I am relieved to have just heard from a dear friend who works in London. Fortunately, he was nowhere near the various sites of the terrorist attacks last Thursday. He had a bit to say about the cowards who killed innocent Londoners but I'd like to share what he observed on the the subway:
"On Monday I went into the tube for the first time since the explosions and it was eerie. I noticed something was missing - chatter. People were very silent and very pensive and understandably apprehensive."
Evidently, there is a plan for two minutes of silence tomorrow at Noon GMT (7AM EDT). The text of an email that is being circulated throughout the UK about observing the two minutes of silence is below. I will take those two minutes out of my day to share their silence. I hope you all will too.
"At 12 o'clock noon this Thursday there's going to be a two minute silence to remember the victims of the bombs which exploded a week earlier, during rush hour last Thursday morning. Buses will stop, businesses will stop, everything still for two minutes.
It's a gesture of compassion and sympathy and remembrance, but also maybe a gesture of defiance - and so there's a thought that wherever we are, we should go out on to the streets, and observe the silence there, in public.
The whole of Britain, standing on our streets, which we will always own and defend, in silence.
Please pass this on to everyone you know."
Glad you're unharmed and still spitting fire, Reebs! Thanks for the insight.
"On Monday I went into the tube for the first time since the explosions and it was eerie. I noticed something was missing - chatter. People were very silent and very pensive and understandably apprehensive."
Evidently, there is a plan for two minutes of silence tomorrow at Noon GMT (7AM EDT). The text of an email that is being circulated throughout the UK about observing the two minutes of silence is below. I will take those two minutes out of my day to share their silence. I hope you all will too.
"At 12 o'clock noon this Thursday there's going to be a two minute silence to remember the victims of the bombs which exploded a week earlier, during rush hour last Thursday morning. Buses will stop, businesses will stop, everything still for two minutes.
It's a gesture of compassion and sympathy and remembrance, but also maybe a gesture of defiance - and so there's a thought that wherever we are, we should go out on to the streets, and observe the silence there, in public.
The whole of Britain, standing on our streets, which we will always own and defend, in silence.
Please pass this on to everyone you know."
Glad you're unharmed and still spitting fire, Reebs! Thanks for the insight.
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