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Today is the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War. This is now slipping into history. I was a part of it, which is worrying, as I don't feel old enough to be a part of history.
Perhaps we could all find a moment today to remember the 900+ servicemen that lost their lives fighting for the freedom of these islands.
Irish
Lest we forget.
my cousin told me a funny story, well it was funny to him,, he was stationed there for 6months (Air Force) and most interesting thing was watching the penguins fall over when the aircraft flew over head during tests.
sorry to go of in a tangent.
 | Irish-Le-Feaux [Member] 2007-04-02 @ 18:33 |
This happened when the Chinhook helicopters went over them. In army slang they are called Wokka-wokkas because of the noise they make. They attracted the attention of the penguins and they would just watch them go overhead lose their balance and fall over. I saw this myself at a place called Bertha's beach, and it was very very funny.
 | Usksider pro http://www.usksider.co.uk 2007-04-02 @ 18:38 |
I lost a couple of good friends in the South Atlantic; I'll never forget what it was all about and I'm not saying I disagreed with sending the task force, but there was one heck of a butcher's bill for so small a cause...
| Irish-Le-Feaux [Member] 2007-04-02 @ 19:05 |
Heavy loss in a short conflict but that was the nature of the fighting I am afraid.
250 of ours, 600+ of the Argies and 3 islanders lost their lives.
I fully supported this war at the time and still do. This was the first time since the channel isles in the 1940s that British people had been invaded. hey "Desired The Right" to be British and we gave them their desire.
| Usksider pro http://www.usksider.co.uk 2007-04-02 @ 19:13 |
Indeed. I was all for kicking the so-and-so's back out and would have been happy to do my bit (I was back in civvy street when this lot went off). The cost really was pretty phenomenal though.
 | Vort1gern [Member] 2007-04-03 @ 10:03 |
Aside from some two-faced snivelling from Blair (who's busy butchering troops in another conflict), all I've seen to mark the occasion is some shameless self-publicity from Carol Thatcher, who ought to get back to the celebrity reality shows and the glittering career of DFS sofa commercials such an enterprise leads to.
Some of us do remember, and not just on the official anniversaries, either.
All the best,
-V-
| Irish-Le-Feaux [Member] 2007-04-04 @ 08:27 |
Gud on yer V. Blair and his government do not thave the moral aptitude to understand that although this was fought by a government of a different shade it still deserves commemorating.
| Vort1gern [Member] 2007-04-04 @ 09:26 |
Indeed. What no-one seems to remember is that if the Falklanders started "disappearing" at the rate that Argentinian citizens were under the Galtieri death squads, the place would have been completely deserted in a fortnight.
Please if you are really interested in argentine history do not repeat the "official, easy to remember, not much to think about, tale" theres not such thing like Galtieries Death Squads and the posibility of a "Kelper Armaggedon" is a sad joke rather than a true hipotesis. Please, again, argentine history is a little more complicated, not everything can be resumed with a cartoon dictator character.
| Vort1gern [Member] 2008-01-10 @ 10:21 |
One of my University tutors was a left-wing Argentine liberal, who fled the country before the police rounded him up and gave him a taste of their own special TLC.
I'm sure the story is, as you say, more complicated. But please don't imply this never happened - he was a man of integrity and even the stigma of living and finding work in the UK during the Falklands conflict wasn't enough for him to go back there.
2007-04-02 @ 15:41