London explosion

[joeys-game]

We just heard...the relatives are ok in London...!!!!!!
Man i feel like cryin im so relieved!
J

 

[Guest]

We just heard...the relatives are ok in London...!!!!!!
Man i feel like cryin im so relieved!
J

So glad to hear that!

 

[ElizabethWest]

We just heard...the relatives are ok in London...!!!!!!
Man i feel like cryin im so relieved!
J

Great news Joey!

 

[English Lady]

We just heard...the relatives are ok in London...!!!!!!
Man i feel like cryin im so relieved!
J

thank goodness *hugs* thanks for letting us know, I'm so relieved for you.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Having just watched footage of people walking the streets of London around the bombing areas, with photographs of missing loved ones......I can't speak, my throat just closes up at what they are going through.

- A couple just along the coast from me, who's son texted them minutes before the first blast, to say he'd just arrived at Liverpool street......he was in London that day only to attend a training course. They haven't heard from him since. The pain on his mother's face will haunt me for days.

- A muslim family in London, where the daughter/sister/niece/granddaughter has disappeared, last heard from just before the bombs went off.....once again, the tears of the father and grandfather.....men unashamedly showing their pain and grief.

- A brother, desperately trying to find his younger sister, travelling to work on the tube. She never arrived at work, and nothing has been heard.

These stories and many more - the individuals - bring the pain, the horror,the heartache, the sheer bloody fucking waste of life, thundering into my heart and head.

It just goes on and on.

Yes. Terrible loss. I remember reading a young man's words about his girlfriend, whom he was searching for with her father. "We're just praying that she's hit her head or something, and someone's looking after her." Poor man. I pray someone is.

There are other images that will stay with me as well, though. One is a picture of a young man with spiky black hair, looking like someone ready for the clubs or the pubs. He'd been injured and was laying down. Supporting his head was a silver-haired man in a pinstriped suit who looked like he'd just come from the Hallowed Halls of Business. It was good, that image of them helping each other.

And, to my utter astonishment, the Sun was actually shocked into half-decent behavior. I was cringing opening their website, half-expecting a "kill the bastards" headline. Instead, it has the pictures of two women with the caption "<above> Pray for them all. <below> Two beautiful, decent women. One Christian. One Muslim. Both missing with dozens more."

I do pray for them, and for their families.

 

[oggbashan]

Birmingham

Tonight parts of Birmingham (UK) city centre have been evacuated because of a bomb threat.

Whether there are bombs in Birmingham or not, those who planted the bombs in London know that the threat that they could put more bombs elsewhere multiplies the disruption.

And of course there are sick individuals who think that now is a good time to make a hoax phone call reporting a bomb...

Og

 

[joeys-game]

thank goodness *hugs* thanks for letting us know, I'm so relieved for you.

Hi EL thank you so much for your kind words and support and hugs yesterday..and eveyone else too..
You guys really reminded me what it was like to be around a bunch of brits.
thinking and remembering fondly.

joey

 

[English Lady]

I pray Birmingham is ok, and if bombs there were/are they've been dealt with safely.

Joeys-game, you're welcome love, anytime.I'm just glad you got some good news.

 

[erise]

They say now on the radio that the Birmingham threats were probablt bogus and that evacuated people are returning home.

I'm still a little shaky, it was to close a call for my cousin. I was going to London to see her next week. This is not going to stop me.

 

[minsue]

This is not going to stop me.

Good.

 

[matriarch]

They say now on the radio that the Birmingham threats were probablt bogus and that evacuated people are returning home.

I'm still a little shaky, it was to close a call for my cousin. I was going to London to see her next week. This is not going to stop me.

Good for you Erise.

Thousands and thousands of people were not stopped from turning out in the capital today, to commemmorate the 60th anniversary of VE day. It was an awesome display of solidarity, emotion and pride.

 

[TheEarl]

And, to my utter astonishment, the Sun was actually shocked into half-decent behavior. I was cringing opening their website, half-expecting a "kill the bastards" headline. Instead, it has the pictures of two women with the caption "<above> Pray for them all. <below> Two beautiful, decent women. One Christian. One Muslim. Both missing with dozens more."

