death help: In memory of the 7/7/05 bombings. - Help.com

RIP. God called them to real home.

It changed this place forever - and not in a good way. May they rest in peace - Mas

May the victims rest in peace.
May the surviving dependants grow stronger.

May the world use a positive approach and accept that there is no ‘them’.
There is only ‘us’. And we all belong in that group of ‘us’.

My friend and her 2 children were travelling down to London to spend the holidays with me that day - I will never forget the frantic phone calls until we knew they were safe. I dont care what they were supposedely fighting for - those bastards should burn in Hell forever - at least our guys put on a uniform. - Mas

Sorry bit off topic there - Mas

thank you dear for helping us Yanks remember. We of course had our own issues here… if it doesn’t touch you, then it is far too easy to forget. Even the World Trade towers is distant enough for million’s to forget. Oh, everyone remembers 9/11, but do they remember the horror? Do they remember the silence in the air 2 days later when not a single plane was allowed to launch? Or a week later whenever a jet would pass by how we would take notice of it. But that is part of the human condition, to move past our hurdles and keep going. Attacks that changed the face of the world forever. God bless those innocent lives that were stolen from us by a murders hand. God bless those that were injured, and those that came to their aid in such a terrible hour of need. God bless those that fight for the rights and freedom of others.

never forget, never repeat - God bless and rest in peace :S

I remember that day - I was in the office on a phone call with a client who started rambling about a radio message - I told my coworkers to turn on the radio. It was horrible. Lots of people left their stations and started calling friends. I just felt sick and numb.
9/11 was also horrible. I watched the whole thing on the telly. I had nightmares for weeks afterwards. Even more frightening is that my Dad was also having nightmares. I woke him up from 1.

I learnt just how fragile humans really are that day :S and that we are not invincible.

Thing is Ditzy - there comes a day when you realise that your parents aren’t superheroes, for a lot of children in the US it was 9/11 and here it was 7/7 and then 21/7 when they couldnt (thankfully) work out how to blow themselves up. But I would argue that it makes us fragile Ditzy - we are still here - bringing up the next generation best we can and instilling love in them. If we allowed those freaks to change our path - then they would have won. We are stronger than that, - the human race is kind, if allowed to be, I celebrate the freedom that we have in our respective countries to be able to write to each other every day - my perfect world will be when we can all do that. - Mas

All those who perished RIP. They shall received their just reward in heaven.

I remember this event. It got pretty good coverage on the US news. We were all fairly concerned b/c London is a lot like New York, so many Americans could definitely relate. I am so glad that they’ve been able to curtail the attacks and keep London safe since!

That day, I arrived at school to hear the news. Staff got onto the computers and kept watching the live news reports. Then we had to go to class and teach, it was a very strange day, even the pupls were subdued. Staff kept whispering the latest news to each other all day. Those poor kids were worried sick and kept wanting to know if it was going to happen to them. I spent the day trying to reassure them whilst being completely freaked out. I will be watching the memorial documentary that is starting in 15 minutes.

May they all rest in peace. However, I would like to see some justice for those that were injured. Most have only received a couple of thousand pounds, nowhere near enough to make disabled conversions necessary to their houses. Yet a typist in the navy got nearly half a million for RSI. This needs to be sorted out. Three years later they are still waiting for a justice that will never come.

R.I.P to all the people who experienced that tragedy. Sorry to the ones waiting and worrying if their family members were hurt:S Good that they’ve been able to keep it safe since.

My prayers go out to all of the people who lost their lives on that day and to their families.

May the dead rest in peace.

So true Shellfish - as a nation we united - our government should maybe take note of that. They have handed millions to the injured that we shot/blown up in Iraq yet people from 7/7 still have no real justice/compensation to make normal living possible. What is it they think? That because those bastards blew themselves into Hell that justice has been done? As long as I walk this Earth it needs to be seen to be done - this country should be ashamed of how we have treated those survivors and the dependants of those who perished. - Mas

♥Rαvεr♥ wrote:
So many people forget this day…its only been 3years and already most people forget.

