User blog:SconesAndTeaMapping/22/3

Disclaimer: Sorry for such a serious blog post, but this is something for me that I find important to do because of how it affected my country and the people around me.

Last year on this day, the 22nd of March, the city where I was born was plunged into a wave of terror and fright. Targeted, were two locations I use on an almost regular basis, Brussels Airport and the Brussels Metro. It started out as a normal day at school, until my friend turned on his 4G and the whole school learned of the terrible news. We didn't know half the details and the majority of the students had parents working in the exact area where the metro bombing was. We were all terrified, trying to contact our relatives, only to find that calls were saturated and nobody could get calls or even messages through. Although nobody I knew was a victim or caught up in the attacks, I know people who have had people they know caught up. My dad, had he chosen the flight before, would have been in the arrivals hall at the moment the bomb went off. My friend's dad, had he missed his metro and taken the next, would have been blown up at Maelbeek. This whole event marked everyone around me as well as me and put terrible uncertainty about the future.

So I am using this post to remember the innocent victims who were simply there at the wrong day and wrong hour, who mangaged to have their lives cruelly taken away for no justified reason.

We will remember...