July 11, 2006
Mumbai Blasts
7/11 will be a day of infamy in India much in the way that 9/11 is in the States. Just want to let everyone know that Rock is in Chennai and I am in Hyderabad and we are okay.
It is sobering to know that we have both used the Mumbai train system at the rush-hour time of day it was blasted. Similar to how it was sobering to know, five years ago, that I had visited the Twin Towers less than a month before 9/11, and that I had flown on American and United airplanes even more recently.
I am incredibly grateful that Rock's work did not take him to Mumbai this week. The thought of an alternate reality if he had been there and had happened to take the train at rush hour today makes me weep as my heart reaches out to those people whose husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, and children were on those trains. Such pain.
Mumbai Blasts
7/11 will be a day of infamy in India much in the way that 9/11 is in the States. Just want to let everyone know that Rock is in Chennai and I am in Hyderabad and we are okay.
It is sobering to know that we have both used the Mumbai train system at the rush-hour time of day it was blasted. Similar to how it was sobering to know, five years ago, that I had visited the Twin Towers less than a month before 9/11, and that I had flown on American and United airplanes even more recently.
I am incredibly grateful that Rock's work did not take him to Mumbai this week. The thought of an alternate reality if he had been there and had happened to take the train at rush hour today makes me weep as my heart reaches out to those people whose husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, and children were on those trains. Such pain.
posted by Jen at 8:29 AM
2 Comments:
I echo Missy's comment as I did the exact same thing!
I'm glad you guys are ok. It really hits home all the bombings and random acts of terror that happen daily in other parts of the world when you have someone with whom you have a close relation with experiencing it's effects. Although I feel great sympathy for those in India who have been affected I also feel a little un-humane because when I hear about bombings in the middle east I tend to quickly skip over them, but since my family is in India I care alot more. People are people no matter where they are and people feel emotion no matter their relogion or geographic location. Today I feel for everyone.
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