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<font color="#E5E5E5">this is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Stanley the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Bulldog for</font> compensation<font color="#E5E5E5"> being instructed by the</font> government<font color="#CCCCCC"> of Falkland Islands to call</font> you and ask you to<font color="#E5E5E5"> repeat the message</font> for<font color="#CCCCCC"> am</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> April the second 1982 Argentine</font> Navy cameraman filmed their invasion<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> the for cover <font color="#E5E5E5">frogmen landed first from a submarine</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">followed later by</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the main assault</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> force</font> [Applause] it was an historic<font color="#CCCCCC"> day for Argentina</font> por supuesto<font color="#CCCCCC"> Rome</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Argentina magenta muy</font> emocionado<font color="#CCCCCC"> atomic I was thrilled as an</font> Argentine and as a professional soldier <font color="#E5E5E5">I was thrilled to be taking part in the</font> recover of these<font color="#E5E5E5"> islands</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that have been</font> in British hands for so long it made me very proud<font color="#CCCCCC"> as you know listen</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Falklands forecasting</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">studios now we're just</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> gonna</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> call from</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Alistair grieve and Alistair I</font> understand that you've<font color="#CCCCCC"> cited some of the</font> vehicles where are you giving<font color="#E5E5E5"> this</font> report<font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Mali are</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you standing up</font> sitting down or what you're doing now all<font color="#E5E5E5"> right the situation</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> might</font> hear is<font color="#CCCCCC"> that the radio station has now</font> been taken over we have three arts and <font color="#CCCCCC">toilet women we have</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> everything</font> recording to tape yes<font color="#E5E5E5"> okay for the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">population</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and just a minute</font> yeah we don't know if you take<font color="#E5E5E5"> the gun</font> into my<font color="#E5E5E5"> back I'm gonna press right here</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">if you take the gun away but I'm</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not</font> speaking<font color="#CCCCCC"> with a gun in my back</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> everybody</font> was very very<font color="#E5E5E5"> low in spirit obviously we</font> didn't know<font color="#CCCCCC"> whether we were going to be</font> shot or what was<font color="#E5E5E5"> going to happen</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> take</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">them back</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to Argentina everybody knew of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the regime over there the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> military</font> government what<font color="#CCCCCC"> they've done to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> their</font> own<font color="#CCCCCC"> people</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I knew they wanted the</font> Falklands and future well we didn't we didn't know<font color="#E5E5E5"> our</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> future</font> by 7:00 a.m.<font color="#E5E5E5"> after fierce fighting</font> government<font color="#E5E5E5"> house was completely</font> surrounded<font color="#E5E5E5"> in like I said oh no</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I'm with</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">prosing I captured two Royal Marines in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">a government house they were waiting</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there lying on the ground with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all their</font> weapons<font color="#CCCCCC"> Trojan</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> marine it that I saw</font> another marine trying to reach <font color="#E5E5E5">government house</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so I covered him with</font> my machine gun<font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> made him come towards</font> me me me<font color="#CCCCCC"> today</font> yeah<font color="#E5E5E5"> well all</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> along Saturday</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on this</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Estela</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> suddenly you're</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in their hands I</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">mean it's three casualties of theirs</font> long in the guard in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the government</font> house I mean what sort<font color="#CCCCCC"> of mood they</font> going to be in you know<font color="#E5E5E5"> when</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they're</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">opposed sort of shot up and so when</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">actually</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lied down oh yeah start</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> big</font> humiliated<font color="#E5E5E5"> but I was felt also felt</font> apprehensive about what<font color="#E5E5E5"> was going to</font> happen next<font color="#E5E5E5"> but one of the Argentine</font> officers he came along and yeah<font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font> struck one of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the guards</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I'm told us to</font> stand there and<font color="#CCCCCC"> we stood up and yeah</font> well I shut my hand shook a few of the guys<font color="#E5E5E5"> hands and said that you know</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">shouldn't lie down and we should</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> be</font> proud<font color="#E5E5E5"> of what we've done</font> I was<font color="#CCCCCC"> quite</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> pleased that she was</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">stopping</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you know I mean I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> bounced</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> about</font> it you know I didn't wanna sort of<font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> didn't fancy<font color="#E5E5E5"> saw her getting shot</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> bits <font color="#CCCCCC">later angel fundamental in a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> phantom of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">devahuti</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the Royal Marines lacks our motivation I</font> think the reason<font color="#CCCCCC"> for our motivation was</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> cause we were defending yes</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> okay you</font> have<font color="#E5E5E5"> to understand we were defending</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">something that was ours they were simply</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">following orders as professional</font> soldiers<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> super military professional</font> attend defend gender a hotel or dinero que a gente de<font color="#CCCCCC"> team</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Apogee remote</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Akkad</font> a<font color="#CCCCCC"> lot a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> public event</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> en la Medina's</font> operation <font color="#E5E5E5">nazuna</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Austral</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> todo todo</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ese</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> distancia</font> que esta temporada<font color="#E5E5E5"> de maras</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> st marys</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">kiss is Moroccan Tino the Malvinas</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> are a</font> national cause in Argentina<font color="#CCCCCC"> we gate that</font> hoople's in primary school<font color="#E5E5E5"> learn about</font> their lost heritage<font color="#E5E5E5"> how the British</font> stole the islands from<font color="#E5E5E5"> them in 1833</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Murphy youngsters are shown</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that the</font> islands are part<font color="#CCCCCC"> of Argentina's</font> continental<font color="#CCCCCC"> shelf la</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> de forma golden</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">bells</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">pastel la prolongation del continent a</font> port<font color="#E5E5E5"> debajo del agua from a South</font> American perspective<font color="#E5E5E5"> Britain's claim to</font> the islands is absurd<font color="#CCCCCC"> even an unpopular</font> dictatorship would<font color="#E5E5E5"> be acclaimed if it</font> could recover<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Malvinas when news of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the invasion reached winners Aras the</font> crowds went wild the military regimes record of violent repression economic crisis<font color="#E5E5E5"> all were forgotten</font> overnight the national dream of reoccupying the Malvinas<font color="#E5E5E5"> had been</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">realized</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">nia-malika final agreements come over</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">tambien</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I can't deny that I was</font> immensely thrilled<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was thrilling to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">see the huge crowd outside government</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">house supporting our action regardless</font> of their political beliefs the workers had demonstrated against the government in<font color="#CCCCCC"> that same square</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> only a</font> few days<font color="#E5E5E5"> before but now even the trade</font> unions were there supporting<font color="#CCCCCC"> Argentina</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">stem so I can't deny that it was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> the most<font color="#CCCCCC"> moving moments of my life</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">kiss-ass</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> una vez mas emosionante</font> y mas importante y<font color="#E5E5E5"> una vida have you</font> heard from<font color="#E5E5E5"> the governor</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> doors opening</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">day</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in London there was outrage</font> the government had allowed British sovereign territory to<font color="#E5E5E5"> be invaded</font> there were rowdy scenes in<font color="#E5E5E5"> Parliament</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">swiftly followed by resignations</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it is a national</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> humiliation and I have</font> been responsible<font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> five affairs</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and I</font> do not<font color="#E5E5E5"> think it is right</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that when that</font> happens the minister<font color="#CCCCCC"> responsible should</font> just go on as if nothing<font color="#CCCCCC"> had happened</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> think of the honorable</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> thing to do</font> is to resign<font color="#E5E5E5"> Britain's prestige was</font> severely damaged<font color="#CCCCCC"> the government turned</font> to the Armed Forces I think everybody thought it would all <font color="#E5E5E5">be over before we got there few little</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">troops on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Leyland when the senior</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the Royal</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Navy comment it scurry home</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">neither</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be all</font> [Music] <font color="#E5E5E5">I thought why the hell did he want to</font> invade somewhere that<font color="#CCCCCC"> would sober</font> Scotland<font color="#CCCCCC"> one because nobody understood</font> where the Falklands<font color="#CCCCCC"> we're night</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and I</font> haven't got a clue [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I've always<font color="#E5E5E5"> said</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> years ago to preserver</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> war very excited I'm coming back the</font> Belfast<font color="#E5E5E5"> where I was going</font> you know they're not<font color="#CCCCCC"> get me to war now I</font> didn't join for war<font color="#CCCCCC"> I didn't want to go</font> because<font color="#E5E5E5"> I thought well I've got to go</font> you<font color="#E5E5E5"> know</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> tax payers within my wages for</font> all<font color="#E5E5E5"> these</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> years</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and okay</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they've called</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my number for one so</font> called all our<font color="#E5E5E5"> numbers for once</font> as the task force<font color="#CCCCCC"> team south through</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> tropics<font color="#E5E5E5"> few of those on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> board</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> thought</font> they were actually<font color="#E5E5E5"> going</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to war</font> [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] <font color="#E5E5E5">in his matter all this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it was really</font> thrilled<font color="#E5E5E5"> he said social</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> life is</font> fantastic<font color="#CCCCCC"> you know we're</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> playing darts</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and there's loads of people</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Carly cribbage games as lots of debt</font> games going on<font color="#CCCCCC"> I need any one of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">letters</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and whatever's waiting</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for us</font> down there nothing will look so bad<font color="#E5E5E5"> if we've still</font> got this happy and atmosphere on board ship [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it was a<font color="#E5E5E5"> curious air of unreality on the</font> way to ascension<font color="#E5E5E5"> none</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of us really</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">thought it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> would come to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> war at that</font> stage<font color="#CCCCCC"> every day we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> listen to the BBC</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">World Service about the diplomatic</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">maneuvers that were going on and we</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">genuinely believed there would</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be a</font> diplomatic settlement<font color="#E5E5E5"> and they were we</font> were merely<font color="#CCCCCC"> in an extension of that</font> diplomacy<font color="#E5E5E5"> we had to learn Spanish</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">virtually</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the only</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> stuff that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we did</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">learn was things like</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mana Cerebus</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Lindsey which</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> means hands up and</font> surrender<font color="#E5E5E5"> we didn't</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> think it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was much</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">point</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> learning's sort of I'd surrender</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">or anything like</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that many of them had</font> adopted<font color="#E5E5E5"> rather</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> litter and gung-ho</font> attitude<font color="#CCCCCC"> one of the helicopter pilots</font> told<font color="#E5E5E5"> me that he'd never dropped a real</font> depth charge on a live target<font color="#E5E5E5"> and he was</font> quite looking forward to it<font color="#E5E5E5"> now</font> and one<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> harrier pilots said that</font> what Britain<font color="#E5E5E5"> needed was a small wall</font> like<font color="#E5E5E5"> this who would do where I'll no end</font> of good [Music] [Applause] the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Falklands became an armed camp</font> in<font color="#E5E5E5"> their thousands young conscript</font> arrived from Argentina la primera vez<font color="#CCCCCC"> congressional</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> al pueblo</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">de aqui todo lo que habia the first time</font> I went<font color="#E5E5E5"> into Ponce earlier</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I noticed that</font> everything<font color="#E5E5E5"> with English there was</font> practically nothing there to remind me <font color="#CCCCCC">of Argentina I remember picking up a</font> little<font color="#E5E5E5"> nail and it had this made in</font> England<font color="#E5E5E5"> written on it</font> Claro<font color="#E5E5E5"> Clarita this year</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Valon Inga</font> so I started wondering what it all meant <font color="#CCCCCC">I thought</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> where am I what is this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I had</font> been told that<font color="#E5E5E5"> we were going</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to the</font> Malvinas<font color="#CCCCCC"> to defend our people but it</font> turned out that they want our<font color="#E5E5E5"> people at</font> all so you had to ask yourself who<font color="#E5E5E5"> would</font> be invaders<font color="#E5E5E5"> them or us</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Kyrenia Malvinas</font> operation<font color="#CCCCCC"> theater command communique</font> number<font color="#CCCCCC"> four</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> guarantees the continuity of</font> the way of life<font color="#CCCCCC"> or the people of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> island<font color="#E5E5E5"> respected for private property</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">freedom to enter leave or remain on the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">island</font> furthermore the population is exhorted <font color="#CCCCCC">to continue normally</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with their</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">activities one of the first things they</font> said when they arrived<font color="#E5E5E5"> nothing