In America, did you have a minutes silence on the first anniversary of the London bombings?

Question

I always wondered...

For the person below;
we have honoured September 11th every year the date has arrived. We stand at school behind our desks for 2 minutes. The bells ring at the exact time it started, and again 2 minutes later.

Answer 1

We did honor your fallen in our part of the country....midwest. So sorry for your losses.

What do they do in England as a memorial for the September 11th attacks?

And for the total jerk who is taking advantage of the American education system, if you like Europe so much, move there. Go to school there.

What did Bulgaria do to honor our fallen? What did Bulgaria do to honor the victims of the London bombings?

Hey Mr. holier than thou...what did you personally do to honor them?

Prick.

Answer 2

i became between the thousands and thousands of human beings whose day became disrupted by the bombings. I undergo in innovations feeling happy with my fellow Londoners in the way we've been resolute and did no longer freak out. We stored our heads and went approximately our corporation. I had a 10am corporation assembly only off Regent highway, and in spite of the actuality that we've been shaken by the events, we nevertheless went forward with the assembly against the backdrop of a million sirens. It felt like the nicely suited concern to do. I even have moved to Australia because, and that i could admit i'm appalled that there became a 2 minute silence to mark the anniversary. I truthfully had my very own 2d of contemplation at present, yet what's all this 2 minute silence crap? Who comes to a decision this? Christ, because Diana died all the Brits ever do is have a million or 2 or 3 minute silences, that is only stupid. Do the lifeless of WW1 or WW2 get a 2 minute silence? No. the thought it is disrespectful to the sufferers to no longer follow a 2 minute silence angers me - no one has the ethical suited to rigidity an valid grief era on anyone else. Had I nevertheless been in London at present i could have observed the silence - god forbid anyone could be viewed to step out of line with the grief police. yet i could have been questioning "it is easily stupid" - as i'm helpful have been many others - and that's no thank you to pay tribute.

Answer 3

Actually we did in a church service and there was a person from rural England who spoke for a few minutes and recieved a standing ovation at the end of his talk. I was intrigued by the person who said he was from Europe and was here going to school but hated Americans. There are an awful lot of people who come to America but love to say how much they hate but they stay anyhow. It is chic to say boo to America but it still is one of the few countries that people can speak out like that. I think there are people who hate America because the country reacted to the murder of 3,000 people ( who were from many nationalities in fact) and thats the way that is. Its such a free country that you really can leave if you don't like it or you can huddle around in coffee shops and whine until its time to get your check so you can buy more stuff and whine even more. By the way there is a Catholic Church in my area that had a vigil, and service for the victims of the Madrid bombings. I suspect that the negative writer who posted before probably identifies more with the bombers than the victims and you might notice that he did not have a moment of silence or anything like that...and yet he complained about Americans.

Answer 4

Well it is a little different, we don't mourn those who died in Spain or anywhere else that has had a bomb. It's just that an awful lot of people died in 9/11 and it came as a big shock. (I'm English by the way)
And for Road Runner, the London Bombings were pretty suspicious too, don't you think?

Answer 5

They should have. Especially when Brits regard the tragedy of 9/11 as catastrophe and a huge loss to Innocent civilians.

Answer 6

Why would you bothering answering a question, just to put "I dunno" !

Anyway... I hope tehy did. We are all in tehis together, right? And by that I mean everyone not just western countries. I thik the 'War on Terror' and "Axis of Evil" are silly warmongering concepts (If nothing else a 'war' means 'soldiers' and these terrorists are not soldiers). It is the forces of good in the world (from ALL countries including those traditionally villified like Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, Korea, Afghanistan etc) versus the forces of evil in the world (from ALL countries, inclduing UK, USA, France, Germanyc etc etc)

Answer 7

No I didn't but when I saw the news footage of the bombing from last year I did hope that the injured and the families of those who died were doing better and that the scum behind the bombings were rotting in hell.

Answer 8

America doesn't give a c*rap about anywhere else.
But I think you'll find we honour Sept. 11th because of the 67 British victims, not because it happened on American soil.

Answer 9

Why would they even their president is not sure where we are on a map. He wasn't to bothered about Hurricane Katrina.
Most Americans are decent people but are not really interested or aware of the rest of the world unless if effects them.
Sorry to generalise but that is how it seems.

Answer 10

I think it's bad enough that these things happen in the first place without us all having a go at each other for observing or not observing a silence. if you're at school you do what you're told and you're not entitled to an opinion until you leave.