Sorry for gate crashing your journal but I just wanted to say I agree. I think America thought it was untouchable. I remember the fear of bombing in London when the IRA were very active, my mum impressed it upon me, was worried about London and going there. It was very real. So yeah we knew all about it. We also knew that some people in America raised money to help the IRA.
It was a truly awful awful event but you are right people learnt to hate and that needs to be undone somehow.
Hi, pleased to meet you :) absolutely people need to unlearn hate, because that just begets more hate. I once met a young (in his early 20's) man who said he hated all Irish people, because he was in the army and had had friends fall to IRA bombs. Now, this was after the IRA declared a ceasefire. My grandfather was known to be on an IRA hitlist, yet one of my best friends at work is Irish, and I married (and later, for unrelated reasons, divorced) an Irish man. If we can't put the past where it belongs we will never move forward.
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It was a truly awful awful event but you are right people learnt to hate and that needs to be undone somehow.
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