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Sanders unveil 'Johnny I hardly knew ye' plaque in Athy [Ireland]
RTÉ News ^ | Monday, 26 May 2025 07:00 | Barry Gallagher

Posted on 05/26/2025 5:42:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Wife of US Senator Bernie Sanders, Jane O’Meara Sanders, has called for an end to “sending our sons and daughters to war” during a visit to Athy, Co Kildare.

The couple unveiled a plaque commemorating the song “Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye” at a war memorial in St. Michael’s Cemetery outside the south Kildare town this afternoon.

M(r)s. O’Meara Sanders can directly trace her ancestors, the Coyles, back to Athy, of which some are commemorated at the graveyard having fought during World War I.

Written in the 19th century, “Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye”, an Irish anti-war folk song, tells the story of an Athy woman who reunites with her lover Johnny, now unrecognizable after returning from war.

Speaking at the unveiling, M(r)s. O’Meara Sanders said the song was often sung during protests during the Vietnam War.

“We sang it at every march, at every rally, sadly at home. But what we need to do is take these words to heart and not send any more of our sons and daughters to war,” she said. …

(Excerpt) Read more at rte.ie ...


TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: antiwar; athy; bernie; eussr; fartyshadesofgreen; fourthreich; ireland; sanders
Pity the Sanders(es) won’t stay there.
1 posted on 05/26/2025 5:42:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

FTA: ... M(r)s. O’Meara Sanders said the song was often sung during protests during the Vietnam War.

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Typical Rat lie.


2 posted on 05/26/2025 6:07:42 AM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: Olog-hai

Trump is still the only president that never started a war. The wars he has to deal are all he inherited. Did Mrs. Sanders complain to Biden and asked him to stop all wars? I think Mrs Sanders should be called Mrs. “Johnny-comes-lately” Sanders.


3 posted on 05/26/2025 6:36:34 AM PDT by paudio (MATH: 45<47)
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To: Olog-hai

More cheap virtue signalling.


4 posted on 05/26/2025 7:24:27 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Olog-hai

“Wife of US Senator Bernie Sanders, Jane O’Meara Sanders, has called for an end to “sending our sons and daughters to war”

...except against Russia, and then China, given Bernie’s voting record.


5 posted on 05/26/2025 8:08:55 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Seruzawa

Funny how “virtue” signaling is about vice rather than virtue.


6 posted on 05/26/2025 12:05:56 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Bigg Red

Never mind the actual text reading “Ms O’Meara Sanders” rather than “Mrs”.


7 posted on 05/26/2025 12:06:56 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

For leftists “Mrs” is not seen as the beautiful honorific that it is. Of course, not so beautiful in this case since it requires marriage to the fraud Bernie Ssnders.


8 posted on 05/26/2025 12:45:20 PM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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