would</font> change<font color="#CCCCCC"> and the next thing they said was</font> how things<font color="#E5E5E5"> had to change we had to drive</font> on the other<font color="#CCCCCC"> side</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the road we had to</font> have passes to go around Stanley<font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> won't<font color="#E5E5E5"> let ed if Stanley</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and people of</font> course<font color="#CCCCCC"> thought</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> back to the Second World</font> War and how it must have felt<font color="#E5E5E5"> for the</font> French<font color="#E5E5E5"> and the Dutch and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the countries</font> you know in Europe<font color="#E5E5E5"> occupied by the</font> Germans<font color="#CCCCCC"> from Grenada below but I mean it</font> our military<font color="#E5E5E5"> prisons grew till about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ten</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">thousand men surrounded the village so</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">port Argentina became</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> almost like a tiny</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">island in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a sea of troops yet I'm proud</font> to say that<font color="#E5E5E5"> throughout</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> our occupation of</font> the Malvinas <font color="#CCCCCC">it wasn't a single</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> case of rape or</font> attempted rape<font color="#E5E5E5"> there wasn't a single</font> case of<font color="#E5E5E5"> assault</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there were a few burglaries any</font> offenders were court-martialed and sentence whether they were conscripts <font color="#CCCCCC">NCOs or officers dientes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ashiya-kun</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">officials</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> official</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Soldado</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and has next</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> door it's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> unoccupied</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and it was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> very UK we had the care that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">has we realize or a lot of Argentinians</font> banging on the door knocking my husband said<font color="#E5E5E5"> well</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and let them break the door down</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> our</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">grass and give them the key he was</font> immediately<font color="#E5E5E5"> taken by the Argentinians</font> and made to kneel at our front gate<font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font> a bitterly<font color="#E5E5E5"> cold</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> day</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Sunday afternoon for</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">about 20 minutes</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> over</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 20 minutes he was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">kneeling there in his shirtsleeves with</font> a submachine gun<font color="#E5E5E5"> of his back</font> I never realized just<font color="#E5E5E5"> what it was like</font> when<font color="#CCCCCC"> you can't sit down I tried</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to sit</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">down I couldn't I was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so tensed up other</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">solos</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> all I did really was walked to the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">kitchen made a cup of coffee</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and came</font> back<font color="#CCCCCC"> I didn't know that in 20</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> minutes</font> half now one could drink so many cups of <font color="#E5E5E5">coffee</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I've put on Land of Hope and</font> Glory and<font color="#E5E5E5"> opened the windows and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I felt</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that no my</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> husband's sense of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> humor that</font> if he were<font color="#E5E5E5"> to die the tip the last thing</font> he heard<font color="#CCCCCC"> was that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at least he would die</font> with<font color="#E5E5E5"> perhaps a smile on his face</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> United<font color="#E5E5E5"> States was anxious</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to avoid</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> war</font> between<font color="#E5E5E5"> two of its closest allies the</font> whole conflict seemed to be strange<font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> seems to<font color="#E5E5E5"> be much</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> less important than it</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">obviously seemed to both sides</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> because</font> the Falkland Islands<font color="#E5E5E5"> by themselves did</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">not seem to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be objectively that</font> important if I may say so to anyone<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> yet suddenly they had become the focus of this enormous intense conflict <font color="#E5E5E5">Alexander Haig desperately sought</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> negotiated settlement<font color="#E5E5E5"> on born his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> P</font> shuttle was<font color="#CCCCCC"> David comfort of course the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">most memorable recollection one has</font> about London was mrs. Thatcher herself <font color="#CCCCCC">and the way</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> she presided over the War</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Cabinet and spoke for Britain</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in the</font> negotiations<font color="#E5E5E5"> she would allow others to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">speak to address particular aspects of</font> it based on their expertise<font color="#E5E5E5"> but in all</font> cases she would have the final<font color="#E5E5E5"> word</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> in some cases<font color="#E5E5E5"> she would explicitly</font> overrule a senior member<font color="#CCCCCC"> of her</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> cabinet</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">she was never in any doubt</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that may have</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">been those of us who would one moment or</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">other thought should we just give a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">little bit more</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> would it finally and the</font> problems which we hadn't yet faced<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> actually invading from ships<font color="#E5E5E5"> in South</font> County<font color="#E5E5E5"> but she was totally resolute in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">London and we did not find a very</font> positive disposition<font color="#E5E5E5"> toward negotiation</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the view there</font> quite simply was<font color="#E5E5E5"> foreign troops have</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">occupied land over which Her Majesty's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Government is responsible and the issue</font> at hand<font color="#CCCCCC"> is the removal of the troops not</font> the negotiation of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the conditions after</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">those troops are gone</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> about</font> all we received by way of<font color="#CCCCCC"> encouragement</font> in London [Music] [Music] the stormy waters of the South Atlantic <font color="#CCCCCC">brought with them a change</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in the</font> atmosphere<font color="#CCCCCC"> on board the ships of the</font> task for the<font color="#CCCCCC"> closer they</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> got to the</font> islands<font color="#E5E5E5"> the greater the need for</font> military<font color="#E5E5E5"> preparedness the Royal Marines</font> who defended<font color="#E5E5E5"> the islands in the original</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Argentine invasion had been deported to</font> Britain<font color="#E5E5E5"> by their captors now they were</font> returning as part of the task force we were a little<font color="#E5E5E5"> bit of a celebrity state</font> as you<font color="#CCCCCC"> know with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the other Marines you</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">know</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it's sort of it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was it lighting</font> I've been on the fire<font color="#CCCCCC"> and it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like sort</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of doing this than the other and you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all</font> sort<font color="#E5E5E5"> of swept along with you the old</font> thing about you know we're going<font color="#E5E5E5"> to go</font> down there<font color="#E5E5E5"> and sort of dig these</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> lawton</font> as you got nearer the old<font color="#E5E5E5"> for Queen and</font> country and<font color="#E5E5E5"> all that was going</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> out the</font> window<font color="#E5E5E5"> you know and it was more of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> let's</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">get down there</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> do it and let's get back</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">you know</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">yeah you don't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> have to go down and do it</font> great I was quite convinced<font color="#CCCCCC"> we were going to</font> fight<font color="#E5E5E5"> I've got far too much imagination</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to be brave or gung-ho anything like</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> my company</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> commander John Key's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Lee</font> was<font color="#CCCCCC"> in many ways</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the same opinion as</font> me I remember once<font color="#E5E5E5"> talking</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to him and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">just had a photograph taken</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> over</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hold of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">a company which was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> left flank and we</font> looked at afterwards<font color="#E5E5E5"> and he said</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to me</font> well it's rather<font color="#E5E5E5"> sad but some of those</font> faces<font color="#CCCCCC"> won't be there if we take a</font> photograph<font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the way back I thought</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">about it for some time and I decided</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">write my wife a letter and explain to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">her how much I loved her</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my feelings</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font> her things<font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> she could remember</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me by</font> a piece<font color="#E5E5E5"> of music</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a place</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to go I gave</font> her some advice<font color="#E5E5E5"> as to how to behave as a</font> widow as I remember<font color="#E5E5E5"> and it was difficult</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">for me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to write the more difficult</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> one</font> was to<font color="#E5E5E5"> run to write to my son and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">don't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> think like even</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> now I hadn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font> haven't reread<font color="#CCCCCC"> it but it was certainly</font> blotted with<font color="#E5E5E5"> tears having written and</font> then it was the hardest thing<font color="#E5E5E5"> I've ever</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">done in my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> life I then posted him to my</font> father<font color="#E5E5E5"> I'd asked then asked him to pass</font> them on in the<font color="#CCCCCC"> event of my</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> death</font> arriving in<font color="#E5E5E5"> when azari's the peace</font> shuttle met a series of<font color="#E5E5E5"> setbacks</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his</font> clear deny that the task will not<font color="#CCCCCC"> be</font> easy but the stakes are<font color="#CCCCCC"> so great that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> demand<font color="#E5E5E5"> the ultimate effort on the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> part</font> of<font color="#CCCCCC"> participants in these discussions</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">thank you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the mood on the streets</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font> jubilant the hunter promised the Malvinas would never be surrendered Argentina<font color="#E5E5E5"> would</font> never give<font color="#E5E5E5"> up its birthright</font> there was about<font color="#E5E5E5"> their attitude the kind</font> of frivolousness first of all as though they were not<font color="#E5E5E5"> really serious</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as though</font> they did<font color="#CCCCCC"> not have a sense of what war</font> would be like they had no<font color="#E5E5E5"> sense of the</font> tragedy<font color="#E5E5E5"> of war and and the loss of life</font> they had no sense<font color="#E5E5E5"> that they were going</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to be defeated</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as I pointed out to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> them</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">surely they were going to be defeated</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they had no</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> experience of war they would</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">be fighting one of the world's great</font> powers<font color="#E5E5E5"> which Britain is and they</font> couldn't<font color="#CCCCCC"> even treat the matter fully</font> seriously they couldn't decide among themselves and it was clear by then that they had decided<font color="#E5E5E5"> in fact to go ahead if</font> for no other reason than<font color="#CCCCCC"> that they</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> were</font> incapable of uniting in a decision not <font color="#E5E5E5">to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> go ahead to war</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it was our failure</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> grasp that<font color="#E5E5E5"> agreement</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> our failure to make</font> it stick<font color="#E5E5E5"> in Buenos Aires that in fact</font> had<font color="#E5E5E5"> removed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the last</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hurdle</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> permitted<font color="#E5E5E5"> the forces to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> engage and the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and the killing to begin</font> [Music] I do it [Music] [Music] made the first<font color="#CCCCCC"> Briton launches an</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">airstrike against Argentine positions</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">around</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for stem</font> we're woken by a<font color="#CCCCCC"> friend</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> saying they're</font> here they hear they hear the British are here<font color="#CCCCCC"> I was so elated I would turn our</font> front<font color="#CCCCCC"> window and jumped up and down and</font> as I turned<font color="#E5E5E5"> round I realized that the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Argentinians</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> have been shin gun nest</font> just<font color="#E5E5E5"> a few yards away</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> from our heads</font> were pointing a gun at me <font color="#E5E5E5">and indicating that unless I got down</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and we're going to shoot me so needless</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to say I very quickly</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> got out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the</font> window we were probably<font color="#E5E5E5"> far more overconfident</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and we should have been and I think</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> general<font color="#CCCCCC"> feeling was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that well we've</font> given the Argentinians a bloody nose<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">very soon they'll turn around</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and say</font> that's<font color="#CCCCCC"> if we don't anymore</font> and everything will be<font color="#CCCCCC"> over</font> [Music] [Music] Argentina<font color="#E5E5E5"> was not defenseless against</font> the task force<font color="#CCCCCC"> it too had a powerful</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">navy which set out to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> find the British</font> fleet and sink it<font color="#E5E5E5"> there were new</font> warships<font color="#E5E5E5"> equipped with modern missiles</font> but proudest of all was<font color="#E5E5E5"> the world war</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 2</font> cruiser USS Phoenix<font color="#E5E5E5"> now renamed after</font> one<font color="#CCCCCC"> of Argentina's greatest heroes</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">General Belgrano evil alien serving on</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Belgrano</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was the goal</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of every</font> professional sailor<font color="#E5E5E5"> because of her</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">tradition</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and because of what she</font> represented<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Argentine Navy the</font> nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror<font color="#E5E5E5"> had been</font> patrolling the South Atlantic<font color="#E5E5E5"> for a</font> fortnight<font color="#E5E5E5"> it shattered the Belgrano</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for</font> two days<font color="#CCCCCC"> just right ahead on that very</font> 94 at<font color="#E5E5E5"> 4:00 p.m.