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#1 Apr 02 2007 at 2:26 PM Rating: Excellent
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I lost 2 very close friends (one on Galahad, one at Tumbledown Mountain) and a larger number of old school chums in the Falklands war.

I'm only in touch with one of the old crew, and 25 years on, they're still reconstructing his face.

Glynn, Ed - Miss you.

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These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms


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#2 Apr 02 2007 at 2:43 PM Rating: Good
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Wikipedia wrote:
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.


For anyone else that didn't know.

I suppose time doesn't heal all wounds
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#3 Apr 02 2007 at 2:47 PM Rating: Good
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My exposure to this war, seeing as how I was two at the time, came mostly in the form of feeling sorry for Opus, because if memory serves me correctly he was displaced by the conflict. Then again, some good did come of it, because otherwise I wouldn't be an almost thirty year-old man with a collection of plush penguins.
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#4 Apr 02 2007 at 2:57 PM Rating: Decent
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The most interesting work related lecture I've ever been to, was given by the guy who was in charge of the field hospital at Ajax Bay (Rick Jolly). Really fascinating fella, with a talent for story telling. his book, The Red and Green Life Machine was pretty interestin' too iirc....

I remember when war was declared, And I was just out of school. I found myself getting all 'patriotic'. So much so that I went and applied to join the Royal Marines. After 3 or 4 days of being 'interviewed' down at the Marine Base in Lympstone, I was accepted for a start in 3 months.

Luckily I realised that runnin around being shouted at (let alone being shot at) was not the life for me, and I went to work in health instead. (Prolly sumtin to do with student nurses......)


A friend of mine did go tho. He was in the airforce. He never got to set foot on the islands tho, but only 'cos his wife who was divorcing him at the time dobbed him in for possesion the weed that she had surreptisiously
planted in his kit! He was airlifted back to some air force brig in Norfolk, wich he reckons was probably a lot nicer than hanging around in the South Atlantic......

Having said that, what the fuck was anyone doing fighting over the Falklands/ Its a pointless piece of rock far closer to Argentina than it ever was to the Brits.....
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#5 Apr 02 2007 at 3:18 PM Rating: Decent
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British Imperialism and national pride I guess.


Monroe Doctrine, betta reckanize!
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#6 Apr 02 2007 at 3:31 PM Rating: Good
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Admiral EliteBeatAgent wrote:
Margaret Thatcher engineering a war to save her career, and cheering on "our Boys" after setting them up to die
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#7 Apr 02 2007 at 3:46 PM Rating: Good
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Grandfather Barkingturtle wrote:
My exposure to this war, seeing as how I was two at the time, came mostly in the form of feeling sorry for Opus, because if memory serves me correctly he was displaced by the conflict. Then again, some good did come of it, because otherwise I wouldn't be an almost thirty year-old man with a collection of plush penguins.


I was a mom of an 9 month old at the time, with my ex about to go to sea on The Ranger. My love for all thinks penguin started with friend who gave a Monty Python party, back in '76. Boyfriend at the time notice the one inch plastic penguin on the telly and later had his DnD figurines attack it with a pin. My penguin army was then formed and still grows each time I see penguins, plush, carved of rock or made of plastic for sale.

Few years back I saw a plastic penguin figure just like my first one, in the Minature Museum at Gettysburg hidden among the troops. I someday hope to find out who in our DnD group gave it to them.
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#8 Apr 03 2007 at 6:44 AM Rating: Good
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Lord xythex wrote:
Wikipedia wrote:
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.


For anyone else that didn't know.

I suppose time doesn't heal all wounds
True dat. I can't even remember what they're called in English, since we were never told that the name varied with the language. I had no idea the name was different until I tried translating them as "The Malvines."
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#9 Apr 03 2007 at 8:02 AM Rating: Excellent
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Nobby wrote:
Admiral EliteBeatAgent wrote:
Margaret Thatcher engineering a war to save her career, and cheering on "our Boys" after setting them up to die
Correct


Yeah, I always kinda figured it was because her pal Ronnie had had his pointless war on the brown folks, and Maggie was feeling left out of things.
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#10 Apr 03 2007 at 8:07 AM Rating: Decent
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Nobby wrote:


Glynn, Ed - Miss you.


Remembering them and sharing those memories; the grandest human contribution any of us could lend. Gj Nob.
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#11 Apr 03 2007 at 8:19 AM Rating: Good
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samara wrote:

nobby wrote:

EBA wrote:
Margaret Thatcher engineering a war to save her career, and cheering on "our Boys" after setting them up to die

Correct

Yeah, I always kinda figured it was because her pal Ronnie had had his pointless war on the brown folks, and Maggie was feeling left out of things.

Ronnie was involved with the Zulu Wars?
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#12 Apr 03 2007 at 8:29 AM Rating: Excellent
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Sure, why not. He was probably old enough - though he probably got out of combat by being an important morale boost to the troops, or some crap like that.
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