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Impressive spontaneous memorials mark the sites where cowardish terrorist attacks claimed hundreds of lives and thousands of wounded.
After having lived in Madrid for some time in the late 1980s and beginning 1990s, I felt a special bond with this lively city. When it was attacked on March 11, 2004, it had an impact on many people around the world, and it certainly had on me. At the earliest occasion, I went to visit the site of some of the attacks to feel the atmosphere. Atocha was a busy railway station as it always is, and from there I took one of the commuter trains to El Pozo station. A small station just 10 minutes of Atocha, this was hit badly. Construction workers were working hard to erase the damage done, but still parts of the wall and the ceiling were missing.
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