Pistachio, I agree it wasn't easy loosing accepting death. Sadly I grew to accept it, it does that to you after a while. Yes I lost family at the hands of loyalist killers and I lost family to the British forces too.

I cannot and never could accept the British army on my streets no.

I am not prepared to go into my own circumstances on this site as you can understand.

There seems to be a few voices on this site that hate the fact that a few republicans happen to come here. I make no excuse for who I am or what I stand for. In fact I have many friends here who I respect and they know who I am and have no problem with it.

I can and will defend the Provisional IRA and I can and do accept your opinion and the role you played. Sadly some can't debate on these topics and think firing the odd line at me will put me off ! Oh how little they know me.