I started to write this, I might turn it into a story I don’t know yet…
A Mothers Son
They where laying on the roof of the old whiskey distillery, there was Sean and Martin and their officer in command Johnny, they had been laying on the roof waiting for the army and police patrol, going up the Grovener Road. Johnny had been training them on how to become snipers, they each had a lee enfield rifle. It was miserable oul day the rain had been on and off all morning. Sean and Martin had just joined the auxiliary’s they where a part of the Irish Republican Army, like a ghost squad that not many knew about, they where the elite. There was normally two army jeeps and a police jeep, they would roam the streets looking for young men and women to stop and search in the catholic areas.
They had been on the roof for over three hours now, the patrol had been late, usually at the same time each day they would drive up the road. There would be a army jeep at the front and a police jeep in the middle and another army jeep at the back. Their mission was to kill or wound as many police as possible, without being spotted.
Just then they spotted the patrol coming up the road, they loaded their weapons and took aim. Johnny explained to them to take it easy, and to only fire when they had the targets in their sights. Sean was nervous he started to shake, he had only ever fired a weapon at targets up on the Black Mountain in Belfast, and never at a real target. Johnny took hold of Sean’s arm, and told him to calm down, that he didn’t have to fire if he felt uneasy.
The patrol pulled to a halt outside the lesuire centre, on the main road. Two police officers got out of the jeep, and went to the middle of the road to stop the traffic, they where then followed by three soldiers, they got down on their knee’s weapons ready.
Martin aimed his weapon, he looked through the scope and found his target, it was a soldier he was sitting against the jeep, Martin opened fire, the bullets started to fly towards there target, the soldier then slumped against the jeep, blood was everywhere, Johnny confirmed that it was a kill. The police jumped behind their jeeps for cover, they had no idea where the shots had come from. One soldier had spotted where the fire came from, he shouted to his comrades “on the roof on the roof, over there” the soldier opened fire, the bullets started to bounce of the tin roof, where Johnny and the boys lay, Sean stood up on the roof, Johnny was shouting at him to lay down, but it was to late, Sean was hit in the stomach from a stray bullet.
Johnny went towards Sean there was blood everywhere, he took off his shirt and put it on Sean’s stomach to stop the blood. The patrol had spotted the location, they had gotten in their jeeps and where heading towards the distillery. Martin opened fire on the jeeps, he was aiming for the wheels so he could slow them down, he got a direct hit on the army jeep, it swerved to the side of the road and crashed into a brick wall. Johnny took the wounded Sean off the roof, and they got down into the back of the distillery, and they went through the door into the entry. Martin followed them into the entry, Johnny came to the first house and started to bang on the door, and elderly women opened the door, when she seen the blood soaking through the shirt that Johnny had put over Sean’s stomach, she told them to come in, they made there way into the women’s house.
Out in the street there was army and police everywhere, they had blocked the street off with army jeeps.
The old women took them up the stairs and into her attic, Sean was in a bad state they needed to get him to a hospital, but it was to dangerous outside. Sean started to speak ,’get my mother’, he said. Johnny asked the old women who’s name was Bridget to go and get Sean’s mother, as she only lived down the street. Bridget made her way out of the house and down the street, when she came to the house she rapped the door and a women came out, she explained to her the situation. The women quickly followed Bridget back to her house, when she arrived in the attic her son Sean was in a bad way. She knelt beside her son, she took his head and rested it on her knee, ‘mother he said’, yes my son .’im dieing’, Sean said, mother ‘,your not son you will be ok’, Sean closed his eyes and passed away, his mother was in tears it was her only son, she fell to the floor and wept, ‘my son my son she said’, you only wanted to fight for your country, as of did other countries before us, whom they had brought their darkness, down upon us, could they have not left us in peace, why did they kill Ireland’s sons and daughters and our children, cause of their evil wicked ways, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace…