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Let alone the tens injured and had their lives tipped upside down. Seems utterly surreal even now.
A girl in my form lost her friend, she'd have been 9 or so at the time. I think the day after when all the news hit was the hardest day, I still remember clearly sitting in the office trying to piece together which kids we knew had gone that night.
There's no proper memorial this year, but a live stream by the cathedral.
We've seen Stephen Yaxley-Lennon try to make money from it and spread hate. We've seen others come up here and politicise it, but it probably saw more good news stories come to light than anything else.
I don't think there was any greater tribute than this evening though.
Very surreal. Especially now the death toll from coronavirus in Greater Manchester is over 1,700. That's not to detract from the tragedy of the bombings of course, but just emphasises how that awful event feels like another world away now (and fuels my frustration at those people who continue to flaunt safety guidance).
RIP to those who lost their lives and hopefully we'll not see anything like it again.
3 years today since 22 people were killed in the Manchester bombing on 10:14 - May 22 by Swansea_Blue
Very surreal. Especially now the death toll from coronavirus in Greater Manchester is over 1,700. That's not to detract from the tragedy of the bombings of course, but just emphasises how that awful event feels like another world away now (and fuels my frustration at those people who continue to flaunt safety guidance).
RIP to those who lost their lives and hopefully we'll not see anything like it again.
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The death toll was mercifully low, if he'd have got in earlier or into the main arena somehow he'd have killed hundreds.
Seems weird to look back and say that now.
But socially it changed so much in the city in my opinion. A section of people became more racist and that ripple effect is felt on almost every story on the MEN if you dare read the comments.
However, the positives massively outshone that. The Bee as a symbol was everywhere, from the tattoo campaign to bumper stickers but there was deeper less superficial stuff happening too. A lot of communities got together and united a little bit more.
Maybe COVID-19 will do that once we have some distance from it?
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