Patrick Moore wrote:
> * On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:59:35AM -0500, Richard Lovison said:
>> I'm curious Patrick... have you ever heard of an organization called
>> "The Irish Children's Fund"?
>
> I have. It receives a reasonable amount of media attention every now and
> then, and rightly so. Though I've not encountered anyone directly
> involved in it. Well, at least not had it come up in conversation anyway!
> The world is small enough that half the locals surrounding me here in the
> lab may well have been on it! We're all about the right age to have been
> through the program in its earlier years.
My wife and I (much more my wife than I) were involved with the ICF in
its early beginnings. I have many fond memories of those days and I
always wondered if my wife's efforts and those of others in the
organization helped ease some of the tension and pain in Northern Ireland.
Richard L
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