On this day 25 years ago, Sean Kelly and Thomas Begley carried a bomb into Frizzell's fish shop on the Shankill Road - an act of terror that irrevocably changed their lives and that of the men, women and children caught up in that terrible atrocity.
Within minutes, Kelly was severely injured and Begley lay dead along with nine people who were innocently going about their business on a busy Saturday afternoon.
It is 25 years yet the memory of the horror that was visited on the Shankill Road is just as vivid now for those who witnessed the aftermath of the explosion, who pulled victims from the rubble and desperately tried to save lives.
Most especially that day is indelibly etched into the consciousness of the loved ones of those killed, their lives altered forever from the moment they were told the most devastating news imaginable.
It is a moment of indescribable pain and anguish that has been repeated in thousands of homes over the course of our troubled past.
A series of events have been taking place to mark the anniversary of the bomb, including an exhibition in Shankill Methodist Church which included photographs and artefacts, some belonging to the youngest victims.
As with other anniversaries and memorial events commemorating the ghastly landmarks of our conflict, they serve to remind us of the dreadful and unnecessary loss of life during that awful period, of the suffering of those who have been bereaved and of the futility of violence.
Above all - and as some of the relatives of the Shankill bomb victims have stated over the past few days - we remember these atrocities in order that we do not go down the same path of bloodshed ever again.
