That's kind Wys, but the war was 60 years ago... 20 years before I was born. Most Londoners now don't fit into the age range that remembers 'make do and mend', or nightly trips to the air raid shelter. Most of them in the City probably don't even remember Vietnam, the IRA or the Falklands Islands conflict. Most Londoners don't even know the name of their next door neighbour.

We have an infrastructure that has a history of coping well, that had far too much experience in dealing with emergencies on a large scale, and this has once again, swung into action in a superlative manner. But it's made up of individual people, just as everyone at Ground Zero in New York were individuals. History, location, experience - nothing matters but those individuals and their actions.

LTS