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Not Saluting

  • Ken Wright
  • Interview by: Jess Boydon-Juckes

Transcript

This was at the

the height of, paramilitary activity.

but predominantly from,

So there was a policy of, of policing

your vehicle before you got into it

and I think

they saw

to, to be aware of the surroundings

if you're carrying a, a officer

it was seen as the obvious progression

to drivers

it was a time when

the, the officers cars

It would be brightly colored

Montego or, brightly colored Vauxhall's

with no military plates on it,

a guard on the gate,

what an officer was coming in and what car

If you didn't salute.

You know, there's

one occasion where I looked in utter

engineering sworn through a gates

We were live armed at a time.

He went straight through,

rotating in the back window

and steam coming out of it.

And sure enough, minutes later,

the you know, centurion wants to know why

I said, well, I'm trying to decide

Yeah.

So what she said, okay, well,

or not shooting. Which one would you like?

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