It was a war Dark Horse, no one involved in it would call it otherwise.

The province is a much different place today. Young people are more concerned about lifestyle than politics.

Sadly there is a serious drug problem over there,it is worse in nationalist/republican areas. They no longer take people to the bog hole or dispatch them to England. Everyone knows the drug dealers, the police there have the lowest apprehension rate in the UK against drug dealers and distributors. Many believe the police ignore the drugs problem as payback to a people that never came forward with information on people who murdered their officers.

I agree with Dark Horse about that bloody doctored chart Keith keeps putting up here. You and I know the casualty figures on BOTH SIDES were much higher.

There are three or four areas in Milltown Cemetery that families visit and will acquire a memorial stone at some point. There were many late night burials in Milltown that went unrecorded, not that Keith will believe that either.

Dark Horse,you have my admiration for the contribution you brought to this thread. I can't run with you regarding shots being fired in Derry in 1972,if so, it would have been the OIRA and they never admitted it. Marty McGuinness was an OC at the time, but not for that area of Derry. He claims a little more credit than he should and he knows that.

The reason being, him and Adams loved the good cop bad cop approach during meetings with the British and Ulster Unionists. It kept the questions and focus away from the Commander in Chief who always claimed he was never in the army. McGunniess was always disliked in Derry, as for Adams, I just hope the full truth will come out and no one tries a cover up.

Sinn Fein are currently cleaning up their party, you will see more and more ex prisoners and army members in ministerial roles. They are looking "clean skins" with no luggage for the prime jobs.