</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on the 2nd of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> May under</font> direct orders from London<font color="#E5E5E5"> it fired three</font> torpedoes at the<font color="#E5E5E5"> cruiser</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to stockholm</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">supreme air explosion few realmente la</font> que causó la mejor cantidad de<font color="#CCCCCC"> muertos</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">NL</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> bouquet a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> first explosion was the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">cause of the greatest number</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of deaths</font> on<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Belgrano about 275 sailors died</font> as a result of<font color="#E5E5E5"> that explosion and the</font> massive flooding<font color="#CCCCCC"> they</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> followed four</font> seconds later came the second torpedo <font color="#CCCCCC">fifteen feet from the valley but those</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">15 feet practically disappeared on the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">water all the crew</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> members assembled</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> by</font> their life rafts<font color="#E5E5E5"> waiting</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for the order</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to abandon ship prácticamente para que</font> el agua<font color="#CCCCCC"> tamil official the ordinary</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">heaven God I finally decided to give</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that order s and surely it must be the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">most painful</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and tragic order in a naval</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">officer's career debe ser la más</font> importante<font color="#CCCCCC"> llama tragically</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> toda so</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">vexed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> oreal Marinero</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">una se siente facilitate Odin</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> over</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Wendy</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">no</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Padre Sur de gente en de</font> we knew there were more people below decks and there was nothing they could do to rescue<font color="#E5E5E5"> them no we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> would have</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> cried</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but it was just impossible all we could</font> do was cry<font color="#E5E5E5"> and collect the wounded from</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> main deck and take them</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to the life</font> rafts<font color="#E5E5E5"> most of them have</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> been burned by</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the explosions and the fires we knew</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that we were</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> leaving behind</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lots of our</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">friends they were below decks hoping</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that we could</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> somehow rescue them we</font> just couldn't get<font color="#CCCCCC"> to them I couldn't</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">bear it leaving them behind I can</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> click</font> on<font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the severe kala hotel and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Fuko</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">leaders</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is that truce amigos</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fatal</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">one</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> then there was nothing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> could do</font> driven<font color="#CCCCCC"> by strong winds towards the</font> Antarctic Ocean<font color="#CCCCCC"> the life rafts from</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> Belgrano<font color="#E5E5E5"> drifted in sub-zero</font> temperatures after<font color="#E5E5E5"> two days some were recovered by</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the hospital ship by a Paraiso</font> many of the Belgrano sailors had died of exposure<font color="#E5E5E5"> they had literally frozen to</font> death <font color="#CCCCCC">venya sobre el paseo de la belleza</font> save<font color="#E5E5E5"> a que en un último intento de sel</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">visualize oddly</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> regain reversible</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> i</font> remember we cited one life raft<font color="#E5E5E5"> and it</font> had somebody<font color="#E5E5E5"> on top of it who</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> seemed to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">be asleep he was so well wrapped up that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">all you could see was his face he had</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">this survival suit and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his life jacket</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">he was well prepared</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at a distance he</font> seemed to be sleeping peacefully with his<font color="#E5E5E5"> hands folded under his face</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> like the</font> guy<font color="#E5E5E5"> he had</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> obviously climbed on top of</font> the life raft<font color="#E5E5E5"> looking for rescue ships</font> when we brought him aboard<font color="#CCCCCC"> we found out</font> that he was dead compromise<font color="#CCCCCC"> que vea</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">fuzzy see</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you that young officer was</font> lieutenant<font color="#CCCCCC"> Jurado sevilla dueling</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Jamaa</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">telephony calling me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> homage or</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> maybe</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">hostess</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> occasion</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that night my other son</font> called<font color="#E5E5E5"> and they asked me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> whether</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I've</font> been listening to<font color="#CCCCCC"> the radio</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I said no I'd</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> watching the television</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it had been listening</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to some</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ridiculous</font> stories on a foreign<font color="#CCCCCC"> radio station but</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">he didn't say</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> anything else so I went to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">bed when early the next morning I</font> switched on<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> radio and the first</font> thing I hear<font color="#CCCCCC"> is at the Del Grande</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> has</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">been attacked</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Casey you do</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> oh dear</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> honest Bombardier</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Oh reconsider here del</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> gran</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> oh come on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font> rushed to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the phone to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> call my son my</font> sister<font color="#E5E5E5"> and it turned out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that I had</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> been</font> up<font color="#E5E5E5"> all night listening to the news that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">was the start</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of my longer my Long</font> Knives<font color="#CCCCCC"> valeriano</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> de</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> la la researches</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">lunes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> nobody's here</font> the next day non news on Tuesday<font color="#E5E5E5"> nothing</font> that afternoon<font color="#CCCCCC"> the parish priest at the</font> church<font color="#E5E5E5"> just across the road from my home</font> said a<font color="#E5E5E5"> special Mass or my neighbors</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> relatives came to pray for<font color="#E5E5E5"> my son safe</font> return<font color="#E5E5E5"> but it was not to be</font> no question<font color="#CCCCCC"> de Grasse</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Araminta prophecy</font> so we are<font color="#E5E5E5"> go to it was just a boy he was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">six foot five keep</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> him in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> your</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> memory so</font> happy so healthy listen<font color="#CCCCCC"> fellas uh</font> Sonny's<font color="#E5E5E5"> oh well you wouldn't like to see</font> me crying like<font color="#E5E5E5"> this a bit</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in the</font> Basilica does the widow see with the moment commander<font color="#E5E5E5"> speaking today we've</font> had a large measure<font color="#E5E5E5"> of success the belt</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Rada</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Argentinian</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Cruiser has been</font> torpedoed<font color="#E5E5E5"> the south of the Falkland</font> Islands by one of our<font color="#E5E5E5"> SFM any euphoria</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">following the sinking of an enemy vessel</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was short-lived Argentine Navy pilots</font> were determined to<font color="#E5E5E5"> hit back</font> [Music] [Music] they took off from airfields<font color="#E5E5E5"> in southern</font> Argentina<font color="#CCCCCC"> the crook'd with exercise</font> missiles<font color="#E5E5E5"> and went in search</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of revenge</font> [Music] <font color="#CCCCCC">hms sheffield was on the lookout for</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">enemy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> aircraft</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> well forward of the main</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">british feet slide arrow one</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> public</font> target<font color="#E5E5E5"> zero one zero one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> zero four</font> factories off this sea was<font color="#E5E5E5"> very calm we</font> were looking out<font color="#E5E5E5"> to sea and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> i thought</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> it looked</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> like a torpedo was on its</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">way because the sea</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> wished</font> shimmering<font color="#E5E5E5"> and shaking if you like and</font> so<font color="#CCCCCC"> i said i thought there's a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> torpedo</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the pilot also</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had trained his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> glasses</font> around<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the same spot</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he said no</font> it's an exercise he<font color="#CCCCCC"> austere watch</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> other<font color="#E5E5E5"> members of the bridge crew started</font> to take cover<font color="#E5E5E5"> but i remember myself in</font> the second<font color="#E5E5E5"> officer watch becoming</font> transfixed<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> than the miss islands way</font> in which really does amaze me now on i come to think that we watched it almost <font color="#E5E5E5">to the point of impact</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> when we quickly</font> huddled together and<font color="#CCCCCC"> dropped to the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">floor</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">you</font> [Music] <font color="#E5E5E5">San</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Carlos the place chosen</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for the</font> British landings the Special Boat squadron had been watching<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> area in</font> secret for weeks they were amazed<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> find it only<font color="#E5E5E5"> lightly defended in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> feeding</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">candy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> olive we couldn't possibly defend</font> every single spot where the British forces might have<font color="#E5E5E5"> chosen to land we</font> didn't have enough<font color="#CCCCCC"> resources</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we had to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">defend the main target it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> taught</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Argentina we need that of course the</font> Argentinians<font color="#E5E5E5"> are trained by the</font> Americans or<font color="#CCCCCC"> infant's by the Americans</font> and<font color="#CCCCCC"> believed that we were also they</font> therefore thought if they were<font color="#E5E5E5"> doing it</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they would</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> land understand it and they</font> assumed that<font color="#CCCCCC"> because we had American</font> influence we would land<font color="#E5E5E5"> estates to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> send</font> it we didn't do it<font color="#E5E5E5"> that way and quite</font> about anything else it would<font color="#E5E5E5"> have caused</font> terrible and typically unforgivable<font color="#E5E5E5"> casualties to</font> civilians<font color="#E5E5E5"> and it's just not the British</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">way of doing things we prefer a more</font> subtle approach to to these<font color="#E5E5E5"> matters</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> shoo</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">whoa</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> super toaster Vittorio</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">yeah say</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> via des</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> picado empo collab</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">rumah</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a no solamente estaba no cierto</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> i</font> went up to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> observation</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> post</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and the</font> mist was lifting<font color="#CCCCCC"> i could clearly</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> see</font> several frigates<font color="#E5E5E5"> and transport ships and</font> there were<font color="#CCCCCC"> dozens of helicopters flying</font> about<font color="#CCCCCC"> a landing craft</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> coming towards us</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">said Tara no fear Mayday</font> realmente<font color="#E5E5E5"> airing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> picante</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and let me tell</font> you it was<font color="#E5E5E5"> quite a sight</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I had never</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">seen such a fleet deployed in front of</font> me<font color="#E5E5E5"> there were</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 5,000</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> troops about to land</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and there I was with my</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 40 men when we</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">hit the beach</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in my particular boat</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> ramp went<font color="#E5E5E5"> down and a naval order which</font> is<font color="#CCCCCC"> part of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> their drills I suppose went</font> out as troops out and not<font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> soul moved</font> in the boat because<font color="#CCCCCC"> of course when you</font> move a paratrooper collectively don't <font color="#CCCCCC">shit shout out who shout and go and this</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">raw</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> marine</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> shouted again trumps out</font> nothing<font color="#E5E5E5"> happened</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and then a quick witted</font> some major<font color="#E5E5E5"> shouted go</font> I have already flooded<font color="#CCCCCC"> off the boat the</font> actual landing<font color="#E5E5E5"> was a bit farcical in the</font> sense that we<font color="#CCCCCC"> all thought they're</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> going</font> to war<font color="#E5E5E5"> but there was no opposition so</font> you had five six<font color="#CCCCCC"> hundred</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> screaming</font> paratroopers coming off a landing craft <font color="#E5E5E5">onto a beach never having done</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that sort</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of thing before</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was so used</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to going</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to war or</font> exercise by parachute that chaos reigned for some<font color="#CCCCCC"> little time</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> where companies had</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> regroup</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and go after</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> their own</font> individual<font color="#CCCCCC"> tasks so if the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> landing had</font> been opposed<font color="#CCCCCC"> I think we'd have been in a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">little bit of trouble in the early</font> stages as his troops came ashore <font color="#E5E5E5">brigadier Julian Thompson feared</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> an air</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">attack on the ships at anchor in San</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Carlos</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he tried</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to alert London to the</font> danger<font color="#E5E5E5"> without success</font> I was<font color="#E5E5E5"> very conscious of the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fact that I</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> responsible for the lives of a large</font> number<font color="#E5E5E5"> of men</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I sent a letter in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> which I</font> said<font color="#E5E5E5"> we will of course carry out the</font> landings that's what we've