It's not something that can be forgotten I live in the uk and I remember comming in and putting on the tv and seeing the towers on fire I asked my son what film were they showing as it never accured to me that it was real. It was a shock to me when I realised it was real and happening. I had to fly a few weeks after I was not afraid of flying but what upset me was that some idiot on the plane must have thought it hilarious to take talcum powder and spay it all over the toilets after all the talk of the antrax powder. I got ill when I was away sickness and vomiting and although I know it was maybe something I ate that made me ill. It took months for me to recover and even up to this day my stomach has not been right. Then we had the bombing on the tubes over here (underground) and buses. I work across from one of the stations and heard the bangs and having to try and find a way out of the area when I finished work then having to come back later on as I had people to go visit as I am a carer having to go pass the refriguation units outside the station where we all know were being used to store the body parts and seeing it from the windows each day. All that stays in my mind I was in a panic because one of my son work on the undergound and another worked in the city. I could not contact them and trying to make my way out of the area to get home it never accured to me that they would be panicing as they knew I work in the area and they had been phoning home and not getting an answer.

I never lost anyone but it brought home to me that we are not safe and that wars are still going on. Our world is a small place and some of us seem bent on destroying us all. believing their way of life and beliefs are more important than anyone elses. I lived through the IRA bombings in London and just got on with life but after the Towers and the London bombings I feel a sense of hopelessness especially when I am very depressed I am afraid all the time. This is the only world we have. Nothing feels safe anymore.