OT: Explosions in London

[nomade]

May the victims rest in peace, and may who did it riot in hell..!!

 

[Lear]

Here is anoter voice, from Madrid, hope everybody is ok.

Diego K.

 

[reagan]

To our London RFF friends, thanks for checking in with updates. I've been keeping posted as well as possible all day. When I heard the news at first this morning, I thought of the terrorists, "Oh my. You've done it now. The Blessed Brits are no one to poke at!" Your posted words of resolve are certainly proof of that.

I've prayed for you, my London Friends, just now as I send this your way. God bless. Stay safe.

 

[Nikon Bob]

On hearing of the attacks today I was saddened and hope all our UK RF friends are OK. I know Londoners will react with a business as usual attitude. It is a great city matched by the great heart of it's population who have withstood far worse before.

Bob

 

[jrong]

I was working in an office next to Liverpool St station. I usually use the Circle Line every day, but was already in the office by the time the bomb exploded. We were evacuated before anyone really knew what was going on, and so it was some time before we pieced the news together. It was impossible to get a line out to phone people, and it was so annoying that all the phoneboxes in the City had been removed because cellphones had made them "superfluous". The mobile network collapsed, so much for the convenience of cellphones! I had to trek back to another office to make phone calls, and then walk 5 1/2 miles home. I was luckier than many people who lived outside central London and had to rely on whatever vestiges of public transport there was to ferry them home. At least I only ended up with sore feet! But all around London, especially in the west, it was surprising how life went on as normal. It was hardly a city in panic or cowed by fear.

Thanks for the good wishes. I just hope these evil b****ds are caught soon and dealt with appropriately.

Jin

 

[Andy K]

Here's a quote from a column in one of today's papers here in Britain. I think it sums up our attitude to events like yesterday's.

'There is a song that Noel Coward wrote at the height of the Blitz and it is called London Pride...

Every Blitz your resistance toughening,
From the Ritz to the Rose and Crown.

It was true then and it is true today. Those people who placed those bombs should consult the murderous bastards of another age.
It doesn't work. Ask the IRA. Ask the Luftwaffe. None of them got what they wanted. In fact their bombs made their aims impossible to achieve.
London will weep and London will bury its dead and London will steel itself for the next attack.

Every Blitz our resistance toughening
- from the Ritz to the Rose and Crown.

London can take it.'

 

[Sonnar Brian]

My thoughts are with those in London. Londoners have been through more than this, and their resolve is inspiring.

I work across from the Pentagon and was outside when the plane hit. When I went inside to try to find out what happened, the first of the Twin Towers had been hit and the second about to be hit. One of my workers was scheduled to fly to California from Dulles that morning, but had changed flights unknown to any of us. That day changed the United States. That day was the equivalent of Pearl Harbor in my Father's Day.

 

[childers-jk]

Hoorahh Andy. I love that quote.

Jeff C.

 

[reagan]

Andy, what an inspiring quote!! I'll be passing it along to many friends. Thanks, and carry on, carry on!

 

[Pherdinand]

Sometimes I feel ashamed that I am a human being.