One morning in July

Back in London I picked up a book called One Morning in July: The Man Who Was First on the Scene Tells His Story by Aaron Debnam. I’ve been rather hesitant about buying any books about the 7/7 bombings or 9/11. Not that I don’t believe that their stories need to be told, on the contraire. But somehow I don’t feel like having media profiting on what really happened those dates. It just doesn’t feel right.

The major reason why I still bought the book thought is probably because London is “my” city and I remember being worried sick that Thursday before finding out that all my friends in London was OK. Things like this could not happen in my favourite city in the world.

I started to read the book on Thursday night being in a rather faulty mood, but very quickly I felt compelled to just read on and on. Aaron Debnam tells us straight up what it was to be first on the scene on Russell Square and how it totally changed his life forever.

It’s not a very thick book and the book is written in a quite simple style, which bothered me at first. But as an eyewitness account it is a style most of us would use. Simple and straight the way one experience things.

Last night I read the remaining chapters and I have to say now that I’m glad that I did buy the book. Never mind the profiting media, this is a good read anda very true story.