London Blitz
Re “Londoners Caught in Glare of Global Spotlight on Blair,” Oct. 9: The article says London citizens acknowledge that nothing on the scale of the World Trade Center attack happened either in World War II or the recent years of terrorist bombings in the city.
That’s true, counting one way. Counting another, New York and the Pentagon come nowhere near the horrors of the Blitz. To do that, there would have to be the same number killed in this country as on Sept. 11 each month for the next seven months to top Britain’s blitz toll. It totaled over 40,000 killed between September 1941 and May 1942, of whom 5,000 were children.
Christopher Reed
Weldon, Calif.
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