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7.07.2005landry: blahblahblah you must have known i was going to call you blah blah blah crippled blah blah blah need a massage blah blah blah landrys mom: oh well you should get one and you should make sure you do these stretches. and also stay in your house and do not leave landry: its just my muscles...im not dying. landry's mom: no I mean because of the bombings. i just panicked. she gave me a quick over view because i was rushing her to get off the phone with me so i could see what happened. and i called liz immediately. as soon as she picked up the phone i started to cry. I could barely get through reading her the headlines. i overheard someone say "well at least it was only 33 people and not 33HUNDRED" and all i could think was "it is so much worse than that" london has had its fair share of bombings. I remember being a child and growing up in a VERY Irish (immigrant) catholic neighborhood. and overhearing what i now know to be the undercurrent of gossip about who was a 'friend' of the IRA. I happen to know people who gave money to "the army for god and all good good fearing catholics on earth who have been so downtrodden by her majestys royal homeland" they were bombing London in the 70's i remember it like it was yesterday. I remember it more than most of you because i was living in the midst of the 'Irish Catholic Riviera" they still had kin there. they started welding the garbage cans shut. even then, smarter than the powers that be here in the US. bombing after bombing after bombing. every night on the news. my mother horrified that her people would be doing such a thing. welcome to the 70s...uh i mean '05 it was 33 people...and a million more in London alone who feel unsafe REALLY REALLY unsafe. the world trade centerbombing only killed 2 or 3 thousand people the holocoust killed millions its all relative. Right after the trade center there was a full page ad in the Times that was taken out by the city of london i saw it on the thursday after and i could not stop crying i mean, that was a direct message to new yorkers from the city that is most like us in the world. Tony Blair sent televised messages to the USA via the television but the city of London sent us a love note, a symapthy card and a "hang in there kid" note directly to our doorstep. That is why i was so upset this morning. I heart london more than ever. .: posted by landry 6:43 PM
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