UK Prime Minister

The Prime Minister has informed the House that a State of War exists between the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

GIUK Watch

Inbound tracks over the north of Scotland. This is not an exercise and it is not a probe. Cruise missiles are hitting the United Kingdom.

UK Ministry of Defence

At 04:12 GMT the United Kingdom came under sustained cruise missile attack by the armed forces of the United States. Air defences are engaging. The public should follow the guidance of local authorities and stay away from military installations.

Dave

Woke up at ten past four to what I thought was thunder. I am fifty-eight years old and I have just heard a war start over my own house.

Maya

School is open today. I checked at five in the morning because I did not know if that was still automatic. Thirty children are going to walk into my classroom in two hours and I am going to teach them about the Louisiana Purchase.

Eleanor

I remember the last one. I was three, so I remember my mother's face and not much else. I did not expect to see her face on my own in the mirror this morning. I am so terribly sorry, all of you. I truly thought we had finished with this.

Hank R.

My grandfather flew out of Norfolk in 1943. Norfolk, England, not Virginia. He is buried forty minutes from Lakenheath. We are bombing the country that buried him. I do not have a bigger thought than that and I have been trying to have one since four this morn…

GIUK Watch

Reconstructing the first salvo: 148 weapons launched. 84 intercepted — Aster 30 from Type 45s in the Forth and the Humber, Sky Sabre over the Scottish coast, 19 taken by QRA Typhoons with Meteor and ASRAAM. 64 leaked through. Buchan and Benbecula radars destro…

lives near the fence

Five weeks ago I posted that it was quiet at Marham and something was up. I want to go back to that morning and stay in it.