Bad News From London

[Karen Barker]

Well I've just watched the joint emergency services news conference 
and the latest is 33 dead plus the dead from the bus.  As I 
understand it they can't tell how many bodies there are there, which 
is not surprising seeing pictures of it.  

I've only got one friend now who still works in London (most of us 
have moved out over the years) and she travels via Victoria Station 
so though she's very likely stuck there, she should at least be 
unharmed.

I lived in central London when the IRA were causing chaos on an 
almost daily basis where we were continually being either evacuated 
out of, or herded to the back of the building I worked in and once 
when a car blew up on the next corner from ours.  It sounds stupid 
but you become used to it after a while.  It's been a few years now 
since that's been going on though so this has come somewhat out of 
the blue, particulary after the wave of euphoria that swept through 
the country yesterday.

All you can do is pray for the victims and their families and carry 
on as normal, because if you change your way of life that's when 
terrorists win.

Karen

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, shalimar07 at a... wrote:
> There is nothing any of us can say except that our thoughts and 
prayers are  
> with you all.  I have lost personal friends to terrorism and all I 
can say  is 
> Stand Tall and never waiver. 
>  
> Shalimar
> 
> 
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