10 Years since the 7/7 Attacks on London

[HorseTears]

Posted: 7/7/15 at 1:31pm

It's the 10-year anniversary of the 7/7 terrorist attacks on London's public transport system which left 52 people dead.  I was not in NY after 9/11, but I was in London a few days after 7/7.  I would never in a million years compare my experience to that of those lost and injured and their families and friends.  I do remember feeling incredibly anxious before walking down into a tube station or as an iconic red double-decker bus would pass me on the street.  Not to mention that I was a brown man with a beard in an age in which brown men with beard weren't exactly in fashion in the west.  I was traveling alone and visiting my home country for the first time since my family had moved to the US when I was 10.  It certainly was a somber time and I may have perhaps imagined this, but I recall most people on the street and on busses and trains making an effort to make eye contact with each other.  Lots of silent acknowledgements of our humanity.  

 

[javero]

Posted: 7/11/15 at 4:48pm

Thanks for sharing.  Oddly, viewing it helped me snap out of grieving over the recent loss of a colleague.  We humans are surprisingly resilient.