Lack Of Respect??

[Nige F]

Today is the anniversary of the 7/7 London bombings in 2005. Nowhere today have I seen any sort of acknowledgement to this tragic day.
Something close to home for us.... Other half did a lot of body reconstruction on the victims.
I wonder how many are aware of the memorial in Hyde Park.... I certainly wasn't until we paid a visit a couple of years ago

 

[Stevebrooke]

I believe we don't publicly remember these atrocities due to the ethnic/religious background of the perpetrators. It's much the same with Lee Rigby. I wager there will be no such silence come the anniversary of the death of George Floyd.

 

[andyBeaker]

Today is the anniversary of the 7/7 London bombings in 2005. Nowhere today have I seen any sort of acknowledgement to this tragic day.
Something close to home for us.... Other half did a lot of body reconstruction on the victims.
I wonder how many are aware of the memorial in Hyde Park.... I certainly wasn't until we paid a visit a couple of years ago

I was in the office and heard one of the devices go off just over the road. Remember organising registers ticking off people coming into work, a very worrying time.

Bizarrely one of my strongest memories is laying into someone who was concerned at where they would be able to get lunch from as we had locked the building down.

 

[derek kelly]

Bizarrely one of my strongest memories is laying into someone who was concerned at where they would be able to get lunch from as we had locked the building down.

Were they serious? Sometimes humour is a coping mechanism, at Chelmsford we were on nights & a colleague allegedly took an overdose, as he was being stretchered out another Officer shouted “hey Chas, can I have your sandwiches?”

 

[andyBeaker]

Were they serious? Sometimes humour is a coping mechanism, at Chelmsford we were on nights & a colleague allegedly took an overdose, as he was being stretchered out another Officer shouted “hey Chas, can I have your sandwiches?”

They were serious.

Going back to the original post, I don’t think it’s a lack of respect. There are plenty other awful incidents that aren’t marked in a very public way such as the bombings of The Admiral Duncan and Brick Lane. Everyone remembers in their own way.

I suppose it’s similar in some ways to the way that some murder cases fill the news for weeks on end but others go totally unreported.

 

[Cougar377]

Were they serious? Sometimes humour is a coping mechanism, at Chelmsford we were on nights & a colleague allegedly took an overdose, as he was being stretchered out another Officer shouted “hey Chas, can I have your sandwiches?”

People working in high stress jobs/environments invariably develop a sense of humour that would shock and offend the average person on the street.

 

[Martin L Batley]

I think it's more to do with the volume of incidents we've gone through in this country.

 

[Me!]

People working in high stress jobs/environments invariably develop a sense of humour that would shock and offend the average person on the street.

This indeed! I reckon I dealt with / attended 50 or 60 fatal crashes before retirement (i know I'm not the only one!). You have to have a coping mechanism in place or you’ll easily go wibble.

 

[Pow-Lo]

They were serious.

Going back to the original post, I don’t think it’s a lack of respect. There are plenty other awful incidents that aren’t marked in a very public way such as the bombings of The Admiral Duncan and Brick Lane. Everyone remembers in their own way.

I suppose it’s similar in some ways to the way that some murder cases fill the news for weeks on end but others go totally unreported.

There are indeed plenty of atrocities that aren't marked in a public way. However, 7/7 was a terrorist act on our soil much akin to 9/11 albeit on a lesser scale. However, you can be pretty sure that Burn Loot Murder will mark the anniversary of Mr. Floyd's death vocally and, most likely, violently.