been<font color="#CCCCCC"> told to</font> do but you should know that if we are <font color="#CCCCCC">attacked by</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the air and the enemy are</font> successful in their attack we<font color="#E5E5E5"> will take</font> very<font color="#CCCCCC"> very heavy casualties indeed</font> politicians must<font color="#E5E5E5"> never show military</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">advisers</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that they are fearful of too</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">many characters</font> if you do that you will put caution on the<font color="#E5E5E5"> commander's right down the way when</font> caution come they may not<font color="#CCCCCC"> get the right</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">answer</font> [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] people you're<font color="#E5E5E5"> a fast jet pilot</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you've got to be</font> good<font color="#CCCCCC"> or you're dead I think it's a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">matter which country you come from</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">because they've got have</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> bloody good</font> reactions and got to be good<font color="#CCCCCC"> and the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Argentinian</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you imagine</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> with holidays</font> with racing drivers polo<font color="#CCCCCC"> players and</font> what better sort of chat to have sitting <font color="#CCCCCC">in a fighter xi diamond</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> draw you know</font> the world a drain that<font color="#E5E5E5"> beers</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I said my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">altimeter thirty feet but I must have</font> gone<font color="#E5E5E5"> lower than that because the alarm</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">went off several times we were flying</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at</font> 450 knots and at that sort of height well it's quite a peculiar experience <font color="#E5E5E5">yeah I saw the mast of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the figured up</font> ahead<font color="#E5E5E5"> and we lined up for the attack so</font> if they<font color="#CCCCCC"> are</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not better in attacking they</font> knew what are you doing they knew how<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> attack the ship they all lined up one after the other<font color="#E5E5E5"> and came up</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> turn at</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> time the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> captain ordered full speed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we tried to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> maneuver in there 20</font> millimetres to bear but it seemed whichever way captain<font color="#E5E5E5"> turned the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ship</font> there's an aircraft lined up on<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> stern<font color="#E5E5E5"> need to come in it will get our</font> direction<font color="#E5E5E5"> under him</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> okay area</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">incremental</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so velocidad and maximally</font> the ship was reacting well<font color="#CCCCCC"> I could see</font> that it was<font color="#E5E5E5"> moving at top speed make him</font> for the open waters in the middle of the channel trying to maneuver away<font color="#E5E5E5"> from us</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">when you have unions he may atella by</font> this time the ship was directly<font color="#E5E5E5"> below me</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">so I banked over here</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> drop the bombs and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the scale I certainly felt that the</font> skipper below me knew what he was doing <font color="#CCCCCC">it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a copy as I flew away I heard my</font> wingman say well done sir<font color="#CCCCCC"> which meant</font> that at least one of<font color="#CCCCCC"> my bombs had hit</font> target<font color="#E5E5E5"> Jamie numeral</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> que decía</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> muy bien</font> Senora<font color="#E5E5E5"> assume indica lucky day me home</font> bus<font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> won below</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> him the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> pilot</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Crabtree just went very silent as we</font> came down<font color="#E5E5E5"> over the hill and flew through</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> smoke and in the back we couldn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">see what</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was happening and we could</font> smell the fire smoke and<font color="#E5E5E5"> then we came</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the hover off the port quarter and</font> looked at and it's a<font color="#CCCCCC"> sight I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> shall never</font> forget<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fires of hell burning in that</font> ship<font color="#CCCCCC"> she was a tanker</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the gun pointing</font> straight up<font color="#CCCCCC"> to the sky all the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hydraulic</font> power gone<font color="#CCCCCC"> the flight deck</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> just smashed</font> in<font color="#E5E5E5"> and opened up with a can opener</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> remember waking up<font color="#E5E5E5"> again the dining hall</font> was<font color="#CCCCCC"> pitch black</font> I could see that<font color="#E5E5E5"> my hand was injured but</font> all we had<font color="#CCCCCC"> 95</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> level like I just see a</font> mess and<font color="#E5E5E5"> ice of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> bloods around the hand</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and there's no pain no feeling at all</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">ie</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> football league</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and so so</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> finger pick</font> on these days my problem at a quick feel over the<font color="#CCCCCC"> wrist my</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> body and I had a large</font> piece of form a like a sticking<font color="#E5E5E5"> up the</font> top<font color="#E5E5E5"> of my head here I pulled out two</font> away<font color="#CCCCCC"> I then tried to get up and I was</font> only<font color="#E5E5E5"> unable to I could get up on all</font> fours<font color="#E5E5E5"> but I was unable to crawl out from</font> whatever<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that was stopping</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me</font> moving dreadful<font color="#CCCCCC"> feeling dreadful and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">think about getting help in getting out</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I thought a little</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> cheated in the fact</font> that I'd survived this<font color="#CCCCCC"> far</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">you pray and I could hear somebody</font> moving<font color="#E5E5E5"> around in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> debris and he</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> came</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">up to me and said</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> oh I'm</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> eight right and</font> I think<font color="#E5E5E5"> you know okay</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> get this thing off</font> my back I couldn't even see<font color="#CCCCCC"> the man sir dark</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that is something or what I was thinking</font> about<font color="#E5E5E5"> those days</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my at that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> time my wife</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was five months pregnant at the time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> her</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">first child and I wanted</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to get home</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but</font> like<font color="#E5E5E5"> I'm a bike like a miracle</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> am</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> ship must have<font color="#CCCCCC"> slid around but we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> got a</font> breath of sweet tasting air and the hole in the side I still just caught<font color="#CCCCCC"> up so</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Aaron</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it was did and took a large long</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">fold and we started moving back into</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> ship <font color="#CCCCCC">I sent them</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> all off and then</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ISIL stood</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the bridge on my own people</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">getting all my men off by then and I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Yarmuth I put her Stern on to our bow</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">because we were</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sinking about this time</font> and I<font color="#E5E5E5"> finally walked</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> by them</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and stepped</font> on and it was<font color="#E5E5E5"> very sad and as we moved</font> away<font color="#CCCCCC"> from her I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> never lost</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my chaps were</font> in tears<font color="#CCCCCC"> we yes I was yes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they look</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">beyond me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> horn bus not do this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> yeah when</font> I've on the ship<font color="#E5E5E5"> I'm not trying to kill</font> anybody<font color="#CCCCCC"> I certainly wasn't trying to</font> kill the ardent<font color="#E5E5E5"> crew</font> what I'm trying to do is to put the ship out of<font color="#E5E5E5"> action even though hopefully</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">without causing any casualties that's</font> how I felt throughout the war because and<font color="#E5E5E5"> that's how all my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> colleagues felt</font> clearly of<font color="#CCCCCC"> those hours</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to put it out</font> I<font color="#CCCCCC"> gotta come with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when captain West well</font> I tell him<font color="#E5E5E5"> that I regret sinking his</font> ship<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I'm</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sorry that some of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his men</font> had to die but I was<font color="#E5E5E5"> doing my job</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> just</font> as he was<font color="#E5E5E5"> doing his meter así como el</font> estado con<font color="#E5E5E5"> primo</font> [Music] [Music] we were called by<font color="#CCCCCC"> a team at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Minerva</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">contact</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Northwest 40 miles all we saw</font> was one<font color="#CCCCCC"> vicara</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that was flown by chat or</font> major<font color="#CCCCCC"> tomba my first</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> run-in I shot at</font> him<font color="#CCCCCC"> and shot half his left aileron off</font> and said his right engine on<font color="#CCCCCC"> fire</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so I</font> was hitting<font color="#CCCCCC"> alright pulled away and</font> thought he would go<font color="#CCCCCC"> to the ground not a</font> bit of it<font color="#CCCCCC"> there's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a momento me ro ll ER</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I'm Aryan avail I look to my wing and</font> saw a gaping hole<font color="#E5E5E5"> it looked a bit like a</font> rose<font color="#E5E5E5"> with open petals sooner Ra's al</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Ghul of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> pitiless</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a weirdo military</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> then</font> I saw the<font color="#E5E5E5"> two Harriers flying over me my</font> plane was shaking<font color="#CCCCCC"> but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it was still</font> flyable<font color="#CCCCCC"> so I flew on trying to get</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> away</font> pero se lo<font color="#CCCCCC"> commandos action Alan vomit</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">or a functional</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ambien this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> time I came</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in slow</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> put my flaps down to bring my</font> nose down<font color="#E5E5E5"> so I've been aimed more easily</font> noticing<font color="#E5E5E5"> the height in my head up</font> display<font color="#CCCCCC"> I carefully</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but tracking nice</font> and smoothly and fired a long burst into him<font color="#E5E5E5"> set the port engine on fire</font> knock bits off the<font color="#CCCCCC"> rear fuselage and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">canopy shattered EC</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and dot ODS off I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> go</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they see that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I veered and I felt</font> another<font color="#E5E5E5"> burst hitting my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> crew so large</font> the plane was still shaking and then an engine with a fire I could<font color="#CCCCCC"> see I was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">beginning to lose control the fire</font> started spreading and<font color="#E5E5E5"> then suddenly I</font> completely lost<font color="#E5E5E5"> it I had to eject</font> I feel very near the plane we've<font color="#E5E5E5"> got</font> about 40 or 50<font color="#E5E5E5"> meters away</font> Madhavi on he<font color="#E5E5E5"> gave up lady</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> gum</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in the</font> wounds<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I thought well what a</font> character<font color="#CCCCCC"> I mean</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> should</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> have got</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> out</font> off<font color="#CCCCCC"> the first pass he stayed with it</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">until they just wouldn't fly</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> got out</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">just before</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it hit</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the ground and</font> apparently walked back to Goose Green<font color="#CCCCCC"> he</font> was captured<font color="#E5E5E5"> later and I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> had</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> nothing</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">about the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> highest respect for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> him</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I mean</font> that was real bravery I<font color="#E5E5E5"> called the ops room after having shot</font> him<font color="#E5E5E5"> down and said more trade that means</font> anything else for<font color="#E5E5E5"> us to do and the</font> fellow said wait<font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> said what do</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you mean</font> wait he said lecture we<font color="#CCCCCC"> just had our options</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">draft</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we'd gunfire 30-millimeter</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> can</font> the man across<font color="#CCCCCC"> the desk room he has lost</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> top of his head and I've been hit</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> arm</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and I'm just collecting myself</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and I felt awful</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I said</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> okay sorry about</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> within</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> seven</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> seconds he was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> back</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">online</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> saying right we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> think we've got</font> trade for you up to the north [Music] <font color="#CCCCCC">Argentina's pilots sustained heavy</font> losses only a few survived being shot down <font color="#E5E5E5">person I meant a pencil again I won with</font> a<font color="#E5E5E5"> side Allah</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I really thought they were</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">going to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> throw me overboard because well</font> I suppose<font color="#CCCCCC"> that when he</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> just been</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">captured there you can't be a bit</font> paranoid they were taking<font color="#E5E5E5"> off my</font> survival suit<font color="#E5E5E5"> I'm pointing at me with</font> this rifle but I also<font color="#CCCCCC"> have this great sense of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">relief after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I was alive</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I wrap the blanket</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> rounding let's get em</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">away on to this one</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">then I look down and I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> noticed that my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">left leg</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was at a strange angle</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it was</font> dislocated<font color="#CCCCCC"> I was in terrible</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> pain</font> so they injected me<font color="#CCCCCC"> with more female</font> painted an M on my<font color="#E5E5E5"> forehead</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he has</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> got a</font> complete<font color="#CCCCCC"> for and our justification</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">his left knee</font> probably rupturing some of his thigh muscle he had a<font color="#CCCCCC"> dislocated left kneecap</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">patella bone</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> which I have reduced the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">dislocation</font> we've now wrapped him up he's got<font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font> nasty<font