Prayers for London

[michcapish]

"Near simultaneous explosions rocked the London Tube and three double-decker buses at the morning rush hour today." (http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/scores-injured-in-multiple-london-blasts/2005/07/07/ ( Read more... )

Comments

[criosdan]

yeah been watching it too, just called some of my friends here who didnt know about it, they are now trying to reach their families.

[michcapish]

*hugs* i am so sad. :((((

[criosdan]

how long before its Australia's time? makes you think.

[michcapish]

we're relatively low-risk but the threat is there. it's just not talked about. :(

[la_aquarius]

I'm listening to NPR at work here, and we've only been updated to two deaths and 90 casualties. You've heard twenty deaths? Lord...

There are still people stuck in the Underground, I think, as well...

[michcapish]

my info could be incorrect. but the last count includes those who died from the bus explosion.

i am so sad right now. for this and other reasons. :(((

ugh.

[la_aquarius]

What else is wrong, Mich?

[michcapish]

:(((((((. i'll write about it maybe another time. :(

[j_licks]

my prayers are going out...

[michcapish]

:( *hugs*

off of cnn.com

[winnewinn]

Police issue the following casualty hotline number for people concerned about friends and relatives: +44 (0)870 1566 344.

my prayers are with everyone ...

Re: off of cnn.com

[michcapish]

thank you. there's an oz hotline as well. :(

[pink_idiocy]

It is totally nonsensical.

I know you love London. I would probably love it as much as you do had I lived there myself. I know a part of us dies when a place close to heart is killed, regardless of the size or wealth of that place, knowing you can never go back again. But we never can go back again anyway. But for the pain of nostalgia.

I remember a concentration camp survivor recounting the feeling he had when the Nazi truck they were riding to take them to another camp passed by his hometwon. It stopped momentarily in the square, the streets now dry and deserted and deathly quiet. How the memories of home and family and roses and love rushed back to him. And how he wanted to run toward the pavement and hug it and cry as the truck sped away.

It's so bad when people's lives are destroyed just because a few men up high don't comprehend each other.

[michcapish]

thank you for this thoughtful comment. :) i agree with your last paragraph.

i just think of those people who were killed and how the lives of their family and friends will be changed forever. long after this doesn't make the front pages, there are thousands of people who will always remember. :(