Today marks the sad fifth anniversary of the terrorist Madrid train bombings — an event that sparked headlines all over the world and decimated the lives of many families of those who were butchered as they went about their daily lives.
Two ways to mark it:
1. DO NOT FORGET. Go take a look at THIS LINK at Barcepundit.
2. REMEMBER HOW TERRORISM IS EVERYONE’S ENEMY: Think of the people and the innocence. This You Tube with actual footage shows what it was like at one stop as the bombs went off in Madrid (at a station I used to use when I lived there for four years in the 1970s):
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.