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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