Sinister: Shock

[Stuart Gardiner]

It's been alarmingly easy to feel detached from what's gone on back home in 
the last few days, now that I'm living in the US. London feels a very long 
way away. I've been explaining to Americans with an almost blaze optimism 
why the bombings won't change Londoners' way of life. And how the Olympics 
will have a much bigger long-term impact than bombers ever can.

And then this morning, four days later, on the Times newspaper website, I 
finally find what I've been waiting for - a list of the missing. And I come 
across a name I recognise.



At the moment, there's just a numbness. The details of what happened, and 
why, seem pretty irrelevant right now. Any deaths, whatever the cause, are a 
tragedy for friends and family; but when it's someone so friendly and 
caring, with so much to offer and so much willingness to do so, it strikes 
home particularly hard. And of course I know there are other people on here, 
and one in particular, feeling so much worse.

Apparently there's going to be a 2-minute silence in the UK on Thursday at 
noon. That's in the middle of the night for some of us, but I'm certain 
we'll all remember on that day in our own ways.

We will go on. We must go on. But we will never forget.


Big Stu


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