Reply #221: I am in favor of a united Ireland and believe the British should

[Rhiannon12866]

pack up and go home. I never realized how strongly I felt on the subject until visiting Ireland and talking with IRA sympathizers soliciting signatures on the streets for their petitions. Actual IRA members would have been arrested on sight. These were the days of the hunger strikes. My dad's family came from Ireland and I am deeply moved by the stories of those who left Ireland to escape the famine and those who never made it to America. Eamon De Valera (who was also an American) is a hero and a patriot to me and I am most sorry that he didn't live to see a united Ireland. I voted "patriots" because I believe in their cause, though I cannot condone the murder of innocents. Sigh.:shrug: