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lI had to fly to Canada with three colleagues in October
2001 a month after the
9/11 attack in New York. None of us had considered cancelling the trip yet when we got to the other side of the
Atlantic most people we met
expressed surprise that we had been prepared to fly.
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lStrangely when I returned home several IRA car bombs
were placed in Birmingham
on successive weekends. A friend’s son had been dropped off by a taxi next to the car that exploded ten minutes
later in Birmingham
Queensway.
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lSeveral weeks later I felt really scared in a car
blocked in traffic in Birmingham
Queensway when sirens and flashing lights went off all around. I did feel trapped and felt it was perhaps not a
good place to be.
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