SF 1989 + NY office split · p.170
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these.
- all uf us -- through very dlfficult times of depresslon and isolation. Your support empowert us -
- you give us hope.
If you wure wlth our families, you would see. we live every day with the risk of sudden
arrest and iniprlsonment, with the financlal burden that falls on our wives and children. Each of us
knows that, should the worst occur, our loved ones will be looked after. Your contributions wrap
them Hke & protectlve blanket. They are insulated from the bribes of the R.u.C.. and from the
attempts to blame us for their hardship. In this way, you fuel our dotetmination.
If you unly knew our children, you would see. It is our children who will inherit the hard-
won benefits uf ihis struggle, and we are torm because our separation from them adds to the
deprlvations they will encounter In any case. Your support puts the food on the table, and clothes
If you traveled with the relatlves of the prisonert, you would also see. Your contributions
pay the costs uf trunsportation to the prisons for visits. The human contact these visits provide i5
so nccessary to our perseverance. The vlsite are also the only means for communlcatlon to comt
into and vut uf the prisons. Your contributions keep sllve our only link to the outside world.
These six years now, I am "on the run". One or two steps ahead of the enemy. I am writing
to you fron yet another "safe house". I don't know the famlly who lives here. They don't ask me
my name or why I need to be here. Yet they have rlsked everything to shelter me for a few houn
or a few days.
You see, it is the xuppurt of people who I've never met and can't really know, people like
you, that keeps me free. And for this I am doeply grateful. Because we are closer to our goal every
day. But we can't do it without you. And I pledge to you, along with thousands of Nationalist men
and women, to continue our work towards that day that seem8 so close now -- when we can agaily
be withi our owm peuple ai limes like Chrlstmas and the new year in an Ireland united and free.
Please let you holp us. Go raibh maith agut.
b6
b7c
P.S. Three lads who escaped with me, cloge frlends, are no longer with us. The Brltish Army caught
up with Claran Fleming, Seamus McElwaine, and Padralg McKeamey, and simply shot thom dead.
Others have been recaptured. There are now elght hundred republican prisoners, and we must help
support each of ihose famlles. Please put whatever you can aside for them, and send it along.
There is hardly a more meaningful gift you can make this year, nor one that will be more
appreciated.
Also, on behalf of the prlsoners and their familes, I wll personaly acknowledge your contributlon.
We wll never forget you.
slhta k lt
Coffieial IrishNorthernAid IifelineCertifieate
YES! Pleasc accepi my Gift for the families of the Irlsh Prlsoners.
GIFT AM0UNT: 815.00 25.00 $5.00_L150.00 100.00
□
PAY TOTHE ORDER OF:
IrishNorthern Aid Commilttee
METHOD OF PAYMENT: My Check or Money Orderis Encloscd
Please charge my Vi5A OMASTERCARD Cad Numlxr:
MYNAMIE:
lixpDhte..
MY ADDRESS:
CIrY,STATE
ZIP:.
Pleusense the post-paid respxnse enveloyx.OR for Credit Cord Contributlons: Call the lrish Northern
Ald LifeHne at (212) 567-0707 or (212) 867-5786.Wc are In waiting 1here for yu figbt 1wow.
these.
- all uf us -- through very dlfficult times of depresslon and isolation. Your support empowert us -
- you give us hope.
If you wure wlth our families, you would see. we live every day with the risk of sudden
arrest and iniprlsonment, with the financlal burden that falls on our wives and children. Each of us
knows that, should the worst occur, our loved ones will be looked after. Your contributions wrap
them Hke & protectlve blanket. They are insulated from the bribes of the R.u.C.. and from the
attempts to blame us for their hardship. In this way, you fuel our dotetmination.
If you unly knew our children, you would see. It is our children who will inherit the hard-
won benefits uf ihis struggle, and we are torm because our separation from them adds to the
deprlvations they will encounter In any case. Your support puts the food on the table, and clothes
If you traveled with the relatlves of the prisonert, you would also see. Your contributions
pay the costs uf trunsportation to the prisons for visits. The human contact these visits provide i5
so nccessary to our perseverance. The vlsite are also the only means for communlcatlon to comt
into and vut uf the prisons. Your contributions keep sllve our only link to the outside world.
These six years now, I am "on the run". One or two steps ahead of the enemy. I am writing
to you fron yet another "safe house". I don't know the famlly who lives here. They don't ask me
my name or why I need to be here. Yet they have rlsked everything to shelter me for a few houn
or a few days.
You see, it is the xuppurt of people who I've never met and can't really know, people like
you, that keeps me free. And for this I am doeply grateful. Because we are closer to our goal every
day. But we can't do it without you. And I pledge to you, along with thousands of Nationalist men
and women, to continue our work towards that day that seem8 so close now -- when we can agaily
be withi our owm peuple ai limes like Chrlstmas and the new year in an Ireland united and free.
Please let you holp us. Go raibh maith agut.
b6
b7c
P.S. Three lads who escaped with me, cloge frlends, are no longer with us. The Brltish Army caught
up with Claran Fleming, Seamus McElwaine, and Padralg McKeamey, and simply shot thom dead.
Others have been recaptured. There are now elght hundred republican prisoners, and we must help
support each of ihose famlles. Please put whatever you can aside for them, and send it along.
There is hardly a more meaningful gift you can make this year, nor one that will be more
appreciated.
Also, on behalf of the prlsoners and their familes, I wll personaly acknowledge your contributlon.
We wll never forget you.
slhta k lt
Coffieial IrishNorthernAid IifelineCertifieate
YES! Pleasc accepi my Gift for the families of the Irlsh Prlsoners.
GIFT AM0UNT: 815.00 25.00 $5.00_L150.00 100.00
□
PAY TOTHE ORDER OF:
IrishNorthern Aid Commilttee
METHOD OF PAYMENT: My Check or Money Orderis Encloscd
Please charge my Vi5A OMASTERCARD Cad Numlxr:
MYNAMIE:
lixpDhte..
MY ADDRESS:
CIrY,STATE
ZIP:.
Pleusense the post-paid respxnse enveloyx.OR for Credit Cord Contributlons: Call the lrish Northern
Ald LifeHne at (212) 567-0707 or (212) 867-5786.Wc are In waiting 1here for yu figbt 1wow.