8xtra Stuart Griffiths p2

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Smoking in Kenya, 1992	On patrol in the early hours of the morning, West Belfast, 1990
Perhaps Griffiths was atypical in questioning his environment, which was after all, providing sanctuary of sorts. At 16, he had joined the Parachute Regiment, “desperate for a maroon beret and to jump out of planes”. He served in Northern Ireland, listened to the guys in the sergeants’ mess getting drunker and drunker and bemoaning their broken relationships, saw his mate’s legs get blown off in East Tyrone, and grew increasingly disillusioned. “I spent the 1988 ‘summer of love’ marching up and down squares, bayoneting dummies,” he remembers...	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 >>