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A sad day. I was in the City of London just after the bombs exploded. A few minutes earlier and who knows I might have been on the tube train that was bombed in Aldgate.
I spent a lot of the day stuck in the City. I have never felt more useless and superfluous in my life.
Have you been following the news over here? There are allegations that the Murdoch owned paper News of the World hacked phones belonging to the families of 7/7 victims.
It’s two steps down on the from page, Jams, with two links to you and the new allegations regarding the families of soldiers killed in action.
When I heard about the bombings it reminded me of the IRA campaign when I spent a lot of time in Britain during the 1970s. I had a couple of near misses during that time, which really got to me. After all of the things I had done that I knew could get me killed, the possibility of having been taken out while shopping really annoyed me.
Indeed! Luckily the nearest I came to an IRA bombing was the mortar attack on 10 Downing Street. I was in my office not far away when I heard the explosion. I jumped out of my skin.
If I had waled safe from Rivet Amber (or is that the wrong one) I would have been pissed at the idea of coming to grief while out buying new smalls!
I remember that – the mortar was in a van parked near by.
The IRA caused me some problems, as I knew a number of people who were supporters in the US. They couldn’t wrap their minds around the concept that I deeply resented attempts to kill me or my friends, and wasn’t swayed by the excuse that I wasn’t the actual ‘target’. In too many ways, that makes it worse. No one wants ‘collateral damage’ on their headstone.
Met a few Noraid types in the past. I had a burning desire to bet the bullshit out of the scumbags.
I had one so called irishman berating me for being a Brit – rather rich given that he was about 6th generation yank while I am the holder of an Irish passport!
The people of my family name were Prussians, and my great grandfather left to get away from them. If the ‘old country’ is so great, go back, no one is stopping you.
There is nothing worse than people who support violence in other countries, without even knowing what is really going on there. There are always groups working to change things who don’t think they need guns or bombs to do it. If you want to show support, send these groups some money.
Jams, that is unfortunately an all to familiar American trait, and it isn’t just those with Irish surnames.