I don't think there was a "connection" between the two--that's not what I was implying. As for the coverage that the riots got, it's definitely less, but it was in the papers here certainly.
As for 7/7--I have a flashbulb memory of that too. I was at home, but one of my best friends was working at Madame Tussaud's museum in London. She was on that line just minutes before the bomb went off. I remembering getting onto whatever instant-messenger I was using at the time, and being like, "Jamie! Jamie! Talk to me, are you okay???" When she finally logged on, she just said, "Yes, I'm alive. Can't talk. Too freaked out." and then promptly logged off again. Which I completely understood. After like a week we did talk about it more, but those few minutes between when I heard the news and when I heard from her were among the scariest of my life.
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Date: 2011-09-12 02:58 pm (UTC)As for 7/7--I have a flashbulb memory of that too. I was at home, but one of my best friends was working at Madame Tussaud's museum in London. She was on that line just minutes before the bomb went off. I remembering getting onto whatever instant-messenger I was using at the time, and being like, "Jamie! Jamie! Talk to me, are you okay???" When she finally logged on, she just said, "Yes, I'm alive. Can't talk. Too freaked out." and then promptly logged off again. Which I completely understood. After like a week we did talk about it more, but those few minutes between when I heard the news and when I heard from her were among the scariest of my life.