color="#E5E5E5"> lot of bleeding around the joint</font> as<font color="#E5E5E5"> he an antenna a pin so</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he can be done</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">wholly tambien they took me to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hospital</font> and this doctor told me<font color="#E5E5E5"> here you are</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">just another patient</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> DeLeon</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and the</font> truth is that's<font color="#E5E5E5"> exactly</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> how I felt</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from</font> there not with<font color="#E5E5E5"> you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of course I was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font> British hands<font color="#E5E5E5"> but I was never really</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">treated like a prisoner</font> I was<font color="#E5E5E5"> just another patient</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they don't</font> know it<font color="#CCCCCC"> but at that although</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> many</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Argentine planes were</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> shot down</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the task</font> force<font color="#E5E5E5"> remained vulnerable to air</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> attack</font> on<font color="#E5E5E5"> May the 25th Atlantic conveyor was</font> hit by<font color="#CCCCCC"> Nexus at missile when we drove up</font> there was a chaplain<font color="#CCCCCC"> for merchant</font> seaman's mission in Manchester and <font color="#CCCCCC">passes Claire</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> adult you know waiting</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">for us on the road and I saw his little</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">blue badge his lapel and you also must</font> get on something's wrong so he said can <font color="#E5E5E5">I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> speak to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in the house place for</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">suggestion also I said the children go</font> in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> kitchen please and sent them</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> away</font> in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> kitchen</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he took me in and out he</font> said I'm afraid<font color="#E5E5E5"> of some bad news for you</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I said just how bad he said</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I'm afraid</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the very worst</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and then I couldn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">get</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> rid of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the man I just wanted him to</font> go<font color="#E5E5E5"> he says chill make another a strong</font> cup of tea I<font color="#CCCCCC"> can remember that and they</font> came and kept saying<font color="#E5E5E5"> what so much I said</font> quiet I'll see you later<font color="#E5E5E5"> and then he</font> went<font color="#E5E5E5"> and then of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> course I told the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">children</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">digital</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I just said that the ship had</font> been<font color="#E5E5E5"> hit the dad had been killed and</font> they sent<font color="#CCCCCC"> me a but you look at map</font> saying Frank folks<font color="#CCCCCC"> spiders</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> see on</font> Wednesday<font color="#E5E5E5"> the 26th of May I got a</font> plastic bag<font color="#CCCCCC"> analysis type his wristwatch</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">you st. Christopher is where they drink</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">very upset about and taking this readily</font> enough because it it worried me was very very tight he'd never taken<font color="#E5E5E5"> it off and I</font> worried how they'd got it off his fingers huh and he always used<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> wear a</font> cap<font color="#E5E5E5"> down below because he didn't just</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">write your oil in his hair and his cap</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was in this plastic bag</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but they're all</font> wet<font color="#CCCCCC"> still as it come out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the sea</font> British<font color="#E5E5E5"> forces</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> digging in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at San</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Carlos</font> were held up<font color="#E5E5E5"> by the loss of vital</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">equipment</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on the Atlantic conveyor but</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Julien Thompson was under pressure from</font> London to get<font color="#E5E5E5"> on with the war at the</font> time<font color="#CCCCCC"> it was clear to me that back in</font> England there was a political need for a victory<font color="#E5E5E5"> so that we could be seen</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to be</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">doing something seemed to be winning</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> think there were many<font color="#E5E5E5"> others who were</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">worried initially that having got a</font> beachhead at San Carlos<font color="#CCCCCC"> we were going to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">get stuck there</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and not be able to break</font> out<font color="#CCCCCC"> of it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> because everybody has memories</font> there were memories<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the time we took</font> to break out of the<font color="#E5E5E5"> beachhead in</font> Normandy and in terms of the<font color="#E5E5E5"> whole of</font> the Falklands<font color="#E5E5E5"> wasn't the big area but</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">just it was stuck in a very small</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> area</font> and confined there would have had all sorts of troubles<font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> every way not least</font> on<font color="#E5E5E5"> the diplomatic front</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> because if we</font> didn't get a move on all the<font color="#E5E5E5"> proposals for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ceasefires</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> would</font> become stronger<font color="#E5E5E5"> and cease</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fires which</font> would have conditions which would not have<font color="#CCCCCC"> been beneficial from</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our point of</font> view<font color="#E5E5E5"> all those risks</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a breakout was</font> very important there you are quite happy <font color="#E5E5E5">or</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they'll in mind if you like dying for</font> your<font color="#E5E5E5"> Queen and country</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> certainly</font> don't contemplate dying for<font color="#E5E5E5"> politicians</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I was summoned often to the radio</font> telephone to speak with the<font color="#E5E5E5"> superior</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">cause in Northwood and on one particular</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">occasion</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I can remember after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> particularly irritating turf and <font color="#CCCCCC">colonization</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> walking out of the tent and</font> saying to<font color="#E5E5E5"> myself in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on somewhat of a</font> temper<font color="#CCCCCC"> I shall</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> win</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the war for these</font> buggers and<font color="#CCCCCC"> then I shall go</font> on direct<font color="#CCCCCC"> orders from London the second</font> parachute battalion<font color="#E5E5E5"> launched an attack</font> on the Argentine stronghold at<font color="#CCCCCC"> Goose</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Green it's dark there's an enormous</font> mountain<font color="#CCCCCC"> noise</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there's incoming fire to</font> you<font color="#E5E5E5"> there's white</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> phosphorous going off</font> to provide smoke<font color="#E5E5E5"> and illumination</font> there's tracer<font color="#E5E5E5"> coming towards you and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">going to get away from you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there's fear</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">running through you you close up towards</font> the trenches<font color="#CCCCCC"> you throw grenades you fire</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">your weapon you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> burn it</font> it's<font color="#E5E5E5"> savage gutter fighting everything</font> you've ever experienced before<font color="#E5E5E5"> is</font> nothing like<font color="#E5E5E5"> it it is basic killing in</font> command of<font color="#CCCCCC"> two</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> para was Lieutenant</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Colonel H Jones H Jones of the warrior</font> it wasn't a peacetime<font color="#E5E5E5"> soldier he was</font> single-minded he was aggressive<font color="#E5E5E5"> he was</font> determined charismatic leader<font color="#E5E5E5"> everybody</font> knew that<font color="#E5E5E5"> he was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in charge</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the co got on</font> the radio<font color="#E5E5E5"> to a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> company</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and told him to</font> get a<font color="#E5E5E5"> grip and speed up and continue the</font> movement which they couldn't so<font color="#CCCCCC"> he said</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> having any of this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and decided to go</font> up and join a<font color="#CCCCCC"> con to say he</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> got a little</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">bit pear-shaped would be slight</font> understatement<font color="#CCCCCC"> when he made up his mind</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that a thing was going to be done then</font> it was going<font color="#E5E5E5"> to be done you don't</font> actually get time<font color="#E5E5E5"> to think if the CEO</font> says you do something then<font color="#CCCCCC"> you do it you</font> might think<font color="#E5E5E5"> daddy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fool afterwards</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">ordering it but you get out and do it</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> co said</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we join a company and</font> we're going over<font color="#E5E5E5"> the top so we joined a</font> company<font color="#E5E5E5"> and we went over</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the top want to</font> actually<font color="#E5E5E5"> got down there then we're in a</font> slightly better<font color="#E5E5E5"> position but when I got</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there guns the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> co he didn't stop he kept</font> running so I thought here we go and all of<font color="#CCCCCC"> a sudden</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> somebody behind me</font> shouted<font color="#E5E5E5"> out watch out there's a trench</font> on the left<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I shall return to watch</font> his<font color="#CCCCCC"> back because I could</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> see what was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">going</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> happen and he ignored me or</font> didn't hear me I would think he actually ignored me and charged<font color="#E5E5E5"> up the hill to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">neutralize the trench that I was firing</font> out as he got<font color="#CCCCCC"> to within six or</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> seven</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">feet</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of that trench</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> actually got shot</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from the trenches behind you know that</font> you could<font color="#E5E5E5"> actually see and I saw the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">rounds striking the ground behind him</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">coming up gradually getting towards him</font> and actually<font color="#E5E5E5"> shot him in the back</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and the impact of the rounds hit him</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">actually pushed him right on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> top of the</font> trench<font color="#E5E5E5"> that he was going for the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Sigma's</font> in his headquarters<font color="#E5E5E5"> had prepared a</font> phrase<font color="#CCCCCC"> sunrays done so that we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> would</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> had</font> I would know that<font color="#E5E5E5"> something was wrong</font> with<font color="#CCCCCC"> him which would</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be the key for me</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to step in to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the breach and in this</font> confusion<font color="#E5E5E5"> over the radio came this cry</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">sunray is done I couldn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> believe it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> I actually<font color="#CCCCCC"> answer verification</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and cars</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">are</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Blackburn</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his Sigma shot it again</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sunray is down for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> chrissake and then</font> the surge of apprehension<font color="#E5E5E5"> and fear and</font> would I perform well<font color="#CCCCCC"> enough what do</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I do</font> now what's the<font color="#CCCCCC"> situation up there ran</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">through me you know slightly numb in the</font> fact that<font color="#CCCCCC"> you're SEOs aren't supposed to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">die and the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> actual implication</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the</font> commanding officer taking on an enemy <font color="#CCCCCC">position frontal was sort of comic book</font> stuff that you read about<font color="#E5E5E5"> and you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> don't</font> really think<font color="#CCCCCC"> that it should happen I</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">turned him over because he was lying on</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his back got his webbing off and</font> actually<font color="#E5E5E5"> found the wound</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">stage he was still conscious</font> although slipping into unconsciousness so I stayed there trying to<font color="#E5E5E5"> keep him</font> warm<font color="#E5E5E5"> with extra wind proofs and his own</font> quoted jacket and unfortunately some time later he died<font color="#CCCCCC"> a tenant Colonel Joe</font> captain good captain day less than <font color="#CCCCCC">inspiring</font> [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] next to the prisoner<font color="#E5E5E5"> of war Cade</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">sheep pens was actually a pile of</font> ammunition<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had to be moved and we</font> had a rough idea that it was booby-trapped<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> RCI's antennas</font> officers<font color="#E5E5E5"> if they</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> would move the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">ammunition</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for their own safety</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so a</font> detailed officer meant to actually help move the ammunition<font color="#E5E5E5"> which was artery</font> shells and mortar ammunition and they're moving<font color="#CCCCCC"> it and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> all of a sudden</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> there was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">a bang and there was a booby trap there</font> and the soldier involved right<font color="#E5E5E5"> next to</font> the booby trap was actually in a vacuum <font color="#E5E5E5">flames and explosives and the only thing</font> that could<font color="#E5E5E5"> be actually done</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for the</font> soldier because we couldn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> get to him</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> actually</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he was shot to take him out</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">of his misery</font> because there was<font color="#E5E5E5"> nothing humanly else</font> to be done for him<font color="#CCCCCC"> and then I actually</font> thought I'm lucky it was an eerie sort of silence<font color="#E5E5E5"> pitch dark freezing and then</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> mind just ran riot and I felt tears</font> trickling down the<font color="#E5E5E5"> siding</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> face</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> where</font> when I thought about good blokes actually died that day<font color="#E5E5E5"> and the fact that</font> more were likely to<font color="#E5E5E5"> die tomorrow here</font> and there lump came in the throat<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font> lay there<font color="#CCCCCC"> for a good couple of hours</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">actually</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> going</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> through the events of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> day in readiness for<font color="#CCCCCC"> the advance on</font> Stanley<font color="#E5E5E5"> reinforcements were brought in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to San Carlos to avoid a long march the</font> Welsh Guards were moved<font color="#E5E5E5"> aboard the ship</font> Sir Galahad<font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sets sail for a place</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">called bluffco</font> due to bad<font color="#CCCCCC"> weather</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Sir Galahad was</font> diverted away from bluff Cove into a small Inlet called<font color="#E5E5E5"> Fitzroy major</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> UN</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">south</font> Taylor was horrified by the<font color="#CCCCCC"> ships</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">arrival crammed full of troops</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in broad</font> daylight<font color="#CCCCCC"> it was in grave danger of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Argentine</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> air attack he