| Can it really have been forty years?? 14:18 - Mar 31 with 1480 views | Lohengrin |
In just a few days, 2nd April, will mark the fortieth anniversary of the start of the Falklands Conflict.
Can it really have been forty years? It’s all gone by in the blink of an eye.
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 14:24 - Mar 31 with 1459 views | YrAlarch |
Very interesting documentary on Channel 4 last Sunday night. Learnt a great deal more about the conflict. Apparently we came close to losing it. |  | | |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 15:05 - Mar 31 with 1433 views | felixstowe_jack |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 14:24 - Mar 31 by YrAlarch |
Very interesting documentary on Channel 4 last Sunday night. Learnt a great deal more about the conflict. Apparently we came close to losing it. |
Close maybe but not close enough. A magnificent achievement to expel a larger invasion force and to mount an operation from over 8,000 miles away | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 16:02 - Mar 31 with 1400 views | onehunglow |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 15:05 - Mar 31 by felixstowe_jack |
Close maybe but not close enough. A magnificent achievement to expel a larger invasion force and to mount an operation from over 8,000 miles away |
Rule Britannia indeed.
People did not want to be run by Argentina.
Miles away or not | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 16:36 - Mar 31 with 1385 views | Lohengrin |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 14:24 - Mar 31 by YrAlarch |
Very interesting documentary on Channel 4 last Sunday night. Learnt a great deal more about the conflict. Apparently we came close to losing it. |
I’ll have to try and catch that, thanks. It was, as you say, a close call. Some horrifying mistakes were made whether through inexperience or incompetence, probably both. The loss of the Atlantic Conveyor and all the supplies she carried could have cost us dearly had it dragged on a few weeks longer.
Still, the sheer will to endure by the boys on the ground, and at sea, was astonishing. | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 16:55 - Mar 31 with 1375 views | controversial_jack |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 15:05 - Mar 31 by felixstowe_jack |
Close maybe but not close enough. A magnificent achievement to expel a larger invasion force and to mount an operation from over 8,000 miles away |
We couldn't do it now | | | |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 16:56 - Mar 31 with 1374 views | CountyJim |
How the hell the argies can claim them they weren't even a country when we took them |  | | |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 17:07 - Mar 31 with 1366 views | Flashberryjack |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 16:55 - Mar 31 by controversial_jack |
We couldn't do it now |
Probably not, far to many people living in the UK actually hate the UK. |  |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 17:13 - Mar 31 with 1364 views | Boundy |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 16:55 - Mar 31 by controversial_jack |
We couldn't do it now |
Typical one line response from you , again . | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 17:19 - Mar 31 with 1360 views | Boundy |
Remember it as if it was yesterday. We had then and still now have one of the best fighting forces in the world and we sent the best of the best, something the Falklanders islanders were then and now eternally grateful for. | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 17:24 - Mar 31 with 1357 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 16:02 - Mar 31 by onehunglow |
Rule Britannia indeed.
People did not want to be run by Argentina.
Miles away or not |
They were planted British people.
A massive failure of international diplomacy that so many young men should die or be badly injured.
One death is one too many.
The Argentinian people are our friends, not to mention Patagonia blood links to Wales.
The Argentinian government were the enemy.
Their troops were conscripted. |  |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 17:28 - Mar 31 with 1356 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 17:19 - Mar 31 by Boundy |
Remember it as if it was yesterday. We had then and still now have one of the best fighting forces in the world and we sent the best of the best, something the Falklanders islanders were then and now eternally grateful for. |
Less than 3,000 people live on the Falklands.
17,000 live in Morriston.
Yes they were grateful at the time, of course. | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 17:29 - Mar 31 with 1355 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 17:19 - Mar 31 by Boundy |
Remember it as if it was yesterday. We had then and still now have one of the best fighting forces in the world and we sent the best of the best, something the Falklanders islanders were then and now eternally grateful for. |
Our uk military has been underfunded for decades. | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 17:35 - Mar 31 with 1354 views | Boundy |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 17:28 - Mar 31 by Kilkennyjack |
Less than 3,000 people live on the Falklands.
