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    REFLECTIONS FROM THE ‘JADOTVILLE TIGERS’

    Nov 27, 2017 4 minutes

    Large crowds of UN veterans and spectators gathered for the ceremony in Civic Square, Athlone for the ceremony

    Jadotville veteran Jimmy Feery DSM laid a wreath for all members of A Company, 35th Battalion in front of the newly unveiled plaque

    “WE WERE BRANDED AS COWARDS, WHICH WE WEREN’T”

    JOHN GORMAN

    1961 RANK: PRIVATE

    “Jadotville Day made me feel brilliant and sad at the same time, because I’ve been campaigning for a long time, and I was just so happy for the few veterans that are left and the families. They’ve waited 56 years for this.

    “We were branded as cowards, which we weren’t, and it’s just a marvellous time now for me. Nobody ever, ever gave us a chance of this ever happening but determination

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