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Falklands commemorates anniversary of the war and Remembrance Sunday
A ‘Short Service of Thanksgiving and Commemoration on the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Liberation of the Falkland Islands’ will be held on Saturday 10 November at the Liberation Monument in Stanley in the presence of HRH The Duke of Kent and returning veterans of the 1982 war. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGOD SAVE THE QUEEN,
Nov 05th, 2012 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Heres to upholding the right to Self Determination!!!
A solemn occasion to remember those of our marvellous armed forces who gave whatever was necessary to overcome a bunch of cowardly, craven animals, known as the AG military.
Nov 05th, 2012 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My thoughts will be with you all.
HURRAH FOR HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II.
Hurrah for her majesty Reina Cristina, now to reach for the olive branch of peace she has extended...
Nov 05th, 2012 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20202966
Nov 05th, 2012 - 11:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Isn`t it a nice story?
“Getting to know the enemy may be a lot better than bombing them”.
Islanders have something to learn from this nice story. Getting to know your fellow countryman (argentines) may be better than perpertuating a British colony and militarizing the South Atlantic.
@4
Nov 05th, 2012 - 11:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Getting to know the enemy may be a lot better than bombing them”.
If only Galtieri had followed that bit of advice.
Sorry I'll repeat that, if only CFK could do that, without cutting off the Islanders via any means she can, with the lingering threat of military force which keeps the British Garrison on the Islands a necessity for their defence.
If only...
4 Islas Malvinas (#)
Nov 05th, 2012 - 11:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nov 05th, 2012 - 11:00 pm
Yes. Ths is quite a nice story too.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087289/Falklands-war-pilot-comes-face-face-man-thought-killed.html
Shame about the headline stating that Neil Wilkinson was a pilot but the sentiment stands.
Anyway. What was your point?
BK,
Nov 06th, 2012 - 12:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0“olive branch of peace”?
Is Christina going to lift the ban on charter flights and Falklands flagged vessels then?
#5 Ma'am doesn not make a lingering or any threat of violence, and the garrison was kept even when Menem was doing exactly as you want her to do now, no?
Nov 06th, 2012 - 12:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0@BK
Nov 06th, 2012 - 12:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Olive branch of peace.
How is that going to be achieved if CFK cuts off the supply line to the Islanders by restricting flights, blockading FI flagged vessels etc?
If she was offering a peace, then wouldn't she be co-operative and more open to dialogue with the Islanders?
Your Comment- for information during the time of Menem and Ditela the force levels in and around the Islands WERE REDUCED - we went down to a visiting frigate or destroyer about 2 weeks every 12 weeks, and minimal submarine prescence.
Nov 06th, 2012 - 12:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Since Kirschener arrived with you -British Naval prescence has been increased considerably - to match the rhetoric and threats - also the RAF Tornados were replaced with the FIRST overseas posting of the Typhoon Eurofighters.
All this a direct response to Kirscheners Threats. Got It? It is Argentina that has the neck-winding in to do!
Despite all this the offer of direct talks made by the Islands elected Govt is still awaiting a reply from CFK - please ask her why is she not replying?
@3 you talk about peace, i thought the understanding was that we are at peace now, the war is over UK won, is it not??
Nov 06th, 2012 - 01:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0its the argentine defence minister who is talking of invasion remember, he should really give peace a chance,he and countless argentines will live longer?
why is it arg trolls have limited memory capabilities??
Were the senior Tories accused of being part of paedophile ring invited ?
Nov 06th, 2012 - 05:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9657036/How-Tory-paedophile-claims-were-covered-up.html
@12 Marcos
Nov 06th, 2012 - 06:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Back on topic:
Enough with the feeble distraction attempt.
We won the war - you didn't .
We are celebrating that.
We are also celebrating our fallen soldiers from two World Wars.
( oh, yeah, you didn't participate, you harboured War Criminals who murdered civilians instead )
We have respect for the War Dead, ours and yours - you don't.
You could not even bury them in Argentina for their families.
Guzz, to his disgrace, was making fun of heroic soldiers dying in battle.
Your commanders didn't even give their troops decent clothing or enough food.
I don't imagine you are going into combat if Argentina invades, again. You and PH and Guzz have no respect or appreciation of the sacrifices and suffering others will experience - while you encourage them with glib remarks.
Do you three gleefully tell your parents, grandparents, children, what you say on here and what you think of people ??
I sincerely hope everyone has their poppys on their chests and that they wear them with pride.
Nov 06th, 2012 - 08:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0With the acception of the Falklands War a member of my family has been in nearly every war we have fought since the turn of the 1900s.
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.” (Laurence Binyon)
Never forget these men and women who died so that we may live freely.
One for KFC - “Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain” (Dostoevsky)
@BK - What olive branch of peace is that then?
Nov 06th, 2012 - 08:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0She has a funny way of showing peaceful intentions - she is more like Basil Fawlty - hitting the Falklands with a bit of tree due to her own frustraction at achieving anything actually worthwhile in her own country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv0onXhyLlE
@4
Nov 06th, 2012 - 09:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Getting to know the enemy may be a lot better than bombing them”.
Islanders have something to learn from this nice story. Getting to know your fellow countryman (argentines) may be better than perpertuating a British colony and militarizing the South Atlantic.
We're countrymen but yes I would like to get to know Argentina better and would visit if it wasn't for the beligerance of your government. Militarizing the South Atlantic, read defending a peaceful population from invading. You'd probably do much better trying to convince people if your defence minister hadn't stated that the British garrison was the only thing stopping Argentina from taking the Falklands
@5
If the garrison had left during Menem's term Argentina would have invaded by now.
Benson - where is your proof that the Falkland Islanders are responsible for “militarizing the South Atlantic”? There are no more weapons or military personnel in the archipelago than there were after the Argentine invasion of 1982. The Argentine army personnel and equipment far outnumbered any subsequent British military presence.
Nov 06th, 2012 - 10:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0And, of course, the Falklands Islands is not a British colony - only in your tiny mind and in the minds of the pathetic malvinistas.
Gordon I think you might have got the wrong end of Bensons stick there bloke.
Nov 06th, 2012 - 10:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0@17
Nov 06th, 2012 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah I think you misunderstood me Gordo1, I was saying that the reason that the UK military in in the Falklands is because Argentina would invade if they weren't. There are in fact far less military personal than there were after the war. MPA was built to house about 8000 personal if I remember right, nowadays there are about 700 soldiers plus ancillary staff.
ps
Just re-read my post, that should have read “We're Not countrymen”
@4
Nov 06th, 2012 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0”Getting to know your fellow countryman (argentines)”
However the invitation by FIG to talk with the Argentines has been ignored, which shows the Islanders willingness to get to know the Argentines and also shows the Argentines refusal to take into account 'the Islanders interests'.
No wonder the UK will not talk to Argentina as they are breaking UN resolutions by dismissing the Islanders interests and the possibility of Independance, and also that the UN Charter has to be taken into account, which again the Argentines refuse, (all mentioned in the resolutions).
However as most of the homeborn Falkland Islanders were not born in Argentina they cannot be Argentine (as neither are they English, if they were not born in England).
Argentina is nearly 400 miles away from the Falkland Islands, not within 12 miles.
Live with that and suck on it.
3 BK
Nov 06th, 2012 - 12:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Olive branch of peace? What other choice does she have, any other move would be laughable. Are you suggesting that anyone would tremble if she threatened any sort of military action? Methinks perhaps you give the lady too much credit. Like Ophelia she needs to mind her country manners.
@3 Lol Olive Branch of peace, more like Maximo Cream Bun of ineptitude
Nov 06th, 2012 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hmm! Self-determination without absolute freedom as an independent country sounds to me as a dog choosing the master that will hold its lead around the park.
Nov 06th, 2012 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@23 if you want to use metaphors its more like concerned citizens putting up a fence to stop dogs crapping on their lawns
Nov 06th, 2012 - 01:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@23 Symbiosis?
Nov 06th, 2012 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3 Let's just kick her plastic face off!
Nov 06th, 2012 - 01:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 What a dozy prat. Countrymen? Argies? Not a chance. Sub-humans. 41,281,631 war criminals. Plus out-of-country cowards. But they'd make good manure.
@8 Oh, shut up. You are just a piece of smelly scum.
@12 No. Neither were any faggot argies. Is that 41 million faggot argies?
@14 We will not forget. Our FALLEN are the best of the best. By land, or sea, or air, no nation has ever been represented or served so ably, with so much courage or so much honour. And, if there is ever a slip, the enemy deserved it!
@23 What would you know? In your last “election” CFK BOUGHT US$6 million worth of votes. Check for your own leash!
@25 Parasites! That's all argies are. The parasites of the world!
6. War Monkey. That story you brought up here on a Daily Mail link shows the real depth of Man's humanity. In rugby, you trounce a coming forward, but join him on a couple of beers after the match is over. Thank you.
Nov 06th, 2012 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 024& 25. Wake up to reality!
