London explosion

[BlackShanglan]

So sorry, Joe. And know what you mean, Neon, about the power of emotional reactions. When I was driving to work on September 11th, I was listening to public radio, normal programming. Suddenly it went completely dead and silent, and then they came on with the news of the attacks.

Where I live now, the NPR station has a dodgy transmitter. Sometimes it just goes out for a few seconds and then back on.

I feel it. Every time.

Shanglan

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

So sorry, Joe. And know what you mean, Neon, about the power of emotional reactions. When I was driving to work on September 11th, I was listening to public radio, normal programming. Suddenly it went completely dead and silent, and then they came on with the news of the attacks.

Where I live now, the NPR station has a dodgy transmitter. Sometimes it just goes out for a few seconds and then back on.

I feel it. Every time.

Shanglan

Shang, that's the same type of reaction I have every time I hear an incoming helicopter or an unexpected, loud explosion. I understand it's one of the milder symptoms of PTSD.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Cat,

I don't believe Pops54 has been heard from. But he hasn't been around on a regular bases the last month or two so he's probably okay, I hope.

Rumple Foreskin

I was finally able to track down pop_54, and he (and fam) are doing well.

Just thought I'd update anyone interested.



~lucky

 

[SeaCat]

I was finally able to track down pop_54, and he (and fam) are doing well.

Just thought I'd update anyone interested.



~lucky

Thank you for letting us know.

Cat

 

[BlackShanglan]

Shang, that's the same type of reaction I have every time I hear an incoming helicopter or an unexpected, loud explosion. I understand it's one of the milder symptoms of PTSD.

Rumple Foreskin

It was worse where we used to live. I drove past downtown and the airport to go to work. Pretty much every day you'd see a plane flying (from your lack of depth perspective) right at skyscraper.

Mostly, it passes. What remains ... well, perhaps it's best it remain.

Shanglan

 

[English Lady]

Mat and Og -thanks for reminding me. I hope he's ok

Lucky -good to know pops is ok thanks for passing on the info

 

[Black Tulip]

I'm glad to hear Pops has been accounted for.
I know Hotchkiss lives in Kent, just wondered where he works.
He's probably ok, just minding his own business.

 

[oggbashan]

From Yahoo (UK) News:

Tuesday July 12, 05:17 PM

Police: All Four Terror Bombers Died
Personal documents of four suspected bombers were found near the bomb scenes of the London terror attacks, police have said.All four suspected bombers died during the attacks, police suspect.

The men travelled down from west Yorkshire and arrived at Kings Cross station shortly before the attacks were launched on Thursday morning and their images were captured by CCTV cameras.

One man has just been arrested in west Yorkshire in connection with the attacks.

Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt said three bombers died in separate Tube attacks and one was killed in the No 30 bus blast.

Detectives believe all four were British citizens, Brunt said.

It is still not clear if the attackers were all suicide bombers.

This follows witness reports of a man on the bus in an agitated state constantly looking into his bag before the blast in Tavistock Square.

Brunt said police had made a number of arrests in Leeds today in relation to last Thursday's bombings.

They were also poised to make arrests in London, he said.

The news comes as armed police search a house in Leeds after the Army used a controlled explosion to get in.

Hundreds of people had already been evacuated from the area around Hyde Park Road, Burley.

No one was in the house at the time but armed officers had been used as a precaution.

Five other homes in Leeds had earlier been raided by police hunting the terrorists behind last week's attacks.

Neighbours at one of the addresses said a 22-year-old man who lived there with his family had gone missing.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said the raids were "directly connected" to Thursday's atrocity.

Hours later, police evacuated Luton railway station and car park to recover a vehicle suspected of being linked with the terrorist attacks.

The car was blown up in two controlled explosions.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I was finally able to track down pop_54, and he (and fam) are doing well.

Just thought I'd update anyone interested.



~lucky

thank God and thank you lucky

 

[matriarch]

12 noon, GMT tomorrow, Thursday 14 July.

A two-minute silence, nationwide, in memory of those killed and injured.

This will be taking place throughout the whole country. Offices, shops, schools, transport, streets, parks, docks, airports.

I hope that some of our dear friends on Lit all over the world will be able to spare two minutes to join us.

 

[cloudy]

12 noon, GMT tomorrow, Thursday 14 July.

A two-minute silence, nationwide, in memory of those killed and injured.

This will be taking place throughout the whole country. Offices, shops, schools, transport, streets, parks, docks, airports.

I hope that some of our dear friends on Lit all over the world will be able to spare two minutes to join us.

Thanks for sharing, Mat.

 

[OZ 73]

what for

All that for the bulshit of 70 odd virgins in paradise when everyone over 25 knowsa that virgins are a pretty poor bonk anyway. Still if your gods a bit weak I suppose he needs some help to punish you fornicators and infidels.

 

[moonlight elf]

12 noon, GMT tomorrow, Thursday 14 July.

A two-minute silence, nationwide, in memory of those killed and injured.

This will be taking place throughout the whole country. Offices, shops, schools, transport, streets, parks, docks, airports.

I hope that some of our dear friends on Lit all over the world will be able to spare two minutes to join us.

Can and will do, Auntie.

