Liberty must never become history
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1525197,00.html
Last week's spirit of survival must be cherished and nurtured if we are
to confront the forces of terrorism yet keep our freedoms
Mary Riddell
Sunday July 10, 2005
The Observer
Sirens sound different now. The blare of a police car or ambulance is
no longer the familiar, 24-hour background noise of inner London but a
jolt back to the morning they bombed London. Then there is the quieter
descant of grief.
The disappeared have acquired names and faces and labels: The sister,
the lover, the dental technician, the office cleaner, the oil
executive. On Thursday, commuters boarding three tube trains and a
Number 30 bus became TS Eliot's doomed travellers, headed for different
lives, or none. 'You are not the same people who left that station,'
Eliot wrote in Four Quartets. 'Or who will arrive at any terminus.'
Mary Riddell
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