Heroes

[rinue]

London stayed functional during the Blitz, months and months of nightly bombing and not knowing if the next one would be poison gas, or the prelude to a German invasion. People slept in shelters all night, went home to change clothes and check if their houses were still there, and then went to work. When I'm scared, which takes something pretty big, I think of that bravery and decency, and I make it through. I'm thinking of London today - and Madrid - and I feel sadness and anger. But most of all, I am filled with admiration for Londoners' understated and unbreakable valor, even in times darker than these.

Comments

[hipgunslinger.livejournal.com]

My mother and I were talking about how interesting it was to see the difference between the american reaction and the british reaction to an attack like this. She very quickly pointed out that most of the people living in london at this time will probably very easily remember a time when the IRA was particularly active with explosives in London.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my reaction when I first heard about the London bombing was roughly: "Seriously? What asshats." Of all the cities in the world, bombing London? Who hasn't London been sacked by, from Roman times onward - and yet, there it is, still being London. What could they possibly have hoped to accomplish, other than hurting some random people for no clear reason? Londoners aren't going to panic. My leading theory is that it was an attempt to attack public transit in general so that people will buy more cars and use more oil... maybe it was actually masterminded by the company that makes stretch Hummers.