 

[moonlight elf]

I was finally able to track down pop_54, and he (and fam) are doing well.

Just thought I'd update anyone interested.



~lucky

Glad to hear. Thanks for letting us know.

 

[oggbashan]

12 noon, GMT tomorrow, Thursday 14 July.

A two-minute silence, nationwide, in memory of those killed and injured.

This will be taking place throughout the whole country. Offices, shops, schools, transport, streets, parks, docks, airports.

I hope that some of our dear friends on Lit all over the world will be able to spare two minutes to join us.

Sorry, Mat.

It's 12 noon British Summer Time, an hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. However Literotica appears to think that BST is GMT.

I'm sure that whenever people observe the silence it will count.

Og

 

[TheEarl]

2 minutes silence just finished.

The Earl

 

[minsue]

Posting for Mats -

Southern England.
Thursday 14 July 2005.
Noon

Feeling very sombre.

Just been outside in the High Street, in the sunshine, with hundreds of other people, to observe the two minutes' silence at midday. A beautiful, warm, sunny summer day in England, hundreds of miles from the carnage of Central London, but at that moment, we were all there.

Some traffic stopped, a lot didn't which I found disappointing. But it was heartening to see groups of people appearing on the pavement (sidewalk), from shops and offices, and a group of elderly ladies from the Unitarian Church across the road. I would estimate at a quick glance along my section of the High Street, the number was in the hundreds who were simply gathered in groups, talking quietly, and then falling silent when a bell was sounded in the building behind me.

There was a postman, walking along the street, who simply stopped, put down his bag and removed his cap. A man walking with his young son, who stopped, bobbed down and put his arm around the boy. Whether it was protection or thankfulness I know not, it moved me all the same.

County Hall where I work, is right in the centre of town, on the edge of the main traffic intersection for the area, with something like 6 main roads feeding into it, and the high street, the main road through the town, is one of them, and runs right past county hall. This intersection and road is usually never silent or still, except for a time in the middle of the night. But during that two minutes, there was one space of time, maybe only 10 or 15 seconds.....when there was total silence. No traffic, no squealing brakes, no sirens........nothing........it made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.

When the bell sounded for the end of the two minutes, most people either found it difficult to talk. It was a very silent, sombre and thoughtful group who made their way back up the stairs to their offices, with the sound of the church ladies across the road, softly singing a hymn.

We remembered them.
We will always remember them.

I really need to hug someone right now.
I'm hugging you all in my heart.

Mat

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Southern England.
Thursday 14 July 2005.
Noon

Feeling very sombre.

Just been outside in the High Street, in the sunshine, with hundreds of other people, to observe the two minutes' silence at midday. A beautiful, warm, sunny summer day in England, hundreds of miles from the carnage of Central London, but at that moment, we were all there.

Some traffic stopped, a lot didn't which I found disappointing. But it was heartening to see groups of people appearing on the pavement (sidewalk), from shops and offices, and a group of elderly ladies from the Unitarian Church across the road. I would estimate at a quick glance along my section of the High Street, the number was in the hundreds who were simply gathered in groups, talking quietly, and then falling silent when a bell was sounded in the building behind me.

There was a postman, walking along the street, who simply stopped, put down his bag and removed his cap. A man walking with his young son, who stopped, bobbed down and put his arm around the boy. Whether it was protection or thankfulness I know not, it moved me all the same.

County Hall where I work, is right in the centre of town, on the edge of the main traffic intersection for the area, with something like 6 main roads feeding into it, and the high street, the main road through the town, is one of them, and runs right past county hall. This intersection and road is usually never silent or still, except for a time in the middle of the night. But during that two minutes, there was one space of time, maybe only 10 or 15 seconds.....when there was total silence. No traffic, no squealing brakes, no sirens........nothing........it made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.

When the bell sounded for the end of the two minutes, most people either found it difficult to talk. It was a very silent, sombre and thoughtful group who made their way back up the stairs to their offices, with the sound of the church ladies across the road, softly singing a hymn.

We remembered them.
We will always remember them.

I really need to hug someone right now.
I'm hugging you all in my heart.

Mat

OK, that just made me cry.

 

[minsue]

OK, that just made me cry.

 

[TheEarl]

OK, that just made me cry.

<manly hug>

Seconded.

The Earl

 

[English Lady]

*hugs mat, Earl, CD and Minsue*


I was out, just going to the post office when the silence happened. We walked along the road to see a group of people gathered outside the library. we stopped, even Beth was quiet when i hastily whispered why we were being quiet.

It was sombre. It was touching to see so many remembering.

 

[AppleBiter]

In remembrance.

 

[matriarch]

Going to watch the news in a few minutes......I know sure as apples is apples, I'm going to cry at all the scenes of silences everywhere.

I'll come back when its over.

But I am so glad that we are not ashamed to show our emotions, our feelings. Scenes such as these give me so much hope for mankind, despite all the crap that's going on all over.

Real people, ordinary people, DO care. They care enormously.

Thank heavens.

 

[matriarch]

Just as Lou said.
Such quiet dignity, and infinitely moving.

Adding my silent tears to those on the screen.

 

[oggbashan]

I observed the two minute silence by the War Memorial in Dover.

Unfortunately I was one of very few, but those few were from several countries.

Og