LONDON TUBE BOMBINGS
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DEJA VU--LONDON TUBE BOMBINGS
Terrorists bombed the London underground and a double-decker bus today. Terrorists?Let's just call terrorists what they really are--murderers.
These sorts of attacks are nothing new to London. When we lived in a small village some 45 minutes out of London, we traveled the rail and tube system constantly. My DH drove into Heathrow airport everyday for work and one day as he was driving by Terminal 2, it exploded. Then the train we consistently took from our village into the city was bombed. That was twenty years ago and those acts were attributed to the IRA then.
Corporate security came to England and advised us how not to become terrorists targets, which Americans seem to always be. We were advised to always keep the cars' gas tanks full, never take the same route to work or school, and never look or talk like an American. That's the toughest "never do" for most American ex-patriots living abroad. It seems in our genes to be open, trusting, enthusiastic and outgoing. The high school kids were warned not to wear their American School jackets into town and to play it low profile. We were told not to travel to Egypt, Greece, the Middle East or into Africa, places I'd always wanted to go.
Later during the first Gulf war, our friends (actually he was a schoolmate of my father's) who were in Iraq on a short assignment were taken captive by Sadam's troops and used as slave labor and human shields. The company finally got them released and he retired.
The war on terror . . . sounds like another contradictory saying, support mental health like crazy, doesn't it. I pray constantly for our sons and daughters in the American military who are sent around the world to fight a war that always has a different face, a different place, a different code name. I'm not isolationist but I always wonder are they all our wars to fight?
Oh. My.
Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMMMMelinda
DEJA VU--LONDON TUBE BOMBINGS
Terrorists bombed the London underground and a double-decker bus today. Terrorists?Let's just call terrorists what they really are--murderers.
These sorts of attacks are nothing new to London. When we lived in a small village some 45 minutes out of London, we traveled the rail and tube system constantly. My DH drove into Heathrow airport everyday for work and one day as he was driving by Terminal 2, it exploded. Then the train we consistently took from our village into the city was bombed. That was twenty years ago and those acts were attributed to the IRA then.
Corporate security came to England and advised us how not to become terrorists targets, which Americans seem to always be. We were advised to always keep the cars' gas tanks full, never take the same route to work or school, and never look or talk like an American. That's the toughest "never do" for most American ex-patriots living abroad. It seems in our genes to be open, trusting, enthusiastic and outgoing. The high school kids were warned not to wear their American School jackets into town and to play it low profile. We were told not to travel to Egypt, Greece, the Middle East or into Africa, places I'd always wanted to go.
Later during the first Gulf war, our friends (actually he was a schoolmate of my father's) who were in Iraq on a short assignment were taken captive by Sadam's troops and used as slave labor and human shields. The company finally got them released and he retired.
The war on terror . . . sounds like another contradictory saying, support mental health like crazy, doesn't it. I pray constantly for our sons and daughters in the American military who are sent around the world to fight a war that always has a different face, a different place, a different code name. I'm not isolationist but I always wonder are they all our wars to fight?
Oh. My.
Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMMMMelinda
posted by MMMelinda at 10:36 AM
