Across the River Foyle from Londonderry's nationalist Gobnascale estate is the city's sprawling cemetery, where those killed on Bloody Sunday were laid to rest 38 years ago.
The sun shines off the black marble headstones and the river below, which divides the hilly city between the predominantly nationalist west bank and largely unionist east bank.
Further upstream the half-built foundations of the city's Peace Bridge can be seen, which will symbolically link the two sides of the river.
Although sited on the east bank, also known as the Waterside, Gobnascale is one of Londonderry's major Catholic housing areas and the Saville Inquiry findings were foremost on the minds of many residents.
On Wednesday afternoon, Catherine Logue stood behind the counter in the Day Today corner shop, the television on in the background, reflecting on the historic occasion as customers browsed the aisles.
She cautiously welcomed Prime Minister David Cameron's apology.
"It's certainly long overdue ... we have to wait and just gauge what the reactions are," she said. Ms Logue said the killings affected everyone in the city.
"Because Derry's so small, everybody knows everyone.
"They used to say you know one half of Derry and the other half knows you.
"Everybody is affected by the whole thing. It's 38 years but it's still very, very fresh."
Ms Logue was 18 when the march took place on January 30, 1972. Her future husband Jim and her sister took part, while one of her school friends was going out with 17-year-old Jackie Duddy, who was the first to be killed.
Her colleague in the shop, 50-year-old Mary Doherty, said the same young girl was her babysitter at the time.
"It affected us all. Everybody would know someone or knew someone who was there or injured or killed," Ms Logue said.
Outside the shop Irish flags fluttered in a soft breeze from atop lampposts painted green, white and orange. Sarah Kelly's cousin Michael Kelly was one of the victims of Bloody Sunday, and the now 74-year-old dismissed the report's publication.
"I think it's going to bring nothing," she said.
"Ones won't go over the town today. They're feared that bother might start up."
Her husband William though, the TV on in front of him, believed Mr Cameron could do nothing more.
"I don't think he could do any more than what he's done. It's been proven that the people that were shot on Bloody Sunday were murdered and there was no retaliation or gunfire," he said.
Just half a mile from Gobnascale, the green, white and orange of the Tricolour was replaced by the blue, red and white of the Union Jack in the unionist Irish Street area.
Perhaps not surprisingly residents of the ironically named estate were more tight-lipped, and seemed less informed of the historic events, with one woman enquiring of a press photographer if he was there to cover the closing of the local post office.
"I wouldn't have a notion what you're on about," she said, waving her hand and backing away when asked about the Saville Inquiry.
In Nelson Drive, another strong unionist housing area close-by, shopkeeper Nancy Mulberry, 58, accepted there were divisions between the two communities over the event but struck a conciliatory tone. Neatly stacked newspapers sat on the floor of the shop, screaming headlines about the eyes of the world being on the city.
"If something untoward happened then there should be something done about it," Ms Mulberry said. "I know if it was my son and something had happened to him that day then I'd want something done."