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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Not unusual, savage story of the IRA campaign for total control of the 6 counties in the northeast that still remain British. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>An Poblacht means <i>the Republic</i> in Irish. Reading it gives a sense of the fervor, often murderous, of the independence movement. To this day, the Irish call it the Revolution, which finally achieved a nation after conquest of Eire in the 13-1400s. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>My 4 grandparents were all Irish and immigrated here in the 1890s. I was raised to hate the “Brits” because they “dragged my father’s cousin to death behind a van”. IRA cousin, it seemed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>However, when we visited the charming village of Dingle, where a monument to “Bobby Mac” exists even today, the story was a bit different: Bobby Mac was on the wrong side of the short, fortunately not too nasty, Civil war, and came down from the hills to “visit his mother, or go to Mass”. And was shot by Irish. The civil war was fought <i>after </i> the truce, and pitted those who wanted complete independence, vs those who would still swear allegiance to the King, and become effectively a Commonwealth country. We know who won. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Ironically, in our many visits to Eire, distaste for Brits is little more than a joke. Only once did we encounter real antipathy, and that family’s kids were…in school in UK! The 2 nations have almost no borders, Irish can still vote in local elections in UK< etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The Palestinian Israeli tragedy could learn from the Irish. After independence there was a Land Commission to fairly distribute the lordly estates. Many British owners left, many stayed, with less land. The same process took place in South Africa after apartheid ended. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Ireland was a poor, agricultural nation when we first visited in the 60s . The Irish were always highly educated, literate, witty, social. It was EU money that transformed the nation into the prosperous, dynamic republic. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Geoffrey W<b>. McCarthy</b> MD MBA DipAvMed Col USAFMC (ret)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>677 NW Melinda Ave<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Portland OR 97210<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>503-799-3809 (m)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Rovernet <rovernet-bounces@rovernet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lance La Certe via Rovernet<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 22, 2025 5:30 PM<br><b>To:</b> Rovernet <rovernet@rovernet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Lance La Certe <lacpsyd6@msn.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [Rovernet] Rover espionage!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Was in Washington DC last weekend and visited the fabulous Spy Musuem, just off the National Mall (if you haven't been, it is a MUST).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>As we were working our way through, I was caught off guard by a photo and story of an undercover soldier working for the British government who was killed by the IRA.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Pretty as you please, Telford Stuart, was leaning against a Series 1 P6<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Here ya go! (this is a very detailed article which was not part of the museum's display).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/26370">https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/26370</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;min-width: 424px' id="LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW5waG9ibGFjaHQuY29tL2NvbnRlbnRzLzI2Mzcw"><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border:solid #C8C8C8 1.0pt'><tr><td valign=top style='border:none;padding:9.0pt 27.0pt 9.0pt 9.0pt'><div style='margin-right:9.0pt;overflow:hidden' id=LPImageContainer889053><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/26370" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=240 height=163 style='width:2.5in;height:1.6979in' id="_x0000_i1026" src="https://www.anphoblacht.com/files/images/620/2016/Ted-Stuart-660x430.jpg"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></td><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;border:none;padding:9.0pt 27.0pt 9.0pt 9.0pt'><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt' id=LPTitle889053><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif'><a href="https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/26370" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'>MRF soldier-spy’s family wins first battle against British Arm...</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-height: 100px;overflow:hidden' id=LPDescription889053><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#666666'>Strabane-born soldier was killed when an IRA counter-intelligence unit ambushed him on 2 October 1972 during a ‘Four Square Laundry’ collection in west Belfast<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id=LPMetadata889053><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#A6A6A6'><a href="http://www.anphoblacht.com">www.anphoblacht.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr></table></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id=Signature><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Lance </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C82613'><o:p> 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