Yesterday, millions of people around the world joined in a two minute silence to pay tribute to the victims of the London bombings one week earlier. All around the UK workers left their offices to stand in the street, taxis and buses pulled over and financial markets paused, trains stopped and planes stayed on the runway at Gatwick Airport in London. All over great Britain traffic just stopped, people came to a halt and thousands stood in the streets side by side. At the strike of 12:00 there was a hush and there was silence for 2 minutes. The Queen joined, Tony Blair joined, schoolchildren, office workers, shopkeepers and construction workers alike - all were silent and still in memory of the victims of the attacks seven days before.
Around the world, countries joined in too - Spain, Italy, France, Brazil and in In Berlin, subway trains, trams and buses stopped for two minutes. In Turkey, Indonesia, and Ireland (as well as others) people also fell silent and in America, the three locations struck on September 11, 2001 -- New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania -- also joined together to observe the silence.
I watched the footage later in the day and it was amazing to see. It was touching and beautiful to see that the world is capable of joining together in peace. It is something that I don't believe I will ever forget.
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