Thirty four years ago today British soldiers opened fire on unarmed and peaceful civilians in Derry, Ireland, killing 14 and wounding a number of others. The good people of Doire were protesting the policy of internment. Not a single soldier was ever brought to justice. Brits Out!!! "Now the music's gone but they carry on For their spirit's been bruised, never broken They will not forget but their hearts are set on tomorrow and peace once again For what's done is done and what's won is won and what's lost is lost and gone forever I can only pray for a bright, brand new day in the town I loved so well" Phil Coulter
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I Wish I Was Back Home In Derry -B.Sands
i wish i was in dixie too..... oh did you say derry? never heard of it
Don't be a wise guy Rhino...On this day your allied friends from England slaughtered innocent people in the street...A democracy where the government failed it's people...What's that you say? Impossible? I wish, because unfortunately it happened. Brits out now...
six days and sixty days go, still bobby keeps his fast,
asleep in a coma he waits to breathe his very last,
that night the feeble heart stopped, at last his life is gone,
but margaret thatcher groans in range, 'cause bobby lad has won.
still we light a million candles and we'll say a billion prayers
and we'll sing a mournful tune in a rain of tears
you see bobby was a soldier, he's a man who must be seen
he's a man who knows the way to our dream
(don't know who wrote this, from a song called "bobby was a soldier."
i know the previous comment does not directly connect with bloody sunday, as it relates to the hunger strikes a decade later, specifically that of Bobby Sands, M.P. but i got swept up by the bobby sands quote, and anyway, it is all part and parcel of the same systematic abuse perpetrated on the Irish people living under British rule, particularly regarding imprisoned nationalists...
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