Daa-rahh - (can't speak for Keith).
My father was excommunicated from the church for fighting for the Republicans in Spain. Members of his family were given a miserable time in school because of their Commie brother.
Having been wounded by shrapnel, he was hospitalised then imprisoned in San Sebastian Goal.
He tells the story of a young lad of about 14 being brought into the prison suspected of being a messenger for the Republicans. The Italian commandant decided there was not enough evidence to convict the boy and was prepared to let him go, when a priest from the lad's village, there to see to the prisoners' spiritual needs, gave evidence against the lad, who was shot with a dozen more the following day.
When he told me the story it was the only time I ever saw my father weep.
Jim Carroll