July 14, 2005

Street Talk by Carol Rosen

Will last week’s terrorist bombings in London affect your summer plans? Will you still take a vacation, fly, and take mass transit and/or visit ballparks, theme parks or malls?
(Asked at Via Valiente Plaza)

“It is just very sad that there is terrorism in this world. I don’t feel more threatened than before. If something is going to happen, it will happen. I will still travel. In fact, I’d be willing to go to England soon if I had the chance. We have to live our lives. We can’t be afraid to live our lives. Almost anything is a risk today, even driving a car. Life must go on.”

Sharon Reiswig, 60
Almaden / Retired teacher, helping run
Almaden Sports Camp


“I was upset that a lot of innocent people were killed and injured in the bombings. I actually flew on a plane this weekend and I noticed the security was very good. We must live our lives, what else can we do? I always try to be careful anyway, but sometimes it’s out of our control. We must try to do the best we can.”

Annemarie Giovannetti, 43
Almaden / Homemaker


“The bombings in London didn’t make me feel any more or less safe. They aren’t going to change my habits.”

Herb Craig, 81
Almaden / Retired


“It’s definitely a tragic and horrible thing that happened. But it’s not really going to affect me or my plans in any other way. It could happen anywhere. You can expect it to happen anywhere.”

Sean Lernihan, 18
Morgan Hill / College student and employee at America’s Best Karate in Almaden


“It was very frustrating to hear it had happened. It’s also frustrating to hear that we spend more money every day in Iraq than we do to train our first responders. I feel very vulnerable; I imagine it’s going to happen here soon too. It probably won’t affect my plans. If we had a bombing here it might, but what happened in London won’t affect what we are doing here.”

Mary Force, over 50
Almaden / Homemaker


“I don’t feel very good about it, especially about the people who were hurt and killed. But it didn’t change any of my opinions, and it won’t change my plans. We’re planning to go to Spain in September and it won’t change those plans.”

John Crowe, 74
Almaden / Retired


“I don’t feel very good about the bombings, in fact, I feel awful. It’s a terrible thing, but I think we will bounce back faster than we did on 9/11. The stock market is already coming back. I feel pretty much the same as I did before the London bombings. There are still terrorists out there, but they aren’t going to stop me from living my life the way I want to.”

Sue Paquette, 45
Almaden / Homemaker


“You know, I just don’t listen to the news, because it’s all bad news. I just don’t pay attention. I do know that gas prices are atrocious, though. Everything on the news is connected to the war, it’s just connected like a chain and it all goes back to war. I just don’t watch television anymore, and I am very careful about what my kids watch.”

Elke Rin, 32
Almaden / Housewife