I suppose you need to be of a certain vintage to know anything about troops being stationed in N.I. during WWII, or perhaps to have a bit of curiosity about history. I was just five years old
when the troops - mostly Canadian I found out later - were using our hawthorn hedgerows and small rolling hills to simulate the Normandy countryside. The roads were blocked for days
and there were soldiers everywhere, it was the biggest event in my young life for quite a while.