It was the same kind of terror as when 9/11 occured. These victims deserve our thoughts too.

exactly right… they all deserve to be remembered. thank you for sharing.

Raver - I couldnt mark your whole post as quotable - but I have marked your first reply. This post has touched me more than I can ever express here and I’m proud to know you Raver. You are what this country should be made of. Top girl - Mas

Amen to that.

I remember the event. I remember the senseless death. I remember it described as “Britain’s 9/11″ as if this was the worst horror man could imagine. I remember thinking it strange that we are encouraged to “never forget” those from these shores who lost their lives, innocent bystanders who never asked for this. It is strange because we are actively discouraged from feeling any empathy towards the thousands upon thousands who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, people who, like those who died in London, never asked for the violence and terror that is being wrought upon them, still.
We must “never forget” that “terrorists” could strike at anytime, anywhere. We must never think that for the peoples of the war ravaged Iraq and Afghanistan, this is not just a veiled threat, a back of the mind anxiety whilst shopping or commuting, this is the reality of their daily lives, as we “combat terror” with our “aerial bombardments” and “police actions” and “unfortunate collateral damage”

Fear is not just what “terrorists” want. Its what draconian governments NEED. Fear is what stops you from asking those awkward questions about human rights and private defense contractors and government complicity and massive private sector profits and defence spending and the senseless loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, at home and abroad. We are facing the new faceless bogeyman of the governments creation, move over Reds under the bed, now we have Islamoterror!
The London bombings, like the events of September 11 before them, were an appalling, tragic, senseless waste of human life. We should never forget. We should never attribute those lives to have any greater value than the estimated one and a quarter million Iraqi lives lost since the illegal occupation began. Nameless, faceless, expendable. Almost forgotten already.
God help us.

Paranormalman - you were the one voice that perhaps should have been heard on behalf of the forgotten victims in other lands - thereagain - these were our people - and I grieve for them and their families - that is what 7/7 is about - us giving a little time to our own innocent victims. Ours may be smaller in number but the gap they have left and the impact on this country cannot be diminished. We might be small but we all count - Mas

Indeed everyone counts. It simply seems that some count more than others. Remembering is not enough. We must pledge to make it stop. We will never make it stop by ratcheting up racial tension, mistrust and fear. We will never make it stop by creating the very conditions which allow others to rail against our actions and vow to bring their fight to our doorsteps also. To fight violent action with violent action produces only death and greater suffering and eternal conflict.
And just to clear it up, I am a person. A human being. All people are my people. When we focus on our differences we foment the conditions for division and conflict. We all bleed the same colour.
The dead are beyond our help. Use whatever drive their senseless loss gives you to fight for the living who’s voices go ignored and unheard. They are the ones who need our help. We cannot undo the past. We can only hope to learn from it and avoid making the same mistakes in the present.

The dead are not beyond our help - we are their voice - Mas

I didn’t know anything about this.

You are brave to post this, it seems to me everytime a stand is taken against terrorism of any kind, that there is always saying something it being racist and how wrong you are for saying it.

I herald you for standing up and saying this.

Bless You For Not Forgetting the Innocent!

raver… not to be an a$$ or anything, but you’re compairing 700 deaths to thousands of deaths from 9/11!!! seriously!

now i agree ONE death is a tragedy, but come on now… compairing the london bombings to 9/11 is like compairing the eifel tower to an ant hill….

How dare you - people dont compare deaths (apart from you obviously) - every death is a tragedy to the family of that person. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, grandparents. Ooooh why is it always the nice people they blow up. This world is so full of idiots.

We are a lovely country and Raver took the time to honour our people - what exactly is your problem with that - you wish we had more dead? That’s how it sounds - you fool

Every death that has been caused by those monsters is a tragedy - Mas

Oh and if you want to crunch numbers - compare the percentage of our population to yours and I think you will find that you are on the ant hill mate

dude, read my post again… i do believe i stated that ONE death is a tragedy …