26 You're the scum here. Not one of us.
@27 ?
Nov 06th, 2012 - 02:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My Great Grand Father fought in World War I. He fought in the Battle of the Somme. His courage did not know no bounds though as he went on to serve as an Air Raid Warden in World War II.
Nov 06th, 2012 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He was so shell shocked that people would have to be extremely quiet around him. Any sudden noise no matter the volume would set him off.
He was a casaulty of both Great Wars and should be remembered along with every person to have fought and/or died since regardless of race, colour, religion, political agenda, creed, etc.
This is a day is not for people to turn into a slagging match. It is a day for respect towards the dead; Argentinian conscript, or British regular, it doesn't matter.
@29 Clap, clap, clap, clap.
Nov 06th, 2012 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@26 Conqueror/Captain Poppy
Nov 06th, 2012 - 04:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0mind your own UK country....the UK is flat broke check the UK Debt Clock
30
Nov 06th, 2012 - 06:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0be caréful thát clap and gonorrhea are saying the samé meaníng sométimes.
@32 English, please?
Nov 06th, 2012 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@31 Sussie
Nov 06th, 2012 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0check posts @29 and 30, please.
33
Nov 06th, 2012 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0multiple versions of this word .....
clap : applause, acclaim,hand
clap : gonorrhea
clap : tapping
clap : clash,rumble
clap : tapping
clap : roaring
clap : whisk
clap : replace
clap : fit, set
clap :hit,multiple
it is depend on which one you use...
you see english is a feeble/shifty language.
@34 troy tempest
Nov 06th, 2012 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0your farts counts,,,,,,,
We are the Dead. Short days ago
Nov 06th, 2012 - 07:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
(Second verse of John McEnroe's “In Flanders Fields”).
The dead know no differences. The timid are just as dead as the heroes.
The professionals are just as dead as the conscripts.
My greatest respect to all.
The dead of the Falklands conflict rid Argentina of a monstruous government. But the Islanders are still harrassed by a supposedly democratic Argentina.
Is it fit to think that Argentina will know no redemption?
@32 Tipsy
Nov 06th, 2012 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe we should give @30 Islas Mslvinas some credit?
The way I read his post, He is applauding the non-partisan observance of the sacrifice of soldiers everywhere, as mentioned in post @29.
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For the thousands that read these bloggs,
Nov 06th, 2012 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a total disgrace some of the argie blogger make of themselves,
Childish remarks, derisory insults, abusive comments,
And you wonder why the British will never ever allow Argentina to get control of the Falklands,
If the gutter was paradise, the Argies would feel well at home.
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@35 Got you. Clearly applause is what I meant.
Nov 06th, 2012 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@38 Thank you.
@39 Can you give yourself a break?
40 Islas Malvinas
Nov 06th, 2012 - 08:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can you give your self a KIT-KAT??
@41 A Toblerone better.
Nov 06th, 2012 - 08:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Falklands commemorates anniversary of the war and Remembrance Sunday”
Nov 06th, 2012 - 09:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I suppose we will be remembering the Argentine dead for them as well, seems the Argentine's either refuse too recognise their war dead or ignore them.
Anyone who prefers war over peace is an idiot. We should all resolve on here that we will never solve our differences between each other ever again by war.
Nov 06th, 2012 - 10:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We how that much at least to the dead and the loved ones on both sides.
It is not a time for apportioning blame, it is a time for solemn remembrance and a realisation that war never resolves anything. Ther are no winners or loosers, just victims.
an Argies who know the kitkat anda toblerone,
Nov 07th, 2012 - 12:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0interesting.
@45 How come?
Nov 07th, 2012 - 01:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0can you but these things in argentina.
Nov 07th, 2012 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we presume you can, but under another name.
@47 Toblerones are Topblerones everywhere :)
Nov 07th, 2012 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0they changed a lot of ours to suit our European masters.
Nov 07th, 2012 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0opel fruits=starburst.
marathon = snickers.
still never mind
37 ynsere
Nov 08th, 2012 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0But you have to remember where all the dregs of the world have settled and why.
Peron and his whore of a wife “The Lady” as she was ludicrously referred to allowed the Nazis into the country (for a fee) and things haven’t looked up since.
Why should we expect it to get better? The majority of the population think tax evasion is what they must do (having crooks in the tax office doesn’t help) and the Policia are notoriously corrupt.
AND, these people keep voting this crap into power: they deserve the shafting they get.
I feel sorry for the relatively few really decent people such as Simon68 and my next door neighbour and his family who did not vote for her but are hijacked on this sinking ship just the same.
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