Updated / Thursday, 4 Mar 2021
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Incident on the German-Czech Border - listen to Noel Harrington s audio essay above.
I was not used to seeing soldiers in real life. And I certainly wasn t used to having one stand in my train compartment with a very large gun over his shoulder, and a look of suspicion in his narrowed eyes. For the umpteenth time, he looked at my passport photo, and then back to my face. Neither seemed to please him.
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