DEATH of A SOLDIER

A note about this story

English people sometimes speak of Britain. sometimes we speak of the United Kingdom. and often we simply speak of England. But the full name of our country is the United kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Look at the map of Ireland above. In the South, there is The Republik of Ireland, called Eire. Eire is an independent country. Eire is not part of the United Kingdom. Most of the people in Eire are Catholics. Northorn 
Ireland is part of United Kingdom.  Some Catholics want to be part of Repulik of Ireland.
       This srory was written in the 1970s. The way that soldier work in Northern Ireland has now changed, but there are more than 12 ooo British soldiers in Northern Ireland.  The soldier' job is to stop the fighting. Since 1969, almost 2000 peaple have been killed. 
      More than 400 soliers have died in this fighting. This story is about one of them. Who killed the soldier? 
were the gunmen Protestants?
were the gunmen Catholics? we don't know.

      David Hall was nineteen years old. He lived in Liverpool. David was nearly six feet tall, with brown hair and brown ayes. David didn't have a job. There were very few jobs in Liverpool.
David had a girlfriend.  her name was Carol and she was also nineteen. They went out together a lot.  One day david joined the army. He didn't want tobe a soldier, but he needed a job.
'dont join  the army,' Carol told him. But David didn't listen to Carol.
     David learnt to be a soldier. He stayed in Liverpool for four months. He saw Carol every weekend.  Then the army sent him to Belfast.
     David went to Belfast by boat. It was November. The boat arrived late in the afternoon. It was raining.
there were hundreds of soldiers on the boat. They slowly left the boat and then waited in the rain. David was cold and wet. He spoke to the soldier next to him.
'why are we waiting?' David asked.
'look over there,' the soldier replied. David looked. The soldiers were taking something from a table.



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