A big welcome to readers in Ireland
Many thanks to my readers
I wish to thank readers in Ireland for reading the blog, it is your support which keeps me writing.
I was posted to Ireland during The Troubles, in 1979. I was one of the last servicemen to be awarded the General Service Medal for the campaign. Until recently, when a man pointed out anywhere in Northern Ireland at the time was classed as a war zone, I desputed my medal as I was stationed 15 miles behind the action.
Northern Ireland was not the only war zone I was posted to, earlier, I was posted to Germany, you may not consider Germany as a war zone, but I was posted there months after the Red Army Faction were jailed, and NATO was on full alert, expecting a terrorist attack at any moment