While she’s been in Canada for the past eight years, Howe grew up in the U.K. during the 1970s, a time when the Irish Republican Army carried out many terrorist attacks.
It seems terror may have spared the generation between then and now. These days, it’s not the IRA anymore, but homegrown and international terrorists who have been targeting innocent people.
It happened again Wednesday when a man killed three people and injured 20 more in a horrible attack in and around the British Parliament buildings in London
before he was killed himself.
Howe may have become a little desensitized to terrorism, but she’s still shocked when things like this occur, especially when it hits so close to her home as it did Wednesday.
“I think everyone is a lot more vigilant now, but it is still very frightening when this happens,” said Howe, who works with the Gros Morne Summer Music Festival in Corner Brook.
On a recent visit home with her family, Howe had planned to take her family to France, but a terrorist attack in that country put a damper on those plans.
They have booked a trip back to her hometown of Buckinghamshire, about an hour west of London, in May. The tragic events of Wednesday won’t alter those plans.
“It is very sad to hear about this but, if you let these sort of things change the way you live your life, then you are letting terrorism win,” she said.
