Some **** on my twitter timeline just posted a pic of a little girl dead in the middle of the road with her toy next to her.
The Mirror tasteful as ever has put up a video of the Lorry piling in. Almost like a ground version of watching the planes go into the WTC all those years ago.
Oh my goodness, been away from any news media all evening and I came back to this. This is a time where we all have to stand together with France. I'm assuming a terrorist motive.
In the mirror article there is a picture that just started my waterworks off. The picture is of a man just sat on the floor next to a covered body. Maybe his friend or girlfriend or wife or child and he is just sat there cross legged with his head bowed right next to the body within touching distance. There is also a video thankfully with pixellations walking down the promenade and there are just bodies scattered everywhere. Not close to each other. It goes on and on for 100 metres or more.
I feel sick. Another truly horrifying attack, such a random attack, just if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time that's it, you're dead. I can't comprehend the people that do these things. How is there so much sick hate in the world. It's senseless. RIP to all those poor poor people. I shed a tear for you all tonight.
As someone said to me on another site. To begin with, there is an element of arrogance in presuming that terrorist attacks are the outcome of something the West does or does not do. Do you consider muslims to be robotic, only reacting to the West? Has it occurred to you that their reasons may be based on factors completely independent of the West? Please try to research islamism, the ideology which emanates from islam, before making such simplistic comments. Better still, listen to Arab opponents of islamism, and they will explain the rationale behind this violence -- better and more credibly than any westerner can.
My 11 year old son has a school trip to France near Paris in September. Starting to worry a bit about that now.
RIP to the victims tonight. My thoughts go out to the families that have sufffered loss or pain tonight.
Also as hard as it may be we should focus our thoughts on the victims tonight and not the act of absolute cowardice by the terrorists.
It suddenly struck me that I have been to Nice and I know where that is. Then it struck me that one reason I probably know where that is, is because I was in Nice on Bastille Day, 20 or so years ago. Not that you know, it's about me or anything. Just saying like, you see something like that and it hits you so hard, and you can't even process it totally. Your mind just sort of tries to pretend it's like a movie or not real out of self-preservation I guess. It hits you in worsening waves. You see someone that reminds you of your cousin or you remember that you know someone who lives in Nice. You start thinking about 9/11 again, or London bombings...
Have you ever been to Oradour-sur-glane? Take a visit or google. Our very own Godders suggested it to me and it is the most heart wrenching place I I've ever visited. It is a preseved town following an German SS visit and left as it was (the whole town is just like what you described above) from the day the SS left.
My wife goes every year with the school she works at. Last week they had already decided to remove the Day in Paris. The trip is about visiting the war sites in Normandy and a day in Paris. No Paris now.
Such a sad, sad loss of life from a world that that has sections that I just don't understand. A world that takes another chunk of life away and creates sadness, mourning and grief for those those left behind. We are at times the ugliest of all creations.
On the other hand, fats, we can also be the best. Human beings can care about people on the other side of the globe who they do not know and will never meet. That is also unique amongst animals.
