Falklands 40: Returning Home
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- čas přidán 19. 07. 2022
- 2022 marks 40 years since Argentine and British troops fought to gain control over the Islas Malvinas or Falkland Islands. The ten-week conflict started on 2 April 1982 and ended on 14 June when Argentina surrendered.
In April 2022, 10 Falklands veterans came to Fort Nelson and shared their stories with us. We spoke about their time in combat and the return home. Some sailed into Portsmouth and were greeted by tens of thousands, others had smaller welcome parties. All told fascinating and moving stories, some of which can be seen as part of the exhibition and some are told in this video.
From 25 May, there will be an exhibition at Fort Nelson to mark the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War. This exhibition depicts Portsmouth during the war from the point of view of the local Portsmouth newspaper, The News and features moving stories from Falklands war veterans.
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I have never known the country to come so close together as it did during the Falklands War....God Bless You All !
Amazing well truly earned it all you all did another reason why I joined up definitely proud QS
If any Veteran reads this, you got a hero's welcome, because even if you didn't believe that you were heroes, the British people did. You had liberated British citizens from an occupier, so you deserved to be welcomed home as heros.
I've never served, but a sincere thank you to all who risked everything in the carrying out of your duty on that all but barren rock in the middle of nowhere.
the falklands are argentinian dude no argument to be made just PURELY argentinian land the only claim you had was a slab
@@sotirismitzolis5171 keep trolling son, somebody might care eventually 😉
99.8% of the vote was to remain British you're delusional @@sotirismitzolis5171
@@sotirismitzolis5171get a life maybe if you were there like myself and the brothers that we lost in 2 para you might be able to get that into your head .
Thankyou sir
❤
Awesome.
There’s a good documentary from Timeline that shows both perspectives and interviews taken a few years after the war. There was no glory in the war, only horror and tragedy. At least they got home
yeah i mean Argentina and UK were just killing eachother for a piece of rock. i'm from Argentina and i really don't care about the war i don't care about that island. i think is more important my own country. But leaving that aside i think the horrors of war is what we should care about
This reminds me of the part in "Helmet For My Pillow," where they are finally relieved and the emaciated men are helped up the cargo netting onto the ships. Leckie describes asking a sailor if anybody even knew they were on Guadalcanal, and he is told that they are considered heroes. The troops had no idea anybody had even heard of the battle.
ppl saying the islands are from Argentina , other froms UK, im just here eating popcorn and reading it all
:)
Well if there are any Argentinaian don't worry you did get democracy for losing.
But you had to continue suffer from Thatcherism, the British equivalent to fascism
Yeah but they still haven't learned a damn thing. And they're having to suck up to the PRC to try and fix their economy.
Argentinian here, new generations understand the war like an attempt to hide the economic and social problems Argentina was going through.
And we are less fanaticized with the isles, we need to think about our mainland which is in crisis.
Hopefully when our country recovers we can make an agreement that benefits both countries 🤝🕊️
Britain please get your head out of your own behind.
Brits out
F&£% off Anti British people !!
UK's disgusting colonial past
It was retaking an island that had over 1,000 British citizens on it, it was not native people under subjugation. I guess it's colonial, but it was an empty island when taken except for first generation whalers that lived there and were allowed to live there after it became a British terrority
Get out.
@@Alex-cw3rz so you are telling me ucrain belong to Russia cuz there are millions of usssr citizens or smth? Pathetic
@@AWE_ZIOLIO the island was uninhabited, and not even known to exist prior to the british, it has been british for hundreds of years home to 2000 britons with a British culture, the desire to slaughter them by the Argentines was what was evil
@@ambivalentonion2620 not true pretty much everyone knew about before the brittish it is just that no one really wanted it so brittain said that they might as well take it,the falklands have been argentinian before they were brittish
Fart.
Just a declining Empire who thinks that might is right.
No disrespect to the men themselves but I dont understand why you would commemorate a war based purely on greed and the UK's disgusting colonial past, without even acknowledging it at the very least.
Grow up.
Lmao Argies mad
But it wasn't British greed, it was retaking an island that had over 1,000 British citizens on it, it was not native people under subjugation. I guess it's colonial, but it was an empty island when taken except for first generation whalers that lived there and were allowed to live after it became a British territory.
Yeah, except Argentina wasn't exactly a bastion of democracy all those years, were they? I believe Argentina started this one, and Britain finished it. Btw, I'm not British, but facts are facts.
Get. Out.
Las Malvinas argentinas
They don't look very argentinian
Quízas la gente de Argentina que tienen linaje Europeo deberían "regresar a" Europa y despues, podemos hablar de los Falklands!
You going to give Argentina back to the descendants of the Incas?
@@ayjay749 its British so are its people !!!