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primrosepath77 [userpic]
NO time Toulouse

I have no time to write much, and being in a hurry I'm making typing mistakes so don't expect much today.

Today is the first anniversry of the suicide bomber attacks on the London Tube trains and bus near Tavistock Square.

There was another video of one of the young lads involved released yesterday in the Middle East somewhere. He was dressed as an arab, and berating the viewers for invading Iraq and Afghanistan. If it was up to me, and a lot of other people here, no-one would have invaded anyone.

His parents must be going through hell. They live in Leeds and run a fish and chip shop. It must make them feel so guilty, as well as heartbroken. I feel so sorry for them.

And all the others who died, ofcourse. I just wonder who feels sympathy for the grieving families of the bombers, that's all. They were as shocked as everyone else, when it happened..

Comments

I don't know if they are still making a big national commemoration every time 11th September rolls round in the U.S.

I don't know how much these big public/media events help anyone really. Those involved, and those who experienced a near miss are unlikely to ever forget it. Just what it is supposed to mean to the rest of us, I don't exactly know.

It's not quite the thing to pull the nation together, I guess, under the circumstances.

I expect they do commemorate 9/11 still in the U.S. Not much else has ever happened to them, in one sense. I don't mean that as callously as it sounds. But I do think they play these events with the full gamut of emotions, from A to B, as Dorothy Parker once observed.