Remembering the heroes of 7/7, a decade on from the terrorist attacks.

Three Thinking - Edition 003 - Tuesday 7 July 2015

It was on this day, 7 July, exactly a decade ago that hundreds, if not thousands, of lives were changed in a series of terrorist attacks on transport systems in Central London.

Terrorists killed over 50 people in a day of terror in  Central
London, on this day exactly a decade ago. Image  - Wikipedia

'Terror Bombs explode across London' was the headline in the Evening Standard, whilst the Guardian described 7 July 2005 as 'London's day of terror'. Whilst the people of London have been able to pick themselves up, unite and refuse to be cowed by terrorism, suicide bombings, and terrorist attacks in general,  are sadly not a thing of the past. Every time we turn on the evening news we hear news of massacres and murders. Just yesterday at least 44 people died in bomb attacks, on a restaurant and a mosque, in Nigeria.

Whilst I believe we can never understand what would motivate someone to commit an atrocity such as murdering dozens of innocent civilians as they go about their day to day lives, we can all see the horror. tragedy and devastation that such attacks cause. As Davina Douglass, a survivor, said: "It still baffles me how people can be so cruel". Yet we can also see, even in the darkest hour, the very best of human nature. George Psaradakis, the driver of the number 30 double-decker bus onboard which a bomb was detonated, said himself: "We saw the worst of human nature that day...And we also saw the best, in the actions of ordinary people and the emergency services". 

So as you keep the victims of the 7/7 attacks, and indeed the victims of terrorist attacks that take place everyday around the World, in your thoughts and prayers, please do reflect on the courageous and heroic actions of the emergency service personnel, and also members of the general public, who risked their lives to save others. Their selfess and heroic actions, not the appalling acts carried out by terrorists,  are what we should remember. 

THINK & REFLECT - Keep the victims of terrorism, and the individuals who risk their own lives to save others, in your thoughts and prayers today.

TOMORROW -