00:05Spud and Graham were based at Fork Hill, but were sent on operations all around the southern border.
00:11What he grew in memory is this area was controlled by the IRA.
00:16I mean, this is bandit country. You couldn't move anywhere here.
00:20We didn't have enough troops to saturate the area, and as you can see, it's rural.
00:24The Kilner-Sagget Bridge is on the mainline to Belfast
00:27and was one of the most bombed bridges during the Northern Ireland conflict.
00:32I mean, as you can see, there's bullet marks here, strike marks.
00:35There's one there.
00:37Yeah.
00:40There's here.
00:41There's a few over here.
00:42Yeah.
00:42One, two, three, four, five, six.
00:47We had an ambush here, and, um, about three o'clock in the morning.
00:52And we had a car pull up.
00:54Basically, what he was doing was obviously doing a recce, yeah?
00:58To see if we reacted, if there was any troops there to react.
01:00The rules of engagement were to only fire if fired upon.
01:04And then, all of a sudden, they let rip, we let rip, and then they disappeared off.
01:11And this is in seconds.
01:12What they did find was they found a bataclava, a shotgun, and two blood trails heading off this direction, to
01:23the south.
01:24And a half-eaten cheese.
01:26Last time they were here, they were under fire.
01:29So, naturally, they're still on their guard.
01:32But I don't have any great desire to hang around here, to be quite honest with you.
01:35An official ceasefire was declared by both sides in April 1998, known as the Good Friday Agreement.
01:42With this in place, things are a lot calmer in these parts now.
01:45But two ex-army guys in a car with a camera crew is very dangerous.
01:50If we get flagged down to stop, don't stop, okay?
01:53All right?
01:53Seriously, you know?
01:54Don't...
01:56As they approach their old base at Falk Hill, I uncover a sight of Spud that I'd never seen before.
02:02He starts to show some cracks.
02:05No, I don't feel good at all.
02:07A hell of a lot.
02:08But there's also...
02:09There's also...
02:10There's always a...
02:12You know?
02:14Even myself being a local man, you know, it's...
02:16It's not part of Northern Ireland's for...
02:18I just can't see it as part of Northern Ireland.
02:21It's strange.
02:22So we need to shoot off, I think, before somebody...
02:25Moe bowls through, to let them know that there's a camera.
02:28His time in Falk Hill is clearly part of his life he wants to forget.
02:32What I've seen and heard so far, I can't even imagine the horrors that these two men have experienced.
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