Jean Charles Menezes must be remembered; and as one of us.

Today's date cannot have escaped your notice. 7/7 is now the most emotive date in the calendar of the British consciousness; it is synonymous with sadness, loss, and pure, bitter shock. Yet it must also be said that in the year that has passed, there has been much we can be proud of; shows of strength, resilience, and fortitude. London's circulatory system, if you'll allow the analogy, was hit hard- but its heart beats stronger than ever.Today, as around the country, we observed a two minutes' silence in memory of the victims, their families and their loved ones.

Dozens were killed on three trains and one bus around London. The nation stopped; this was our 9/11.However the week after 7/7, there was a second attack; one that mercifully failed in its aim of echoing the first wave of attacks. We can be proud of London's response to this second attempted assault, and also the Police's reactions- a Europe-wide manhunt for the failed bombers was successful and brought them to justice, plucked from London flats and an Italian hideout to face justice. The search was relentlessly pursued, and during this search, constant news updates followed the search's every lead- and as they were reeled in, we felt safe again.

Yet in this furious search for these unsuccessful second wave bombers, there was a casualty- a young, innocent Brazilian named Jean Charles De Menezes. Lest we forget, he was shot dead at point-blank range at Stockwell Tube Station; the most bitter tragedy after his own was that it was a Police Officer who shot him. He was caught up as a suspect in the frenzied Police activity that followed both 7/7 and the follow-up.In these times of instant-gratification justice and blame, who on Earth do we point the finger at?

It is simplistic and straightforward to blame the Police; criticism have ranged through trigger-happy, bungling, all the way to institutionally inept. Yet the same Police service, all things considered, managed to reel in four desparately dangerous men- people who had proved themselves willing to strap explosives to their body, and detonate them, purely to harm others.I personally don't think any of us can know what goes through the head of a Police Officer confronted with the possiblity that they may be the only person able to stop a suicide bomber; the adrenaline, fear, and responsibility is something noone could ever be prepared for. A mistake was made; a tragic mistake.

But let us remember Jean-Charles Menezes as a victim of 7/7, or of the follow-up attack- not simply a victim of the Police. He deserves to be thought of as a part of this nation, part of the glorous multicultural patchwork that makes Britain what it is; he was taken from us too, by circumstances created by four men with rucksacks, trying to change the world for the worse.

Let us also remember the human stories that have moved us since; the priest who gave up her job because she found she simply could not forgive the bombers that killed her daughter. You can only hope that she reconciles her faith and her situation; if not, she becomes another tragedy to add to the list.As we observed our two minutes' silence, we remembers everyone lost on that awful day. Yet the fallout claimed one more victim; he should have been in our thoughts today. If not, then mark the 22nd of July with a moment's reflection on another tragic victim of Terrorism in the UK. He deserves our thoughts; and let us think of him as one of us.