wanted the men</font> moved urgently<font color="#CCCCCC"> off the ship to the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">safety</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the shore just 200</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> yards away</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> I put it to the senior officer they</font> could find on<font color="#E5E5E5"> his turn of of the gun</font> ahead that my considered<font color="#CCCCCC"> in professional</font> opinion as<font color="#CCCCCC"> a land court officer and</font> somebody involved<font color="#E5E5E5"> in a previous warfare</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">foot or missile my career was that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">should get off first and then</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> wait he</font> was adamant that bluff Cove was his destination and<font color="#E5E5E5"> not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fitzroy i was</font> equally adamant that<font color="#CCCCCC"> i was not going to</font> take him to<font color="#E5E5E5"> bluff</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> cocaine anything in</font> daylight and I was of course tragically proved correct<font color="#E5E5E5"> and if you are say to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">another my craft for sunk I pointed out</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it was any two hundred</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> yards away</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> would take maybe<font color="#E5E5E5"> only</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 20 minutes to get</font> all<font color="#E5E5E5"> his men off he said he wouldn't put</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his men in in a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mixed layers of</font> ammunition<font color="#CCCCCC"> but we heard</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from citrus trim</font> but we had the<font color="#CCCCCC"> baits</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> alongside to take</font> them in off<font color="#CCCCCC"> I explained to him</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">is war</font> we didn't operate<font color="#CCCCCC"> to peacetime</font> restrictions during<font color="#E5E5E5"> war and that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the men</font> were in<font color="#E5E5E5"> grave danger</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> think that</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> probably the most serious</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> most</font> often<font color="#E5E5E5"> made point that I put across and</font> eventually<font color="#E5E5E5"> in a fit of extreme anger I</font> told him<font color="#CCCCCC"> that he was behaving extremely</font> responsibly<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that I would not be held</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">responsible for what</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> happened to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his men</font> and<font color="#CCCCCC"> a poor country clear three or four</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">hours eight and I approved at some</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">correct</font> [Music] [Music] there's<font color="#CCCCCC"> parties screaming shouting I</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">wish everyone</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> big favor</font> there's no way the flames to escape <font color="#CCCCCC">rebounded</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and come back and caught the</font> most of my back<font color="#CCCCCC"> I legs not sure I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">actually caught fire and as always</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">coming trying to get out I fell</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> over</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font> saw demands [Music] it was read<font color="#CCCCCC"> out the deck</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as if the metal</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">had been in a foraging a blacksmith</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">- it was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a as if I was seeing</font> double<font color="#E5E5E5"> there was a hand and the ripples</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> skin of the am should actually come</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">off to the top here</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and it was like a</font> glove<font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> top and it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was flapping about</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in both hands when I came round I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> don't</font> know how<font color="#E5E5E5"> long I couldn't been out that</font> long anyway<font color="#CCCCCC"> so all I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> could feel was a</font> burning<font color="#CCCCCC"> sensation on the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lower part my</font> left leg so I didn't<font color="#CCCCCC"> think nothing of it</font> so I also<font color="#E5E5E5"> mostly tied to stand up not</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">thinking</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> missing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of it and I remember</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">looking at my left hand because</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">what I was more worried</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> about because it</font> melted and when I stood up<font color="#CCCCCC"> my leg had</font> gone<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> just little bits left of it</font> [Music] <font color="#E5E5E5">as I was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> looking out you see other</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">people</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> injured probably your mates</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">whatever but you couldn't recognize</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> them</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">because</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the blackness of the face</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">head</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> burns it's gone all black and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they</font> started bubbling and<font color="#CCCCCC"> sort of scabbing</font> scabbing up and it<font color="#CCCCCC"> smelt</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> awful I was</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">bleeding from the head but there was</font> nothing<font color="#E5E5E5"> desperately wrong with me and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I knew where the door was and I started</font> thinking about<font color="#E5E5E5"> getting myself out and I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">tried to get up onto my knees and the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">thickness of the smoke which was layered</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">stopped me breathing straightaway</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so I</font> had to go back<font color="#CCCCCC"> down</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> onto the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> floor</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">unfortunately I was in somebody else's</font> remains and at that time but<font color="#E5E5E5"> I I felt it</font> I couldn't see it<font color="#E5E5E5"> so I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> just I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> started</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">making my way towards</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the exit</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> which I</font> where knew it was and a<font color="#CCCCCC"> chat from the</font> back of the room<font color="#CCCCCC"> very</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> very muffled</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">because</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the smoke and the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> darkness he</font> started<font color="#CCCCCC"> screaming that he'd lost his leg</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was the the biggest deciding</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">point in my life whether</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> or not always</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">going to go and help</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> him</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> will get out</font> nobody would have ever<font color="#CCCCCC"> known because it</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> just him and me left alive in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> room and I decided I wanted<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be a hero</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">so I went back</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> him and we were</font> calling through to each other through <font color="#E5E5E5">the darkness and I was still desperately</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">trying to talk my talk myself into</font> turning around<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> making my way to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> exit anyway I found Kevin Woodford by accident and I must have trodden<font color="#E5E5E5"> on the</font> stump of<font color="#CCCCCC"> his leg because</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> next</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> thing</font> I know a fist came out of the darkness and clobber me<font color="#E5E5E5"> one and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> kevin</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was very</font> very obviously hysterical<font color="#CCCCCC"> I couldn't</font> find<font color="#E5E5E5"> my morphine or his morphine</font> everything was confused<font color="#CCCCCC"> for me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and we</font> carried the morphine run our<font color="#E5E5E5"> next it's</font> called on<font color="#E5E5E5"> the pond</font> and he was a big man<font color="#CCCCCC"> and the only</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> thing</font> I could<font color="#CCCCCC"> do was to put</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my arms underneath</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his arms</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and start dragging him along</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the floor in the direction of where I</font> knew<font color="#E5E5E5"> the exit was well all the armchairs</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and said he had turned into barricades</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and as he was so heavy and I couldn't</font> lift him and<font color="#CCCCCC"> I couldn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> breathe as well</font> because this<font color="#CCCCCC"> mug I was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> having to</font> bulldoze my way through the barricades <font color="#CCCCCC">and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I very quickly lost all my strength</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and I was just losing control completely</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I got in about</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> three-quarters of way</font> down the room when I was bred to<font color="#E5E5E5"> him</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that I had to leave him</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I was going to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">go get help</font> [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] but now a<font color="#E5E5E5"> couple hundred I was in the</font> stretcher<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I was supporting my left</font> leg in the air<font color="#E5E5E5"> and obviously it was a</font> lot<font color="#E5E5E5"> of bits hanging off it so I suppose</font> it look very phonetic when<font color="#CCCCCC"> they actually</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">got me off</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the helicopter</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I looked</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> down</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there was a film crew there and they</font> seemed<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> jump at</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> me so I was a bit</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">annoyed at</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I've been aware that I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">swore at the motto does the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> old-school</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">way</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> or whatever and there</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> were</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">filming me probably</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> because it seemed</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the state</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on my leg casualties were</font> airlifted to the<font color="#E5E5E5"> British hospital ship</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Uganda Chris</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> white</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> suffering from shock</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and convinced he'd left a man below</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">decks</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to die tried</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to take his own life</font> and I noticed that they hadn't taken my <font color="#CCCCCC">aamna</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> pon my morphine ampulla off of me</font> which was<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> fixed my dog tags around</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my</font> neck and so I basted the morphine to myself<font color="#E5E5E5"> into my chest</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> aiming</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for the</font> heart<font color="#CCCCCC"> and I just</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lived my shirt over to</font> one side<font color="#E5E5E5"> punched it in but obviously the</font> needle wasn't deep enough<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I was</font> spaced out for one a little<font color="#E5E5E5"> while</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> after</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that the Padre came down he'd heard</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">about this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> particular person who kept on</font> trying to do these silly things<font color="#CCCCCC"> and he'd</font> also been talking<font color="#E5E5E5"> to a young man up in</font> intensive care<font color="#E5E5E5"> who had had his leg</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> taken</font> off by the action on the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Galahad and he put</font> two and two<font color="#E5E5E5"> together and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he came down</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and took me to Kevin Woodford and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font> could I couldn't<font color="#CCCCCC"> recognize Kevin because</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">as I said</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> when I first met him it was in</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> dark we took one look at each other</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">first</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> inches and that was it</font> it's a<font color="#CCCCCC"> less incredible feeling all the</font> burns victims were<font color="#CCCCCC"> treated together in a</font> converted<font color="#E5E5E5"> officers mess on board Uganda</font> it was also sort of stench of burning <font color="#E5E5E5">not and quite close by to this to the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">mat there</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was a very tiny galley but</font> it's not like<font color="#E5E5E5"> fun</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> with burnt toast and</font> when you just sort of open<font color="#E5E5E5"> a door and</font> there was about 40<font color="#CCCCCC"> pairs of black</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> spaces</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and it it was a feeling of Apollo as</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">better than we just want us off</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> covert</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">open and turn lane line and then we</font> thought<font color="#CCCCCC"> God - the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hardest hire you have</font> on your face [Music] and you just walked in and<font color="#E5E5E5"> trying to</font> smile and and get on with<font color="#E5E5E5"> your</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> job</font> [Music] <font color="#CCCCCC">and had</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> very little hair</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> no eyelashes no</font> eyebrows<font color="#E5E5E5"> their hands at that time</font> they've been<font color="#E5E5E5"> put into what</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> call</font> calamity<font color="#E5E5E5"> and bag which</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a bag that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> go</font> over<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hand</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a special cream that they</font> use for very bad<font color="#E5E5E5"> burned</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we just wanted</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> go back to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> your room</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and cry your</font> eyes out because<font color="#E5E5E5"> he's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> found so</font> definitely find his paper <font color="#E5E5E5">I could have got those men off in 20</font> minutes no question of that<font color="#E5E5E5"> box</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> over</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and anybody</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">within a professional</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sense would have</font> taken<font color="#E5E5E5"> the advice of the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on-the-spot</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">expert regardless of rank but</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">unfortunately I was not wearing the rank</font> of<font color="#CCCCCC"> Lieutenant Colonel who as</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> far</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as I</font> can<font color="#E5E5E5"> make out was the only man who's</font> prepared to listen<font color="#E5E5E5"> to him and I think</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">probably in my career</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that was the most</font> angry<font color="#CCCCCC"> I have ever been</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> although I was</font> not directly<font color="#E5E5E5"> involved it was certainly</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> only time in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my career</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that I felt</font> almost shame at being involved in something<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> has gone wrong and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">although I blame myself partly for not</font> insisting with even more vigor<font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> men were<font color="#E5E5E5"> brought ashore</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I feel that I am</font> not actually<font