Tasked with laying the wreath on behalf of Fermanagh District Council, Ulster Unionist Councillor Raymond Ferguson remembers well the horrific scenes which erupted on Belmore Street that November morning, and the political fall-out in the following days.
However, while still vividly etched in his memory, Mr Ferguson believes the people of Enniskillen reacted in a way which defied the bombers, as he explained: "The town came through it a lot better than could have been the case. People used it to unify rather than divide. And that's a positive thing.
"Obviously, for the people who were directly affected, it is more difficult for them, but by and large I think the community came through it well."
Mr Ferguson said: "The bomb was a tremendous shock for the town. Up to that point, Enniskillen had suffered a lot less than other towns of a similar size. It was a very well integrated town and there were no sectarian tensions in Enniskillen. To it's credit, the bomb didn't really damage those good community relations".
But, he went on: "There was a huge feeling of shock and shame that this could have happened in Enniskillen. In both communities, there was shame this had happened on their town.
"This was a world-wide story, it wasn't just the individuals and families who were involved, it was a landmark event that made headlines all over the world, and the one thing it really highlighted was the whole futility of what was happening in Northern Ireland."
Recalling the 8th November 1987, Mr Ferguson says: "Every Remembrance Sunday Councillors used to assemble near O'Doherty's shop. That's where we were when the bomb went off. What struck me at the time was that I knew it was a bomb, but I didn't think it was a particularly big one, I thought it was under somebody's car in one of the car parks.
"But, then at the same time a tremendous amount of mist came down, which later turned out to have come from the rubble of the old Reading Rooms. Then there was about half a minute of silence, and then the screaming started," he continued.
"You weren't really sure what had happened. The police and the UDR hadn't taken up their positions for the service at that time, so everyone who was standing around were civilians. Soon it became clear what had happened, that the walls of the Reading Rooms had been blown outwards and had crushed the people standing in front of it up against the metal barrier.
'You could see immediately there were causalities and you weren't sure whether they could be recovered, so everyone scrambled over to try and help people out.
"The police and the UDR came along, there was a tremendous crowd of people trying to do their best to help people. At that time it was just confusion.
"I remember Gordon Wilson had been pulled out of the rubble, and he was taken over to sit down on the War Memorial. He was obviously badly shaken, and was asking where Marie was. He didn't really seem to know what had happened."
At that stage no-one was prepared for the final death toll, Mr Ferguson says: "Then there followed a couple of hours of uncertainty, before news started to come through there had been fatalities."
As a politician, and as a Councillor, he and his colleagues started to react to the bomb.
The Ulster Unionist member explained how: " The Council was chaired by Sinn Fein at that stage, and there was a lot of tension and high-feeling, there was a lot of emotion and a lot of anger, and that was palpable. Particularly at a special meeting of the Council which was held the day after the bomb."
