Story Archive
November 2008
Monday 03 November 2008
"I started to cry. It was hard to hold back the tears so I just let them flow…"
Tuesday 04 November 2008
"I heard the bang and every place shook…It felt like the end of the world to me."
Wednesday 05 November 2008
"You start to get a feel for how vast this battlefield was…"
Thursday 06 November 2008
"We were put to bed but shortly after 10 o’clock the sirens began to sound…"
Friday 07 November 2008
"In one way it seemed very unreal…you felt that this wasn’t happening to you."
Sunday 09 November 2008
"I didn’t know enough to be afraid. You didn’t know how bad things would get."
Tuesday 11 November 2008
"I was very upset…I couldn’t imagine how anybody would want to leave…"
Wednesday 12 November 2008
"…I just felt like crying because it was such a relief to have someone else there."
Thursday 13 November 2008
"When we got there the place was busting…we were thinking, 'I hope there's plenty of partners here!'"
Monday 17 November 2008
"I didn’t cry - I think I was too shocked to cry. And, I never talked to anybody about it."
Tuesday 18 November 2008
"I always had mixed feelings about living in Belfast. It was a love hate thing…"
Wednesday 19 November 2008
"I said to my daughter, ‘When I was your age I would have killed for this opportunity’."
Monday 24 November 2008
"This long tear rolled down my cheek. I thought, ‘How am I going to wipe that? I don’t want her to see me crying’."
Tuesday 25 November 2008
"All the time my grandfather was with us. He warned us to touch nothing but to just enjoy the experience."
Wednesday 26 November 2008
"I knew before I answered the phone what it is, it was the police…"
Friday 28 November 2008
"I had to go in, sit down and have some make-up done. This was unusual…"
