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I could had been a victim of the IRA bandstand bomb in London back in 1981/2 I was there the day before it went off. As a school kid we reacted in a typical school kid manor, as an adult I found it to be unnerving.
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I can relate....
Having grown up in the UK, my father came very close on more than one occasion to being blown up by the IRA in london, or killed in the Kings Cross fire...
It wasn't until I lived through 9/11 as an American citizen that I looked at those days in the 80's in London and recognized the danger, and how lucky I was to have my Father in one piece. 9/11 produced tons of memoriess of being a kid and not really understanding how and why things were as they were in London at that time, but as an adult, I think of my Mother waiting to find out if Dad was ok after a bombing, and it sends chills down my spine.
I wish I still had a childs eyes sometimes.