17,000 live in Morriston.
Yes they were grateful at the time, of course. |
Still are , ask any veteran who returns | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 19:11 - Mar 31 with 1321 views | britferry |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 17:28 - Mar 31 by Kilkennyjack |
Less than 3,000 people live on the Falklands.
17,000 live in Morriston.
Yes they were grateful at the time, of course. |
the UK Army wouldn't have taken Morriston though | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 19:23 - Mar 31 with 1310 views | KeithHaynes |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 14:24 - Mar 31 by YrAlarch |
Very interesting documentary on Channel 4 last Sunday night. Learnt a great deal more about the conflict. Apparently we came close to losing it. |
The fact we sailed there from the Uk, on cruise ships etc. Updated the Argentinians ( news reports ) every day where we were and how long we were away. I think it was possibly one of the major victories in warfare in the twentieth century.
That aside, even if the Argentinians had won, they would have folded under the gorilla tactics employed by the chaps from Hereford. |  |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 19:52 - Mar 31 with 1284 views | 73__73 |
Rule Britannia 🇬🇧
Magnificent achievement being so far from home.
The toughest soldiers in the world in those days. | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 20:31 - Mar 31 with 1251 views | Flashberryjack |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 19:11 - Mar 31 by britferry |
the UK Army wouldn't have taken Morriston though |
They would have attacked on a Sunday when everyone was in church. | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 20:44 - Mar 31 with 1240 views | raynor94 |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 17:29 - Mar 31 by Kilkennyjack |
Our uk military has been underfunded for decades. |
Luckily we have Trident, in these troubling times |  |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 20:48 - Mar 31 with 1240 views | Boundy |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 19:23 - Mar 31 by KeithHaynes |
The fact we sailed there from the Uk, on cruise ships etc. Updated the Argentinians ( news reports ) every day where we were and how long we were away. I think it was possibly one of the major victories in warfare in the twentieth century.
That aside, even if the Argentinians had won, they would have folded under the gorilla tactics employed by the chaps from Hereford. |
Supply lines were certainly stretched and that's an understatement but we prevailed , something which is often forgotten is the other victory which was the people of Argentina, by losing the war led directly to the downfall of the murderous military dictatorship of Argentina., is not appreciated nowadays by many Argentinians, especially those in government who seem to want to repeat the same mistakes. | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 22:33 - Mar 31 with 1209 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 20:44 - Mar 31 by raynor94 |
Luckily we have Trident, in these troubling times |
Yes, fantastic to not invest enough in our service men and women, whilst instead investing billions on a weapon we will never use.
Brilliant. | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 22:35 - Mar 31 with 1206 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 19:11 - Mar 31 by britferry |
the UK Army wouldn't have taken Morriston though |
Good point, Morriston can be a handful at times … | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 22:37 - Mar 31 with 1205 views | Treforys_Jack |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 22:35 - Mar 31 by Kilkennyjack |
Good point, Morriston can be a handful at times … |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 23:08 - Apr 1 with 1121 views | Brynmill_Jack |
| Can it really have been forty years?? on 17:28 - Mar 31 by Kilkennyjack |
Less than 3,000 people live on the Falklands.
17,000 live in Morriston.
Yes they were grateful at the time, of course. |
Yeah, but if Argentina tried invading Morriston there would be no need for our army to get involved . |  |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 08:34 - Apr 2 with 1088 views | 73__73 |
40 years ago today Argentina invaded 🤬
RIP all the British warriors who fell and gave their lives for freedom 💔 | |
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| Can it really have been forty years?? on 10:36 - Apr 2 with 1060 views | jack_lord |
As history has unfolded, The Falkands is a British island/territory. Aregentina has become a nation in the same way as other American land masses. Argentina is totally hypocritical with any claim over the islands. Just because it is a few hundred miles of its coast doesn't mean anything apart from that is where it is. |  |
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