HANG…HANGING…HUNG!!!

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13-12-2001. It is more than a series of numbers separated by hyphens to make a 13th day of the 12th month of the first year of the new millennium. It's a date etched in the memory of a nation forever. It's on this fateful day, five years ago, that a group of 5 fully armed men stormed their way into the shaken, scarred and stirred psyche of a nation. A shocked nation watched the 'drama' unfold and let out a collective gasp. As I saw with a bated breath on the morning of 13th December 2001, LIVE if I might add, soldiers in the Parliament battling these five armed terrorists, explosives going off, bullets whizzing past soldiers & journalists, I knew this was not a 'normal' terror strike. Even by our standards - used - as we are to some ghastly ones every now and then - this....