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...story was researched by Eileen Chiu and Brigid O'Hara-Forster and written by Senior Writer Lance Morrow, who wrote a much acclaimed Essay on Viet Nam veterans (TIME, June 1). Says Morrow: "Viet Nam was a shattering blow to this country. Americans are slowly beginning to face that complicated era and are giving Viet Nam veterans the help, acknowledgment and respect that they deserve...
...Hara urged the audience to offer continued support for the IRA prisoners and to help Northern Ireland reach a solution before more hunger strikers...
Other speakers included Elizabeth O'Hara, sister of Patsy O' Hara, another hunger striker who died, and Malachy McCreesh, brother of Ray McCreesh, who also died...
Sands, who, along with O'Hara and McCreesh, has been touring the United States to stir up support for the hunger strikers, finished by praising Boston Irish Americans in particular for their support...
...Hara also described atrocities allegedly committed by the British, and said that after her brother died "cigarette burns were visible on his eyelids and it was clear that his nose had been broken...