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20 years on

Stitch147

Stitch147

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Some of you on here know my story, others don't.
If you get a minute today please can you remember the 52 people who lost their lives 20 years ago today in the 7/7 attacks on London.
I was a train operator at the time based at Edgware Road depot on the Hammersmith & City and Circle lines.
I was one of the lucky ones as I was rest day on 7th July 2005. But I remember where I was when I saw the first reports, I remember where I was when my phone started going mad with texts and calls, I remember wanting to go to Edgware Road to support my colleagues.
What happened that day still has a profound effect on me. I suffer from survivors guilt because I wasn't there. I didn't see or hear what some of my colleague did that day. Believe me if I could have got there I would have. My colleagues dealt with things that day that they should never have had to deal with.
20 years may have passed but we still remember what happened like it was yesterday.
We'll never forget. X
 
It certainly doesn't seem like twenty years.............

Back in those days (before Covid) our IT teams regularly used to meet in central London (as well as our Blood Centre Team who are based in the West End) and I remember us all being incredibly worried but luckily everyone checked in as safe albeit very shook up.
 
Stitch147 said:
Some of you on here know my story, others don't.
If you get a minute today please can you remember the 52 people who lost their lives 20 years ago today in the 7/7 attacks on London.
I was a train operator at the time based at Edgware Road depot on the Hammersmith & City and Circle lines.
I was one of the lucky ones as I was rest day on 7th July 2005. But I remember where I was when I saw the first reports, I remember where I was when my phone started going mad with texts and calls, I remember wanting to go to Edgware Road to support my colleagues.
What happened that day still has a profound effect on me. I suffer from survivors guilt because I wasn't there. I didn't see or hear what some of my colleague did that day. Believe me if I could have got there I would have. My colleagues dealt with things that day that they should never have had to deal with.
20 years may have passed but we still remember what happened like it was yesterday.
We'll never forget. X
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My daughter was doing her finals at med school in London and heard on the morning news so rang the UNI to ask what to do and they said yes you must come in, followed by a call a few moments later to say DO NOT COME IN.
So yes a day we remember with great sadness for all those affected.
 
I remember the shock. Our boss had a meeting in London that day but arrived at Liverpool Street as first explosions happened. I remember the pictures of the bus. Obviously the people on the bus were very unlucky but no doubt lives were saved because fortunately it happened outside the BMA where lots of doctors were assembling for a conference.
 
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I remember the day clearly although I was about 100 miles away. I usually travelled to London a couple of times a month but not that day. One colleague was there, though. Thankfully, he was not directly caught up in the bombs but the impact was huge so, along with many he was trapped walking in central London with no transport to get home,

The impact is still felt in ways that are not always clear. I was discussing the bombing with a Muslim colleague of mine recently. He often travels on the tube with a backpack for work. If he sits down, the person next to him will stand up and walk away and no one will replace them. There is a fear of people who "look like" they are Muslim.
 
I still remember watching the TV reporting safe at home, but thinking if it had been 10 days ago, it could have been me - 10 days earlier, almost to the minute the bus was hit, I was crossing that road to get to an examiners' meeting at a hotel next to the BMA HQ.

You were so much more closely involved, @Stitch147 and our thoughts are with you and so many affected. We won't forget.
 
I remember desperately trying to contact my cousin as she worked in Central London at the time. Fortunately she was OK but people were deeply upset. My heart goes out to those involved and to the families who lost loved ones.
It is important that we continue to remember the impact of that day for so many.:care::(
 
Thanks for sharing your experience @Stitch147 :care::care::care:

And for keeping the remembrance alive.
 
Just {{{Hugs}}} Stitch. I can never forget the IRA pub bombings in Birmingham. It was just horrible having to be there.
 
I used to travel to London a couple of times a month. Sometimes I travelled down on the day and sometimes the night before. I had travelled down on 6 July for the meeting on 7. If I had travelled down on 7 July, I would have been at King's Cross at the time of the explosion. Fortunately, my only worry was that I could not use the mobile network to phone my wife to let her know I was OK, a minor issue when so many more suffered so much worse.
 
I will never forget that day. I was in an A Level English class when my teacher got the news. His daughter had been travelling on the tube that day so he rushed off to contact her, and then came back with the wheel-in television so we could watch the news updates. It must have been incredibly traumatic for all impacted.
 
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