What to say is difficult, because the NI goalposts have moved so far for political expediency. I never served in that benighted Province, thank Deity. But, adequately impacted personally to have a totally unbalanced view about the murdering ba*r**ds vs. The Home Team facing their own deaths every single day from various methods.
In England …
My mother caught up in a railway station event.
Me, my daughter and my father on-site for the Heathrow T1 bomb (and my car survived)
Me handily placed for the No 10 mortar attack.
… and add personal friends murdered or damaged.
Hundreds of cold-blooded murders still walk the streets. Is it any wonder that those on the Blue Team who were there and suffered stretched the boundaries?