I do pray for them, and for their families.

No Page 3 either. Just pictures of family members holding up photos of their unaccounted, hoping against hope that they would be found. I hate the Sun with a vengeance, but that front page spoke as eloquently as Ken Livingstone's speech.

The Earl

 

[BlackShanglan]

No Page 3 either.

You're kidding me.

Damnit.

Please don't tell me I'm going to have to start respecting the Sun. Julia Roberts was hard enough.

But good on them for doing the decent thing.

 

[oggbashan]

London carries on

Today, 60 years after VE Day, tens of thousands of people packed The Mall for a celebration to remember the events of 60 years ago.

Those who came were reminded of this week's bombing but it had not deterred the veterans nor all those who came to thank them.

Og

 

[Guest]

No Page 3 either. Just pictures of family members holding up photos of their unaccounted, hoping against hope that they would be found. I hate the Sun with a vengeance, but that front page spoke as eloquently as Ken Livingstone's speech.

The Earl

The pictures - all those pictures.

That's one of the many horrific memories I have from 9/11. Hundreds of anguished people carrying pictures of their missing loved ones; it's very doubtful any were ever reunited.

From London - their suffering is so apparent as they ask for help in locating family members, I feel as if we're intruding upon their grief. And I grieve for them as they wait for the officials to complete the recovery effort, as they retrieve the rest of the murdered victims.

for everyone personally affected by this latest tragedy and for the rest of the world as we attempt to combat senseless violence.

 

[SeaCat]

Not to interupt but has everyone checked in?

Cat

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Not to interupt but has everyone checked in?

Cat

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

 

[Black Tulip]

Pop doesn't live near London. Should be ok.
I haven't heard from Hotchkiss yet. He's been absent before but still.

 

[English Lady]

Is hotchkiss anywhere near London?I can't remember you know (Sorry love, mind like a sieve!) I hope he's fine

 

[NoJo]

I just heard that a guy who was about to join the small medical company I'm working for has been missing since the attack.

A Japanese medical researcher who I work with is too upset to travel from her home in Bloomsbury (about 100 yards from the bus bomb). She expained to me that she was on a beach in Thailand on December 26th when the Tsunami hit, and the combination of that trauma with her experience of the bomb has left her with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Her professor was injured and has had to have a leg amputated. The awful irony is that her field of study is PTSD.

Sorry to only post on this sad thread at the moment.

Nipples and bum-cheeks <-- feeble attempt to prove that this is still a smut forum

 

[neonlyte]

Sorry to hear that Joe. Seems to be no end to the grief.

We heard today from two sets of friends who were in London that day - both ok. At the moment no one in the family wants to travel by public transport into London, at least, not for pleasure, entertainment can wait until the cloud passes. I know it is irrational, but there it is.

 

[Belegon]

Sorry to only post on this sad thread at the moment.
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no worries, friend. for what it is worth, our thoughts are with you and the wonderful city you live in...

 

[Guest]

I just heard that a guy who was about to join the small medical company I'm working for has been missing since the attack.

A Japanese medical researcher who I work with is too upset to travel from her home in Bloomsbury (about 100 yards from the bus bomb). She expained to me that she was on a beach in Thailand on December 26th when the Tsunami hit, and the combination of that trauma with her experience of the bomb has left her with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Her professor was injured and has had to have a leg amputated. The awful irony is that her field of study is PTSD.

Sorry to only post on this sad thread at the moment.

Nipples and bum-cheeks <-- feeble attempt to prove that this is still a smut forum

*HUGS*

Sending you and your friends and colleagues much love, Joe.

 

[matriarch]

Is hotchkiss anywhere near London?I can't remember you know (Sorry love, mind like a sieve!) I hope he's fine

Kent, same as Ogg.

 

[oggbashan]

Kent, same as Ogg.

We are at extreme ends of Kent, me North East, Hotchkiss South West.

He is in commuter belt Kent. I don't know where he works. I used to commute to London from a village a couple of stations further away.

I'm 65 miles from London and about 45 from Hotchkiss.

Og