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Subject: Reflections of Belfast

Author:
Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 11:25:37 03/12/05 Sat

Belfast city centre was a great place to be, apart from the 'Troubles'. You could never take anything at face value over there! The 'Bomb-scares'used to be the worst! I remember going into a big store like Woolworths with this Rupert and walking as calm as you like into the middle of the shopping area and him removing his sun glasses and saying those two magic words "Bomb-scare". Whereupon everybody picked up their possessions and left the store as calm and collected as you like,they being so used to going through these terrors every day over there in some form or other! We didn't need to be told when you were entering a hard line area,you would instinctively know by the change in atmosphere and acted accordingly by chambering a round up the breech just as a precaution you understand!....We were searching a train that had just come in from the south from Dublin and nobody had told us that this train usually changed platforms and was shunted out and brought back on a different line!...We were flapping big time because we thought we were on our way to Dublin(as the song goes) in the green, and feeling green so to speak! It was only afterwards that we could laugh about it!...Our faces must have been a picture thinking of the worst possible scenario' Strange how after all this time that these things come to mind!.....Don't you think?

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