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When I came back to Dublin, I was court martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so said they could shoot me in my absence.
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― The Hostage
― The Hostage
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Anyway, here I am still waiting for troops, with everybody in the highest places issuing orders that I am to have them and no one in the lower quarters taking the slightest step to obey. The result is that we are months and months back on our programme and God knows when we will begin to do anything. Once patience gets frayed to tatters, and the loathing that one engenders for this country and its unbelievable military system reaches a stage impossible to describe. I am due for repatriation and
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