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This memory involves my brother Edwin who, at the tender age of eleven years, was accused of being a collaborator. I remember the evening well. My mother went to answer the door and found a policeman standing there. The officer wanted to question Edwin (who I believe was in the bath at the time), regarding a fire that had been lit on the Knockagh (or 鈥渦p the Knockagh鈥� as we used to say). The Knockagh was a near-by hill and it was believed that the fire had been lit on it to guide enemy planes. Some boys had given Edwin鈥檚 name as the perpetrator. I can鈥檛 remember how he was exonerated 鈥� but he must have had a good alibi!

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