more than before.
Biographies of those who died in this pointless attack can be found here: http://ift.tt/1KIimPe - click on the photo for a mini-bio, and on the word 'more' for an expanded one (I missed the 'more' at first).
My boss at the time was caught up in the chaos; he'd gone to London for a meeting and was staying a few days to take in some tennis while he was there. As the news started to break, we tried to get in touch with him but the mobile networks were down. Fortunately for him he'd been diverted away from the blasts, so once he made it back to his hotel he phoned us at work to say he was safe. Later that day, I had to take my daughter (then 12) to the orthodontist and I can remember sitting in the waiting room watching the same clips of news film over and over again on the TV there.
Ten years on, the bombings seem even more ineffective and pointless than they did then - aside from the tragic deaths, nothing really changed in our national psyche or our day to day lives. We're not unused to terrorist attacks from years of IRA atrocities in this country, so vigilance is never relaxed but it doesn't rule people's lives any more than before.
via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1RhZlae
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