Hunger Strike Begins
March 1, 2016 · Print This Article
Thirty-five years ago today, the great Bobby Sands started his hunger strike demanding political status for he and his comrades. His death came after sixty-six grueling days.
Bobby Sands is a hero not just to Irish people but to freedom-loving peoples around the world.
Bobby and his fellow hunger strikers showed how callous and brutal the British Government is by giving up their young
Lives for what they believed in.
I remember this on the TV when I was a young man thinking
surely she will not allow these brave men to die.
I was in awe yet full of sadness and that feeling will never leave me.26+6=1.