John Crawley

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Anything Goes with James English · US Marine Fighting for the IRA - John Crawley Tells His Story · 18 Apr 2026 podcast

You don't want to be out there doing the business, you know?

So, you know.

So I got three extra years for that.

So with the two remissions, I ended up doing a full 10.

So I went into jail in September 84 and I came out in September 94.

So the full 10 stretch?

It wasn't nearly as bad.

We had strip searching and there were beatings and things from time to time, but it wasn't systematic like Sam Miller and them boys got, you know, Richard O'Rourke, people like that.

I don't know how they got through it, really.

Because even like, you know, I talk about the special forces training, you know, six weeks of hell.

Some of those guys had six years of it every day.

You know, it took a special type of man to survive that.

Because you see...

They could leave the blanket anytime, just say, I'm leaving, I'm going.

And, you know, they would have been taken right off, put into uniform and be given just normal treatment.

At any time, you can click your fingers and leave the torture.

Plus they were getting, losing remission every day.

So some of them were actually adding years to their sentences they didn't need to do.

So, I mean, the bravery of those men and the commitment and the sheer heroism, because, you know,

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