It's called the North's forgotten atrocity. Nine people died in the Claudy bombing in July 1972 but they never received any public recognition.
That changed yesterday when the Co Derry village came to a standstill for an interdenominational service and the unveiling of a statue in their memory by the artist Elizabeth McLaughlin. It is of a young girl kneeling, her head bowed in grief.
The names of the victims have been inscribed on nine bronze plaques. Their friends and families laid flowers beside the statue.
It was unveiled by two children - Mark McLaughlin, whose grandmother Rose (52) died, and Emma Carton, whose grandfather Joseph McCloskey (39) was also killed.
Firefighters, police officers and ambulance crews who helped in the aftermath of the explosion were present. Also in attendance was the head of the North's Victims Commission, Sir Kenneth Bloomfield.
"This is a very important day for us," said Merle Eakin, whose daughter Kathryn was the youngest victim.
"It should have happened a long time ago. But Claudy was the same year as Bloody Sunday in Derry and Bloody Friday in Belfast and everybody forgot us. Newspapers would list atrocities and we wouldn't even be mentioned."
There was no high-profile murder investigation on the scale of Omagh. No paramilitary group even admitted responsibility, let alone offered an apology. No film or football stars visited. Counselling wasn't even offered to the bereaved.
It was a bright summer morning when the three no-warning car-bombs exploded.
The first went off at 10.15 a.m. outside McElhinney's pub and petrol station. The second exploded outside Beaufort's Hotel five minutes later as people ran screaming from the first bomb. The final device went off outside the post office. In less than 15 minutes, six people lay dead. Three later died from their injuries.
With a population of just 410, everyone in Claudy knew those killed. The village had no history of inter-communal strife. Mrs Eakin fought back tears as she recalled how her daughter had been cleaning the windows of the family's grocery shop. "She was hit by shrapnel. We lived above the shop and it was wrecked by the bomb. We couldn't even bury Kathryn from our own home. The authorities sent a cheque of £58 for her life. We should never have accepted it."
No one was every charged with the bombing, in which five Catholics and four Protestants were killed.
The Provisional IRA denied responsibility but is widely believed to have been involved. Earlier that morning, the British army had mounted Operation Motorman in an attempt to smash "no-go" areas in Derry.
Bombing Claudy was an attempt to draw troops from the Bogside but the telephone which was meant to be used to deliver the warning wasn't working.
Joseph McCloskey was Deirdre Kane's father. "I was 11 when daddy died," she said. "I remember him but most of my seven other brothers and sisters don't. The youngest was only 18 months. This service is very important for them." The other victims were Artie Hone (38); Willie Temple (16) who was on his first day at work on a milk round; Elizabeth McElhinney (59); Joseph Connolly (15) who was going for a job interview in Desmond's factory; James McClelland (65); and David Miller (60).
Mr Miller was helping people from the first bomb to the medical centre when he was caught in the second blast. He was blown into his own garden.
Patricia Byrne, whose mother was Rose McLaughlin, said: "The commemoration is an important step on the road to recovery for our families and the community as a whole. If atrocities are swept under the carpet, the healing process can never really succeed."