24 hours after 3 bombs went off on the Tube, it was running more or less on schedule. And there were a fair few people on it to boot. Blitz spirit, indeed.
Just like NYC after 9/11. When I left work that evening, I had to cross a bridge from Manhattan to the Bronx on foot, but got a bus home from there like a regular workday. Regular workweek for me. Life goes on. If it doesn't, it's like saying Osama means something. He doesn't really.
I was on a plane to Albuquerque two weeks later - except for the numerous searches, it was great. Extra food, though no utensils, and plenty of legroom. A week after that I was on a plane to Dayton, Ohio then one to Toronto. Except for the fact that it was brought on by mass murder, I think plane travel should always be that way -- no delays, solicitous attendants, low fares, etc.
I will say, however, that those were bad days for NYC. The image that stays in my mind is of a dozen police cars followed by a dozen firetrucks and ambulances racing past my bus in the Bronx while I was trying to eavesdrop on conversations about a plane that had somehow gone off course and plowed into one of the twin towers. I thought for sure it had to be a Cessna. Then the cops made us all get off the bus at the bridge crossing to Manhattan and we had to walk it. From the bridge in north Manhattan (ten miles north of the Twin Towers) all I could see was a plume of smoke. I was late to work.
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Just like NYC after 9/11. When I left work that evening, I had to cross a bridge from Manhattan to the Bronx on foot, but got a bus home from there like a regular workday. Regular workweek for me. Life goes on. If it doesn't, it's like saying Osama means something. He doesn't really.
My parents were loathe to get on a plane after 9/11 (they still haven't been) but I coulnd't wait to get it over with.
I was on a plane to Albuquerque two weeks later - except for the numerous searches, it was great. Extra food, though no utensils, and plenty of legroom. A week after that I was on a plane to Dayton, Ohio then one to Toronto. Except for the fact that it was brought on by mass murder, I think plane travel should always be that way -- no delays, solicitous attendants, low fares, etc.
I will say, however, that those were bad days for NYC. The image that stays in my mind is of a dozen police cars followed by a dozen firetrucks and ambulances racing past my bus in the Bronx while I was trying to eavesdrop on conversations about a plane that had somehow gone off course and plowed into one of the twin towers. I thought for sure it had to be a Cessna. Then the cops made us all get off the bus at the bridge crossing to Manhattan and we had to walk it. From the bridge in north Manhattan (ten miles north of the Twin Towers) all I could see was a plume of smoke. I was late to work.
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