Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London

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Ameriscot

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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/28/77-london-bombings-10th-anniversary-terror-attacks

I remember this day very well. I was home from work that week with shingles. The day before the bombings Britain was elated as London had been awarded the 2012 Olympics. I was elated as I learned my first grandchild would be born by c-section one week later, on the 14th.

At first no one seemed sure what was going on. Then the bus blew up. It was heartbreaking. My stepdaughter was in London for a job interview. My niece was arriving from the US the following day for a 6 week university course. I was very active on an American expat forum and we were all waiting for the London expats to check in and let us know they were okay.
 

I remember it well, the train that got the blast was the one in front of my hsubands' train. He was later than usual that morning and missed his train by 20 minutes or he would have been on the the circle line tube when it blew up. In the event, he was on the train behind and the train was stopped mid-way between 2 stations and everyone told to get off, and walk along the line to the tube station they'd just left. Everyone was told that there had been a fire at the next station so they had to get up onto the road . He had to make his way to Tavistock square where the 4th bomb on the bus was planted, but of course by the time he'd walked there ( about 1/2 an hour)..the bomb on the bus had been detonated and it was absolute chaos and the roads were blocked off!! he still had no idea what happened he thought that a bus had crashed, there were walking wounded and eerie silence he said..

I remember it very well, I'd heard it on the news and I was trying to ring him but the police had blocked all mobile phone signals in the area and he couldn't call home. It was mid-day before I heard he was safe.
 
How nerve wracking for you, Holly!! I would have been a total wreck!
 

I really was Annie, we'd only been married 2 years...I was almost having a breakdown not hearing from him and his phone going unanswered. He didn't actually ring until an hour after he got to work...and of course when he got there ( and he works in the media as you know) there was chaos there, so it took him about an hour to even think that I might be panicking..and call me from work.
 
I have a similar story to Holly's only it was with my eldest son.........................I was at work when news started to filter through, my daughter and youngest son both phoned me at work to see if I had heard anything which I hadn't and I knew he would have been on the Kings Cross Train, I was sent home from work to try and find news and my daughter's boss told her to forget about customers and clients that day and just use the phone to keep making enquiries and so myself, youngest son and daughter were frantically phoning everyone and everywhere we could think of for news but as Holly said all phone lines were blocked into London.

It was 2.30pm before my eldest son managed to get through to me and told me he was safe and that he had decided to go into work later that morning and the train he was on was stopped because of the bombing on the train in front..............I just burst into tears when I heard my son's voice.
 
Certain days and events are simply jammed into one's memories forever.

May the victims rest in peace and survivors have peace.
 
Bee said:
Thanks Ameriscot, it was a big relief to hear from him.
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I can just imagine. I'd be frantic. Stepdaughter's interview was in Herts so she wouldn't have been on any of those trains.
 

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