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Message 1 - posted by Clark_Host, Jul 3, 2006 How will you be marking the anniversary? Will you be going to any of the commemorative events? Or will you be staying away from central London?
What impact did the bombings have on your daily life? Did they change the way you travel to work or did they toughen your resolve carry on as normal?
What lessons do you think have been learned? |
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Message 2 - posted by eyesteel, Jul 3, 2006 I'll be going to work in central London as normal.
I feel that's the most appropriate way to mark the day. |
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Message 3 - posted by polydorus, Jul 3, 2006 Will I be marking the anniversary? No, I will carry on as normal. Why should we mark the anniversary, the more we continue to hype this ghastly event the more terrorism wins.
What impact did it have? It stiffened my resolve to carry on as normal but I do look more carefully at my fellow passengers on the bus and tube.
What have we learnt – that there are British citizens prepared to carry out this kind of act.
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Message 4 - posted by Clark_Host, Jul 4, 2006 Is it hype? By marking the anniversary aren't people simply remembering the 52 victims who died needlessly and highlighting the fact that Londoners will not be terrorised? |
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Message 5 - posted by eyesteel, Jul 4, 2006 I think the media are overly obsessed with marking anniversaries and the like. It's just an easy way to fill up airtime, and excuse to wheel out the same old commentators and 'experts'. I dread to think what BBC London has planned for its 'anniversary special'.
This is not to underestimate the importance of what happened last year, but just because a year has passed, what is there new to be said? It just gives more publicity to the deluded idiots who were responsible for such a terrible act.
Why do we need to 'remember' the victims by 'marking' the anniversary? No one has forgotten them. I think most people - and I imagine many of those directly involved - would rather just move on with their lives. |
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Message 6 - posted by polydorus, Jul 4, 2006 #5
I agree, making a big production of the anniversary is not simply remembering those who died, it is providing the oxygen of publicity to terrorists.
The best way of showing that Londoners will not be intimidated by terrorism is to get on with our lives.
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Message 7 - posted by H&G, Jul 4, 2006 |
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Message 8 - posted by Clark_Host, Jul 4, 2006 BBC London will be covering the events at the blast sites and in Regent's Park. The decision to lay memorial plaques, hold a two minute silence and read out the names of the people killed was not made by the media.
BBC London will be looking back at the events of 7 July but will also be looking forward and asking if the events changed people and the capital, whether security is better now and whether we could cope better if anything like this happened again.
We'll also be looking how the capital's Muslim community has coped with the fallout from the attacks.
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Message 9 - posted by H&G, Jul 4, 2006 Are you forgetting your own reporting? Mr Woolas spoke out as a Populas survey for The Times and ITV News suggested that 13% of British Muslims think the men who carried the 7 July bombings in London should be regarded as "martyrs". It also suggested that 7% agreed that suicide attacks on UK civilians can be justified in some circumstances and 16% said while the attacks may have been wrong the cause was right. Some 2% suggested they would be proud if a family member decided to join al-Qaeda, while 16% would be "indifferent".  |
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Message 10 - posted by tips1701, Jul 5, 2006 After living with 30 years of IRA bombing, I shall do exactly what I have always done, get on with my life and wish that people would stop making such a huge fuss about this. |
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Message 11 - posted by Rob, Jul 5, 2006 Mark the anniversary?? I think that is for the victims that survived, and the relatives of those that didn't to decide. It isn't a public holiday you know! How will you be marking the anniversary? Will you be going to any of the commemorative events? Or will you be staying away from central London?
What impact did the bombings have on your daily life? Did they change the way you travel to work or did they toughen your resolve carry on as normal?
What lessons do you think have been learned?
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Message 12 - posted by Carl La Fong, Jul 6, 2006 BBC London will be covering the events at the blast sites and in Regent's Park. The decision to lay memorial plaques, hold a two minute silence and read out the names of the people killed was not made by the media.
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Yes, but you're all making sure that you go into overdrive about it aren't you? Cue the interviews with survivors, with sentimental background music. Why can't the public be left alone to think about this in their own way, if they want to, without the media making such a meal of it? I suspect that many people don't actually want to be reminded. Do we have to have all the gushing, all the outward displays of grief? Why this assumption that if we aren't crying, we don't care? |
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Message 13 - posted by eyesteel, Jul 6, 2006 Brilliantly put, Carl.
The very notion of those two clowns on the breakfast show doing an anniversary special is too grim to contemplate. |
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Message 14 - posted by U4427091, Jul 6, 2006 What have we learnt – that there are British citizens prepared to carry out this kind of act.
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That there are people with their feet in this country, even if born here, but with their hearts elsewhere. |
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Message 15 - posted by polydorus, Jul 6, 2006 So Cark_Host, although the sample is small, the support for commemorative events is not exactly earth shattering. How about trying a poll on your main news site? |
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Message 16 - posted by anbarlyn, Jul 6, 2006 I will use this anniversary to write to my MP and the Prime Minister to request that they speedily pay compensation to those who are surviving but have had their lives dramatically changed. I find it shocking that charities set up at the time have made massive payments whilst the Government sponsored bodies are dragging their feet. I was shocked to hear a couple of days ago that if a victim is getting a large sum because he lost his legs then any other settlement is reduced considerable. We should all be ashamed that this anniversary has arrived and victims are fearful that they will not be able to survive with such small payments. |
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Message 17 - posted by U4427091, Jul 6, 2006 Is that you Arthur? |
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Message 18 - posted by Blackcountrybloke, Jul 6, 2006 The guys who had there house raided in the interest of saving more lives will probably get there compensation before the victims of 7/7
Shame on this Government, but they will blame others! |
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Message 19 - posted by glrplease, Jul 6, 2006 false grief wont help the victims or families,but might make the bbc think they helped somehow.stop the professional grief please. |
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Message 20 - posted by northstephen, Jul 6, 2006 I will be observing the 2 minutes silence at noon tomorrow(7 July) I was on a tube train going to bank last July 7 and was told to leave at Euston. I worked in Islington and walked past Kings Cross at 09:30 am. It was mayhem with the Police and the emergency services everywhere.
I now live in Liverpool but I will never forget what happpened that day last year.
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