While this is already an
amazing song, I thought the emotional impact was increased
tenfold, when during a live performance in
Denver, Colorado, on Nov. 8,
1987, (the night of the bombing of a war memorial service in
Enniskillen in which 11 people died and more than 60 were injured)
Bono said the following while the rest of
U2 played in the background:
"And let me tell you something. I've had enough of Irish Americans who haven't been back to their country in 20 or 30 years and come up to me and talk about the resistance, the revolution back home. And the glory of the revolution, and the glory of dying for the revolution. Fuck the revolution! They don't talk about the glory of killing for the revolution. What's the glory in taking a man from his bed and gunning him down in front of his wife and his children. Where's the glory in that? Where's the glory in bombing a Remembrance Day parade of old age pensioners, their medals taken out and polished up for the day. Where's the glory in that? To leave them dying or crippled for life or DEAD, under the rubble of the revolution, that the majority of the people in my country don't want."