Falklands not forgotten Today

[John Young]

Hi to our friends in Our Falkland Isles & our loving respect to our Fallen.

I,m not an admirer of our present P M but he did come out with a lovely Quote in today,s Mail on Sunday,

Quote ; "The white smoke over the Falklands was pretty clear ",

This in support of the Islanders fantastic vote,,And response to a remark made by the new Pope suggesting to
return the Islands to Argentina.

Nice 1 Dave,,,cheers & Total support for Our people everywhere,,,Johnride:

 

[sistersue61]

Agree with you there John, the Islanders were pretty unanimous in their decision weren't they!
Sue

 

[paul stacey]

Here, here, John, lost some old friends in the South Georgia helecopter crash 1982.
paul

 

[John Young]

Paul, a slight correction if i may,,, They...are not "lost" while respectfully remembered by you & thousands of us here in UK
AND our lovely Falkland Islanders who honour them who worship the very ground,,,They fell upon,,, Bless em...John

 

[Donbogen]

Well said all of you i was there post invasion clearing the mess up.

 

[maypolebaz]

A bloke I worked with was on the Galahad. He can be seen in that newsreel footage of the lifeboats being rowed ashore, he's sitting in the back of the first one.

 

[Bernard67Arnold]

It is to be hoped we dont have to return, we certainly havent got the forces we had in 1982.Remember seeing Tony Benn being interviewed, he said had Labour been in power we would not have sent the Task Force to take them back!

 

[Dave M]

New Plaque on the Falklands Memorial, at the National Memorial Arboretum

 

[paul stacey]

Hi Donbogen, were you RE, my old mate Stewart Stotard, was a full screw with 9 Para, and spent some months down there defusing Argi mines and ordnance.
paul

 

[Donbogen]

Hi Master Brum no me not REME i was part of fire demo team who gave displays etc a small team of us were sent over to select Argie weapons to bring home for evaluation most of team was REME we had Argie Argie pows help us them @ reme dealt with mines @ stuff me just small arms but we did bring back 20/30mm AA cannon I still got put on guard as well.