We Remember

Year after year Month after month Day after day Hour after hour Bullet after bullet Shell after shell Soldier after soldier Brother after brother We remember their sacrifice We remember their names We remember the war We must remember, never...

Poppy Poem

Men falling Wounded crawling Guns fire Bang Bang Bombs drop Bang Bang Nine million dead Some in a hospital bed Poppies blow row by row

Two Minute Silence

We join a line at a bus stop No ordinary queue. A small gathering of strangers, all here for the same reason; to remember six young men none of us knew, killed in a place we can’t imagine. Their pictures pinned to the shelter wall; smiling, confident, brave. A...

‎7th December 1982,

Ballakelly was a long dark night in cold hell. Where beauty met the beast and horror was unleashed, so horrific my mind can not spell. it was called the dropping well. Some will speak and some will never tell. now days and hours have passed , weeks, months to years....