Monday, January 14, 2013

This and That from my Facebook Site, Cecilia Brainard

This and...
That
 Sinulog Week in Cebu, Philippines
 An image in a crowd ... a long time ago....
"In a grimy gray drizzle, under ragged black flags that lifted and waved balefully in the fitful air; to the wail of a single piper, on streets winding through charred and blasted brick spray-painted with slogans of hate; by silent tens of thousands, past fathers holding sons face-forward that they might remember the day, past mothers rocking and shielding prams that held tomorrow's fighters, past old men who blew their rheumy noses and remembered their own days of rage ... Bobby Sands was carried yesterday to a grave of raw Ulster mud."~ 1981 report from Belfast by Richard Ben Cramer who passed away on January 7, 2013.

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