color="#CCCCCC"> to blame for the deaths</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> his name and it gets with me<font color="#CCCCCC"> even</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after</font> six<font color="#CCCCCC"> figures the distance from San Carlos</font> to Stanley is 60 miles British troops had<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> walk the whole way this yump was</font> carried out in<font color="#E5E5E5"> extremely harsh</font> conditions<font color="#E5E5E5"> freezing temperatures snow</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and driving rain fresh water</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you can get</font> so obviously you know<font color="#E5E5E5"> you take what you</font> can you know at the ground and<font color="#CCCCCC"> um we</font> would<font color="#E5E5E5"> sort of stamp</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> onto the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> peat or dig</font> holes until<font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> got a puddle it was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> also</font> sod on the ground and<font color="#E5E5E5"> scooting water in</font> a mug<font color="#CCCCCC"> and put</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> some sterilized and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">tablets in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Nice water was absolutely</font> black<font color="#E5E5E5"> but I mean you drank it no matter</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">how many sperry tubs you you sterilized</font> and tablets<font color="#CCCCCC"> just going</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to end up taking</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">out on ya now myself pussy on it I never</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">had any underpants on and by the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> time</font> you've<font color="#CCCCCC"> got to Stanley and there's quite</font> a<font color="#CCCCCC"> few guys I had because um you know</font> having<font color="#E5E5E5"> the shit one of those in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> our tree</font> I just underneath<font color="#E5E5E5"> it and just</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> cut</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">through his underpants and just toss</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">them away and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> just carried on walking I</font> mean there's nothing<font color="#E5E5E5"> else he could do I</font> mean<font color="#CCCCCC"> lead the dot</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he just said you know</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">then thing you can do because</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you're</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">losing body fluid</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is to just drink lots</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of water</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of course we're drinking that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> crap again</font> as the British<font color="#E5E5E5"> troops closed in the</font> Argentine conscripts<font color="#E5E5E5"> could only wait dug</font> in on the mountains around Stanley<font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> prepared for<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> final battles it's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">conversaciones</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> innocent emotion in those</font> last days<font color="#E5E5E5"> we talked about was how</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> many</font> would die<font color="#CCCCCC"> five ten twenty we felt this</font> impotence<font color="#CCCCCC"> but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I'm waiting for death and</font> there was nothing<font color="#E5E5E5"> we could do about it</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">so you look back at what you've done</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font> your<font color="#CCCCCC"> life but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we were 19</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so there's not</font> much<font color="#E5E5E5"> we could have done really if I ever</font> heard<font color="#E5E5E5"> it for the British - there was an</font> anxious<font color="#E5E5E5"> wait</font> troops had to<font color="#E5E5E5"> sit it out until the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> order</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to attack was given nothing happened and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the tension was pretty sort of electric</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and we were all moving an extended line</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and still nothing happened and we were</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">just waiting and after a while you know</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">people you will</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> also feel</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> almost a sense</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> relief</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> people</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> will be anything well</font> they've they've bugged out they're<font color="#CCCCCC"> not</font> here anymore <font color="#E5E5E5">and just as we were beginning to feel</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> it was suddenly literally the</font> horizon<font color="#CCCCCC"> just lit up in complete sort of</font> sea of white flashes [Music] that<font color="#CCCCCC"> initial</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> firefight was quite</font> incredible<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was like being at</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> wrong end<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the machine gun range and</font> the noise was incredible<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I think</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font> were fairly stunned for it for a minute or<font color="#CCCCCC"> two and you really had the feeling</font> that if you raised<font color="#E5E5E5"> your hand you know</font> each slightly in the air it would<font color="#E5E5E5"> be</font> shot off<font color="#E5E5E5"> you guys will</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> know another</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">really big or adversity is only one</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">delayed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the grenade</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> exploded near us and</font> lifted the soldier up in yet<font color="#E5E5E5"> there was</font> shouting<font color="#E5E5E5"> screaming and explosions and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">bullets flying</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> complete chaos</font> anyway he stood up<font color="#CCCCCC"> and shouted</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I'm hit</font> im hit that lady arrow mediator<font color="#E5E5E5"> he was</font> swearing<font color="#E5E5E5"> and screaming at the top of his</font> voice<font color="#CCCCCC"> but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he could still</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> walk he turned</font> to me and said here take my rifle he handed over examination to another soldier<font color="#E5E5E5"> and then he started shouting I'm</font> leaving I'm leaving <font color="#CCCCCC">I suppose he meant it was over for him</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that he'd had enough this was all</font> happening with the British troops<font color="#CCCCCC"> right</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in front of us very close by it was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">so</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> crazy it's hard to explain now</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> see</font> people say football<font color="#CCCCCC"> at that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> anyway he</font> started walking<font color="#CCCCCC"> away and they threw a</font> phosphorus grenade at him<font color="#E5E5E5"> before and he</font> actually<font color="#CCCCCC"> could fire and he</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> started</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">screaming he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was like a human torch</font> but what really<font color="#E5E5E5"> bothered us was that he</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">was lighting</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> up a position so</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that the</font> enemy<font color="#E5E5E5"> could see us so we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> started renting</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">him away he was at that point we didn't</font> care whether he lived or died<font color="#E5E5E5"> our</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> total</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">internal machinery salicin deposit</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">armory you know well you can always tell</font> if you're close to someone when they've been<font color="#E5E5E5"> hit because</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you hear the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> crack of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the bullet but you also hear a sort of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">horrible sort of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sort whack as the</font> bullet hits sort of solid<font color="#E5E5E5"> flesh bone and</font> it's pretty unpleasant <font color="#CCCCCC">it's extraordinary this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> phase very grim</font> and you just<font color="#E5E5E5"> even if you've never heard</font> that sort of thing before<font color="#E5E5E5"> you just</font> instinctively<font color="#E5E5E5"> know exactly what happened</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and one of my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> soldiers Vera nitesite</font> suddenly saw one of them and we heard <font color="#E5E5E5">the crack and we</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> thump as it hit the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Argentinian</font> there was a moment's<font color="#CCCCCC"> silence and it was</font> most terrible screaming<font color="#E5E5E5"> from his</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Argentinian and he was screaming for his</font> mother<font color="#CCCCCC"> and there was complete silence</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from both sides at this point and both</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> us listened to it and I'm</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sure we in</font> a way were just as horrified as the Argentinian it really was an awful noise <font color="#E5E5E5">and it went on and on and on Tamina</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Gabrielle</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you Millie Wendy you've won</font> the video<font color="#CCCCCC"> ante then I finished</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> loading</font> and when I stood up<font color="#E5E5E5"> there was a British</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">soldier right in front of me we borrow</font> other's time<font color="#CCCCCC"> they rule over</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> us and then</font> he<font color="#E5E5E5"> shot me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they shot me in the head</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I felt as though I was falling</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> backwards</font> in in slow motion<font color="#E5E5E5"> they must have thought</font> I<font color="#E5E5E5"> was dead they just let me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> there but in</font> fact the bullet hadn't hit the skull run down my<font color="#E5E5E5"> helmet</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and hit me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in the back</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> the neck<font color="#E5E5E5"> maybe whatever</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and I thought my</font> god I'm alive<font color="#CCCCCC"> I turn around</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I don't know how and started crawling</font> back on no force<font color="#CCCCCC"> bit oh I got it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I tried</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> stand up but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I couldn't</font> Sally<font color="#CCCCCC"> got viendo I reached the edge of</font> the mountain<font color="#CCCCCC"> and I remember seeing the</font> whole valley beneath me it was like a vision<font color="#E5E5E5"> of hell thank you</font> the most terrifying sight I've ever<font color="#E5E5E5"> seen</font> explosions<font color="#E5E5E5"> fires machine guns rattling</font> soldiers<font color="#E5E5E5"> yelling and screaming many</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">fellow bomb</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> before you go Amit Reza Dora</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">gritos</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Courtney I felt everything</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">spinning around when I tried to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> stand up</font> I fell down<font color="#CCCCCC"> the slope you won't know</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">buddy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> McKay</font> let me<font color="#CCCCCC"> get</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> board where</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> are they all</font> thought I was<font color="#E5E5E5"> dead</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> conscious but I</font> just couldn't<font color="#CCCCCC"> move a single muscle so</font> they rolled me<font color="#E5E5E5"> up in this blanket and</font> put me<font color="#E5E5E5"> on top of this pile of bodies no</font> serious yeah<font color="#E5E5E5"> a Lovato did it cleared it</font> away<font color="#E5E5E5"> later a sergeant came along jotting</font> down the names of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the dead soldiers he</font> was crying<font color="#CCCCCC"> he looked desperate</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> well it</font> was such complete<font color="#E5E5E5"> chaos</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and he started talking to me and I must</font> have blinked<font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Oracle me it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> does</font> suddenly<font color="#E5E5E5"> he realized that I was still</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">alive because when they tell</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you as we</font> started<font color="#CCCCCC"> going up</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the mountain and the</font> enemy<font color="#CCCCCC"> we're just melting before us we</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">just went faster and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> faster until</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we got</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> top</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and in a way we almost</font> couldn't<font color="#CCCCCC"> believe that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we'd got to the</font> top<font color="#E5E5E5"> and they're just four</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> kilometers</font> away or something<font color="#CCCCCC"> and clearly in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> view</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with Stanley</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we could see the lights</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> I think for a second or two we just<font color="#CCCCCC"> sort</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">of stood there looking at this with them</font> euphoria that<font color="#E5E5E5"> you know</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we'd done it and</font> of<font color="#CCCCCC"> course</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fatal because at that</font> moment from 200<font color="#E5E5E5"> meters away an</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Argentinian automatic weapon of some</font> sort<font color="#CCCCCC"> and several other weapons open</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> up</font> on us<font color="#E5E5E5"> and in that initial sort of burst</font> which was almost<font color="#E5E5E5"> a sort of ambush really</font> three of us were hit I saw the person in front of<font color="#E5E5E5"> me to spin rounds of a</font> pirouette<font color="#E5E5E5"> round he'd been hit in the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">head</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and the force</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> just sort of</font> literally knocked<font color="#E5E5E5"> him spinning like a</font> top and there was a crack<font color="#E5E5E5"> behind me and</font> someone<font color="#E5E5E5"> had been hit behind me and it</font> all seemed<font color="#E5E5E5"> to be in slow motion in fact</font> it was<font color="#CCCCCC"> just my brain thinking rather</font> faster but as I turned to<font color="#CCCCCC"> run into the</font> nearest cover myself<font color="#CCCCCC"> I suddenly felt</font> something like<font color="#E5E5E5"> enormous</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> love hammer</font> blows on my legs and the tracer from the rounds was like sort<font color="#E5E5E5"> of you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> know</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it's</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> scarlet rods all around me</font> and I<font color="#CCCCCC"> noticed with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my right leg</font> especially both my<font color="#E5E5E5"> legs but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> especially</font> my right<font color="#E5E5E5"> leg was very sort of um stiff</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">already</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and there was a sort of brief</font> burning sensation through through the muscle on<font color="#CCCCCC"> my right arm I put my right</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">hand down to touch my leg and two of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my</font> fingers went in up<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the knuckles and</font> at that point<font color="#E5E5E5"> that I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> realize I had</font> actually<font color="#E5E5E5"> been hit</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> stretcher-bearers found it very</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">difficult</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to get</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> into</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> us eventually they</font> did<font color="#E5E5E5"> and they started carrying us down</font> and then the<font color="#E5E5E5"> next thing I knew was that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I was lying</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a short distance</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from my</font> stretcher<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it was complete</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> silence I</font> never heard<font color="#E5E5E5"> the blast or anything</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">whether I've been knocked unconscious</font> for a short time<font color="#E5E5E5"> I don't</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> know I turned</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">round and the stretcher bearers</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">basically were in pieces</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at least one of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">them was completely blown to pieces</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> really was wretched I just couldn't</font> believe<font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> as the<font color="#E5E5E5"> British moved on towards Stanley</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Argentine