Heartland

Not really a birthday. More a day of remembrance...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5153678.stm


IZ.

Yep. I remember a couple of cool HL'ers keeping me calm whilst I sat in an office 5 minutes from Aldgate not knowing what the hell was going on.

You know who you are and who I was then. Thanks.

B

I think even I remember that... there was someone near the attacks we were all worried about...

IZ.

A very scary day in London. When the phone lines went down my only communication was via HL. Later on as people tried to find thier way home the atmosphere was almost surreal but you could sense the spirit of London. Beaten but not bowed.

Friendships forged with strangers that day, that exist to this day.

My thoughts are with those who never made it home.

Johnny M wrote:My thoughts are with those who never made it home.

What more can you say?

We were perfectly safe but it's one of the worst atmospheres I can remember being in - just having no idea of what was actually happening and sat watching people staggering down the road covered in soot crying.

As Johnny said - no communication except HL.

I liked how they didn't all sit about crying and getting scared, but just went back to school/work the next day, determined to not let it get the better of them.

Dark wrote:I liked how they didn't all sit about crying and getting scared, but just went back to school/work the next day, determined to not let it get the better of them.

That’s the British for you. “my head is bloody, but unbowed.�

lest we forget

most of the events from the period can be tracked via a handful of posts here: clicky

I felt totally on a different planet from what was going on, until I read Johnnys' posts that day - very moving.

I used to live near Aldgate (before the attacks). Anybody in London could have been a victim, so it was the first time an event like this seemed so close.