Re: Pensioner Soldier charged with Murder in Ireland.
This is wrong on so many levels, including we forgave IRA and others during the peace process. If what IRA did was forgiven then so should anything army did.Re: Pensioner Soldier charged with Murder in Ireland.
I was 15 and in the nearest town was where the Junior Leaders were once stationed. These boys were aged 15-17 and away from their homes and families. They went on to join the Regular Army and a lot of them ended up in Northern Ireland. We knew quite a few of them, some eventually marrying local girls and settling here. But there were some lovely lads that we knew that died over there courtesy of an IRA bullet. it was so sad. I am so angry on their behalf at this sheer injustice.Re: Pensioner Soldier charged with Murder in Ireland.
Re: Pensioner Soldier charged with Murder in Ireland.
After 800 years of colonialism, military occupation, starvation, rent-wracking, religious & cultural oppression, denial of democracy, enforced migration and Christ knows how many other horrors suffered by the Irish at the hands of the British political classes, nothing should surprise anyone about politics in Ireland.Re: Pensioner Soldier charged with Murder in Ireland.
Never judge a man until you’ve walked in his boots and unless you’ve stood against a mob in a riot ( scary stuff ) then whilst I don’t condone murder neither can I understand the events on Bloody Sunday as it seems only the IRA version is being givenRe: Pensioner Soldier charged with Murder in Ireland.
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