As midnight passed there was none of the fanfare of the Black Watch's withdrawal from Hong Kong a decade ago, nor the frantic drama at the US Embassy in Saigon in 1975 or the urgency or heroism of Dunkirk in 1940.
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No fanfare... but after 38 years a chapter of history is closed
News Focus: It was expected to take weeks. Now, finally, soldiers have left Northern Ireland, writes Gerry Braiden .
