Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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Paul
thanks for drawing this to our attention. A very moving account.
I was working in Broadstairs at the time and remember the cloud of smoke that could be seen from Pegwell Bay. A terrible day.
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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I was living two streets away, our windows nearly shattered. A terrible attack on innocent people.
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Our son's clarinet teacher Jay O'Neill, was caught in the bombing.
He was due to come to give him a lesson that night at 6pm but his wife rang and said he had been injured - he was one of the lucky ones who survived, but had ear drum and leg injuries.
It was very traumatic.
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Jan Higgins
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We lived up Bunkers Hill Road then and watched the many ambulances that went along to Buckland Hospital, it was awful.
As a side issue what would happen now I wonder.
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Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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Yes I see the Prime Minister has made a full apology for Bloody Sunday and some relative's want soldiers taken to court for it. Do I take it the IRA will apologise for this cowardly murderous attack on innocent bandsman and hand over the murders for justice. No thought not.
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Good point Harry, it certainly was a cowardly act.
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Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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Harry and Gary-good god it makes you think!
Never give up...
Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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Yes Richard it makes me think! It makes me think these were good lads who never deserved to die the way they did and maybe those people killed on Bloody Sunday didn't either but if their families are entitled to justice then so god dam it are the families of our lads that were murdered in cold blood.
Keith Sansum1
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whilst fully apprreciating the sadness caused by these bombing and how wrong the IRA was in many of its bombing of innocent people(a tactic that did there cause no good at all) we shouldn';t forget that the I.R.A. were not the only people in northern ireland that killed innocent people
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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True Keith there were innocents killed on both sides, so should both sides apologise and pay compensation.
The point is I do not remember hearing of random bombings from our soldiers, that killed totally innocent men, women and children.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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JAN;
I agree with all you say, i have no time for the IRA of the past, never have never will.
and go one step further and say i find it difficult to even think some of these murderers are now part of the new set up in very high positions.
im sure most of the victims families would be horrified.
maybe it's progress, and i suppose it has gone some way to stop innocents being killed, so i suppose it's a price to pay, but i still find it hard
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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It was crass to announce the bloody Sunday compensation on the anniversary of the Deal bombings
Audere est facere.