dead were left scattered</font> across the<font color="#E5E5E5"> battlefield burying them was</font> a gruesome task<font color="#E5E5E5"> the first car came</font> across from he he had all of this <font color="#CCCCCC">partridge</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> face here is totally missing</font> and he had<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the chest upper chest</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">wounds have total gives dogtags out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> while I was<font color="#CCCCCC"> doing it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was talking what</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> good okay yeah right I'm</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> just</font> going to undo<font color="#CCCCCC"> his dog tags and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> right</font> yeah<font color="#E5E5E5"> ah here they come yep not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> because I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was trying to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> talk lads what I was doing</font> obviously<font color="#CCCCCC"> I was just trying</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to stop</font> myself from thinking<font color="#E5E5E5"> about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this going</font> because you know you'd find a<font color="#E5E5E5"> wallet on</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">him and a big picture in there of them</font> with their wife and<font color="#CCCCCC"> kids and I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font> looking an<font color="#CCCCCC"> awful liar you know</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> fucking</font> out you know that could<font color="#E5E5E5"> have been me</font> line there everybody<font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> came across was</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">all twisted you could see the agony you</font> know that these<font color="#E5E5E5"> guys</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are billion when</font> they died<font color="#E5E5E5"> I mean that their legs are all</font> twisted<font color="#E5E5E5"> their arms and then we found</font> down an Argentine officer he'd been into the<font color="#CCCCCC"> udder a belly wound I can't remember</font> if<font color="#CCCCCC"> Annan</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> now they call me over said</font> I'll<font color="#CCCCCC"> call over in live and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> have a look</font> at this guy<font color="#E5E5E5"> and one over and he was sort</font> of<font color="#CCCCCC"> East</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I speak to me in English</font> and he was<font color="#E5E5E5"> telling me you know that</font> eating<font color="#CCCCCC"> wives</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you know why we were</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">fighting either</font> I feel bad about the bodies<font color="#E5E5E5"> you know the</font> state of<font color="#CCCCCC"> them and everything and now the</font> way we sort<font color="#CCCCCC"> of just</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> kind of toss them</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">into a hole yeah I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they just kiss him</font> the guy<font color="#CCCCCC"> that was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> injured</font> um you know<font color="#CCCCCC"> I've wished</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Nate that he'd</font> never<font color="#E5E5E5"> spoken English like you know him I</font> he died can we stop<font color="#E5E5E5"> them</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it'd still be</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> four</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> years to cry about</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">whew a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> few dead people because obviously</font> you<font color="#CCCCCC"> can't cry then you know you got a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">job</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to do and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you do</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> I still feel even now feel them<font color="#CCCCCC"> you know</font> why I'm<font color="#E5E5E5"> crying or what</font> I'm<font color="#E5E5E5"> afraid I'll just I just</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> don't see</font> them<font color="#E5E5E5"> enemy</font> [Music] [Music] entonces<font color="#E5E5E5"> yo na</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> nak</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> toma de conciencia</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">reggae yeah we realized</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that it was</font> pointless<font color="#CCCCCC"> to carry on we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> have no more</font> cards<font color="#CCCCCC"> to play raluchi de a penis a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Vsauce our artillery was down to about</font> 10 or 12 guns<font color="#CCCCCC"> upon radio director</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we had</font> no<font color="#CCCCCC"> L</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> support not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Englishman</font> the British were just of our shows <font color="#E5E5E5">shelling us for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> our rifles also propios</font> our men were exhausted<font color="#CCCCCC"> they had fought</font> hard<font color="#E5E5E5"> and had lost much of their</font> equipment<font color="#E5E5E5"> if we carried on we would just</font> have<font color="#CCCCCC"> been wasting life that is the</font> conclusion<font color="#CCCCCC"> I reached revolution so then</font> I discussed it<font color="#CCCCCC"> with the high command</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">before accepting the British offer of a</font> ceasefire and to<font color="#CCCCCC"> start of negotiations</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">resolved via acceptance si el fuego</font> fishy<font color="#E5E5E5"> opa los ingleses amassed Raz</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> pro</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Haren la conversación</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> eco reckon dientes</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">peasant en algún waha muy grande para</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">mira</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it really hurt we have been</font> defeated<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I felt defeated</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> what really</font> stuck in<font color="#CCCCCC"> my mind was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> seeing the Union</font> Jack flying after<font color="#E5E5E5"> surrender that was</font> quite a blow I was so angry<font color="#E5E5E5"> and frustrated that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> broke down<font color="#CCCCCC"> in tears</font> I remember thinking about all I had been <font color="#E5E5E5">through the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hunger and the cold</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">loneliness the death of so</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> many of my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">friends and after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all that there</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was the</font> British flag flying over<font color="#CCCCCC"> us it was</font> unbearable [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] as I walked around the<font color="#CCCCCC"> corner and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">actually Stanley came into view I</font> thought bloody hell<font color="#E5E5E5"> was it all worth it</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it was smelly dirty</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and it just</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> wasn't</font> my idea of<font color="#E5E5E5"> what Stanley was going to be</font> the whole place was<font color="#CCCCCC"> chaotic</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with guns</font> and ammunition lying about<font color="#E5E5E5"> your dead</font> body<font color="#E5E5E5"> every other building seemed to have</font> a<font color="#CCCCCC"> red cross on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and there was the</font> smell which<font color="#CCCCCC"> is unmistakable of death</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we eventually went to the top floor of a</font> little house which we<font color="#CCCCCC"> requisitioned</font> which we shared with one<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the</font> companies<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> tu perra</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and during the</font> night we turned on one of our radios<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> BBC<font color="#E5E5E5"> World Service and we heard about the</font> surrender<font color="#E5E5E5"> from the BBC</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 8,000 miles away</font> which was<font color="#E5E5E5"> being conducted in a building</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">800 yards from where I was sitting and</font> we all felt most<font color="#E5E5E5"> enormous sense of</font> relief<font color="#E5E5E5"> and my main feeling was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that no</font> more<font color="#E5E5E5"> young</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> men were going to have to die</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it was not like winning a football match</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">run you know that it was just a normal</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sense of relief</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that it was over</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we'd</font> all go home [Applause] we<font color="#CCCCCC"> sailed in early that morning</font> everywhere we look<font color="#CCCCCC"> to the small boats</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">packed with people to cheered</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> us in and</font> it was a brilliant<font color="#E5E5E5"> feeling</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> really</font> because<font color="#E5E5E5"> you know</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it makes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it then seem</font> worthwhile [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] just upset you<font color="#CCCCCC"> you felt very bitter</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">towards the people</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that were</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> coming back</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> individuals just because they'd</font> all come back<font color="#E5E5E5"> and Frank haven't on the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">surface</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> isn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a lot of razzmatazz</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> him</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">coming in many aspects was fairly</font> subdued<font color="#CCCCCC"> as a personal experience</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">many of us there was a feeling that we</font> didn't want<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> leave the environment in</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">which</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we had spent so long on our own</font> comrades amongst our friends<font color="#E5E5E5"> people we</font> knew and going into a world which<font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font> full of<font color="#CCCCCC"> people didn't know what we'd</font> gone through who were perhaps putting <font color="#E5E5E5">the wrong connotation or what had</font> happened who perhaps reveling in the fact of victory for the wrong reason and I actually some ways<font color="#E5E5E5"> tell some of the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">luxans</font> who was down the<font color="#E5E5E5"> brow of that ship in</font> amongst<font color="#E5E5E5"> it all returning to Buenos Aires</font> conscripts found that life seemed to<font color="#E5E5E5"> go</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">on much the same as before the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> war</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Tanaka</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I will eat it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> boy as</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> human as odd</font> to us I<font color="#E5E5E5"> don't know what I remember</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font> went out to this bar<font color="#CCCCCC"> and I walked in the</font> knife Ford well this can't be<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> very</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">happy place</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> after all this being going</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I went out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to the bar and I ordered a</font> beer<font color="#E5E5E5"> when I looked around me and the</font> place is<font color="#E5E5E5"> full of happy faces everyone</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was having a good time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> celebrating as</font> though we just<font color="#CCCCCC"> won the World Cup you</font> think that<font color="#E5E5E5"> nothing had happened in</font> Argentina<font color="#CCCCCC"> no episode aired I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> can</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> enough</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">cantina nunca</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> pasinetta</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">too soon a Supra Walter and I asked</font> myself how<font color="#E5E5E5"> many fathers did I kill what</font> was the point<font color="#CCCCCC"> did I do</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> all this on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my</font> culture what's my country<font color="#CCCCCC"> are you my</font> country<font color="#CCCCCC"> get all those of you laughing</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and dancing and having a good time or we</font> suffer it's not resentment I'm not asking for any reward<font color="#E5E5E5"> all I'm saying is</font> look we risked our lives at<font color="#CCCCCC"> 19 many</font> didn't come back but we<font color="#CCCCCC"> didn't what</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> are we supposed to do</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">now vamos a ganar guessing I asked</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to go</font> down to<font color="#CCCCCC"> Southie and drive along the</font> seafront<font color="#E5E5E5"> before we finally</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> return to our</font> home as I drove along<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> front there people</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">were having their summer holidays</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> were eating their ice creams<font color="#E5E5E5"> they were</font> sitting<font color="#E5E5E5"> in their deck chairs and they</font> were<font color="#E5E5E5"> generally passing the time of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> like</font> the time<font color="#E5E5E5"> of day enjoying themselves</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> I felt as if I<font color="#CCCCCC"> wanted to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> pick them up</font> and shake them and<font color="#E5E5E5"> say look there is a</font> war<font color="#CCCCCC"> going on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> people</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> getting killed</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> somehow I felt for them that the war</font> was something that<font color="#E5E5E5"> happened at 8 o'clock</font> in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the morning</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> when they picked up their</font> newspapers or switched on the<font color="#CCCCCC"> radio or</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">at 9 o'clock at</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> night when the TV news</font> came on<font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> think going for the first sort</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> few days</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I couldn't I didn't like all</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the young</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> flag waving</font> [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] strangers would come up and<font color="#CCCCCC"> say</font> something<font color="#E5E5E5"> stupid</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> like did</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you kill</font> anybody<font color="#CCCCCC"> you know</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> or</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they'd be sloughing</font> on the back and buying<font color="#E5E5E5"> the points and</font> you'd go along<font color="#E5E5E5"> with it a bit yeah I was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">down there and all</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lot but you</font> never<font color="#E5E5E5"> really tell them what it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was like</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> just tell them</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> well basically what</font> this<font color="#CCCCCC"> is the British public D</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> now</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">know any best moment the the whole</font> affair<font color="#E5E5E5"> is one of tragedy it's a war is a</font> messy dirty<font color="#CCCCCC"> miserable business</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and we</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">should never ever allow ourselves to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> get</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">war we the British people</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are proud of</font> what has been<font color="#E5E5E5"> done proud of these heroic</font> pages in our<font color="#CCCCCC"> island story proud to be</font> here today<font color="#E5E5E5"> to salute</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the task force</font> found to be British we went to fight <font color="#E5E5E5">because they had invaded British</font> territory<font color="#E5E5E5"> it's really all a question of</font> pride I think Britain had to have that pride<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> self</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> or as a nation we</font> would have<font color="#E5E5E5"> just been what now they had</font> to do it<font color="#CCCCCC"> how</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the price and my family</font> paid<font color="#E5E5E5"> no one will ever know exactly what</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">prize</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we made</font> perhaps it was worth it<font color="#CCCCCC"> for bread</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sake</font> you
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Channel: Timeline - World History Documentaries
Views: 1,828,987
Rating: 4.704185 out of 5
Keywords: falklands war, falklands war documentary, full documentary, history documentary, channel 4 documentary, full length documentaries, the falklands war, falkland war, bbc documentary, falkland islands, the falklands war documentary, war documentary, world war ii (military conflict), falkland war documentary, war documentaries, timeline documentary, battle of britain, falkland islands war
Id: V887sYcmIAc
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Length: 101min 27sec (6087 seconds)
Published: Mon Aug 14 2017
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https://youtu.be/V887sYcmIAc?t=3391

This guy at 56:30, H Jones is the Leeroy Jenkins of the Falklands. Was the CO too.

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/EightballTV 📅︎︎ Sep 01 2018 🗫︎ replies
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