…on just how much the world has changed? I wouldnt be in this job for one…
I was just looking out the window and thought about the July bombings here, too.
Im not being morbid, I just think its important to remember and reflect. I kept a poppy from November last year and wore it for the July 7th bombings.
+1
This was one event that every one remembers exactly what they were doing at the time 3000 people were murdered! God bless their souls!
It is time to reflect!
well put miggy
ive been caught up in my own troubles i didnt even think of this gabs…
well done mate;).
this was a horrid event …
not so smiled:(.
R.I.P all involved
Yes, RIP. Never forget. Their lives and deaths meant a great deal.
But for me, I think of those on the flights, particularly the fourth plane, where some of the passengers and crew attempted to retake control of the plane and saved lives as a result and I think of the firefighters and the massive number of heros that lived and died that day. I also think of how positively everyone was drawn together and how, acts that were about hatred, were turned into a surge of love for humanity.
Perhaps to gain peace, we sometimes need war. Id like to think we dont need war at all, but with the bad comes the good. Its the Human Nature catch-22, erring on the side of Glass Half Full…
I can’t believe it was 7 years ago… wow. I remember watching a live feed on the news as the second plane hit. Was crazy.
I’d flown over new York 4 days before it happened. If our holday was just a little later, we’d have been stranded in the US for a considerable amount of time!!
If the whole Martyrdon thing is true (which it isn’t) I hope the 77 virgins they get are all guys - how disappointing would that be? Straight or not, I see nothing appealing about 77 male virgins. You’d get ten seconds of awkward fumbling from each of them before they spurt in their pants. Worth massacring people for? pleh no!
Hear Hear…
I will never forget what I was doing that day as our biggest client was GE who lost alot of people that day…
God Rest the Soles of all those inosent people
I agree with all the above, very sad, pointless and the wrong way to go about any change, no matter how desperate you may be.
But lets not also forget the diabolical response from the USA and UK, the pointless bombing in Iraq that destroyed and maimed 1000’s of innocent people, the current ‘war’ in Afghanistan and of course Guantanamo Bay where the very laws that America and the UK claim to want to uphold, the human rights we all claim we stand behind, are deliberately ignored and people are tortured every day.
We have lost our own military personnel in this cowards response too which is criminal. Bush and Bliar should be on trial for crimes again humanity, same as Saddam Hussein was.
A remembrance day poem, but still apt.
“They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.”
Please dont turn this thread into a political one, just remember the innocent people who have died in acts of terrorism.
My most poignant moment from 9/11 and afterwards and one I will never forget, is visiting the NYPD museum and seeing recovered items from a Port Authority police woman who was killed, her gun was melted into a contorted mess. I also remember seeing childrens pictures, saved from the posters which lined the streets of NY, one was a picture of a FDNY fireman, and said “As we all ran out, you ran in”.
It just makes me feel so so very sad. :crying:
Just because fearmongering is on the political agenda doesnt mean I buy it. If i want to be depressed, Ill just think of those who have passed away in my own family.
Just because they died in a terrorist act DOESNT make them a hero to me. Thousands of innocent people die every day… they wont be remember for years to come.
Thousands of INNOCENT Iraqis died when british and US forces dropped bombs in Iraq. What happened to their minute of silence? :crying:
Yes, i know terrorism and genocide is ignored by everyone when its done by the US under the definition of ‘war’, but I guess I just dont buy it.
Today, like the 7th of July should be a day when politics goes out the window to be replaced by reflection and respect.
Tomorrow we can reflect on the retaliation, but not today.
Lest we forget… 
well said
we had squawk boxes to Carr futures a firm in tower 1 when it was all happening.
thats one afternoon i will never forget.
9/11 and 7/7 make my skin crawl - two horrific events where the governments in question forwent a proper inquiry for an official “narrative”. A lot of innocent people died but we can’t really say for certain who killed them or what really happened. And that’s all I’m going to say about it.
Im sorry - I didnt mean for this to be a political thread. I was just trying to pay my respects and maybe join a few others in doing so.
Id respectfully ask those that wish to condemn politicians etc to start another thread.
+1 … I had already asked for that, but it was ignored… :doze:
London - 7th July 2005
The text message came through ‘Hope your Ok’
I was asleep in bed the morning that day
The next text said ‘Glad you’re tucked up safe in bed’
Suddenly the word BOMB jumped into my head
----- 7/7 -----
On with the news so that I could see
The destruction of life, live on tv
I was soon off to work to help out my mates
London’s people now knocking on heaven’s gates.
----- 7/7 -----
We worked day and night ‘free pizzas for all’
Bodies laid out and blood on the walls
Fire, police and ambulance crew
Back into the fray to do what they had to do
----- 7/7 -----
A few hours later we all stood around
Contemplating the hell above and below ground
Soon our part is over but not in our heads
We all head off home and back to our beds
----- 7/7 -----
A few weeks later the badges are out
To remember the day that we all heard the shout
It says ‘pride of London’ and gives you the day
It says ‘pride of London’, what more could it say?
written for those that were there… we wont forget .
I was on holiday in Spain when it all happened.
