Thanks Lynn for your thoughts.
Pity your President didn't offer any (has he got his speech writer with
him?). After Tony Bair's second speech from the G8 talks abouth the
incident, George Bush spoke to the media. Not a word of sympathy or thoughts
of any kind for those involved. Just a statement that he'd contacted those
responsible for homeland security to make sure that the US was well
protected. I've been watching developments for most of the day, and as far
as I know (not surprisingly) his speech wasn't broadcast again.
My older brother and his son were both in London today. Fortunately they
were both on the underground ahead of the bombs. Don't know if either of
them have got to their homes yet, but I know they're safe.
There were emergency sirens for a good part of the day in Poole. As usually
happens when there's an incident, there were alerts at other train stations,
and Poole was one of three or four in the south with direct routes to London
where suspicious packages were found. Turned out to be harmless.
Having lived with terrorism (mostly from the IRA) for many years, we tend to
take this kind of thing in our stride. In the 70s, I worked in London, where
bomb threats happened regularly. We used to take an evacuation as an excuse
for a couple of hours shopping, with the attitude that if we got caught in a
blast, that was our destiny.
Jean in Poole
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