One year since Madrid's bombings

[aussie]

It's seems like it was yesterday when Al Qaeda bombed Madrid's underground at peak hour, leaving 200 dead and over 1500 wounded.

Madrid's bells tolled for five minutes between 7.37 and 7.42am this morning. And the anniversary is all over the news today.

It was only lucky a lot of my friends were saved, as there was a strike at uni that day. Otherwise, they would have been in those trains. Thank God for that.

I think society on the whole has reacted pretty well to the tragedy. There have been no anti-muslim outbursts or anything like it this year.

It's a bit sad though, that the main political parties, without exception, have tried to make the best of it to suit their own political agenda.

Not a happy post this, but I just thought I'd bring the anniversary to people's attention. I guess it's our very own September 11.

Oz.

[Nacho]

I've been away for some time, lurking... But I felt I had to post something here. I don't know exactly what, but hey... It was a hard day. I think we'll have to wait to the third anniversary to see it as something quite "normal"...

Maybe the guys in NY could  say how's it going...