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Falklands send condolences to family and friends of Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward
In a brief message Gilbert House, seat of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly made public its condolences to the family and friends of Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward who was commander of the carrier force sent to recover the Falklands invaded and occupied by Argentine forces. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesRIP good sir, he restored freedom to the Falklands and democracy to Argentina.
Aug 05th, 2013 - 04:54 pm - Link - Report abuse +1The decision to attack the Belgrano was taken in Northwood, not by Woodward, Conqueror was not under the Admiral's command, he recommended that the Belgrano be attacked, and the Argentine Navy accepted that it was a legitimate target.
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/700676-cartas-de-lectores
Goodbye Sandy, a great loss for the nation and those liberated from the Argentines. A finer man if ever there was one.
Aug 05th, 2013 - 04:54 pm - Link - Report abuse +1RIP Sandy.
Aug 05th, 2013 - 05:03 pm - Link - Report abuse +1You lead a group of good men on a mission that the world said was impossible, and you liberated the people of the Falklands from a brutal murderous dictatorship.
The knock on effect of these actions also liberated the Argentine people from the dictatorship, although they'll never admit it.
Good Luck with your 'new command' at God's right hand.
RIP boss fair winds and following seas
Aug 05th, 2013 - 05:30 pm - Link - Report abuse +1RIP.
Aug 05th, 2013 - 05:38 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Home Is the Sailor
Home is the sailor, home from sea:
Her far-borne canvas furled
The ship pours shining on the quay
The plunder of the world.
Home is the hunter from the hill:
Fast in the boundless snare
All flesh lies taken at his will
And every fowl of air.
'Tis evening on the moorland free,
The starlit wave is still:
Home is the sailor from the sea,
The hunter from the hill.
A.E. Housman
RIP to the “Last of the fighting Admiral's” We still owe you so much. You will live forever as the man who gave freedom back to so many.
Aug 05th, 2013 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse +1We salute you sir.
3 LEPRecon
well said!!
A man who risked so mucg and dared to do what everyone else sid was “Impossible”.
God speed.
DEPARTED THE PIRATE ...
Aug 05th, 2013 - 05:40 pm - Link - Report abuse -1@7
Aug 05th, 2013 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Go fuck yourself, you colonially implanted hypocrite latino twat. You have nothing on old Sandy, He gave you lot an arse kicking in 1982, the likes of which Admiral Nelson would have been proud. This man is a hero and a liberator from your countries evil regime, the same regime by the way, which was brought down as a result of this “pirates” actions, you should be thanking him for your democracy.
DEPARTED THE VICTORIOUS ADMIRAL.
Aug 05th, 2013 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse +1The man who turned the mighty ARA into a bunch of lilly livered, shivering cowards, to scared to move out of sight of land for fear of meeting a real fighting navy and a real fighting Admiral.
@7 Jose your a prick, he was ten times the man you'll ever be and your stupid statement above proves it
Aug 05th, 2013 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Jose- prat- go and look up the word Pirate - A pirate is a free-booter who seeks his own future.
Aug 05th, 2013 - 06:27 pm - Link - Report abuse +1A Royal Navy Admiral - hell even and Arg Navy Admiral - receives his orders from his political leader - and then uses his and his fleet,s professional skill to achieve them.
You really are a thick idiot.
@7 And the supporters of Galtieri and the Dirty War appear.
Aug 05th, 2013 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Woodward liberated the Islanders from torture, forced adoptions, disappearances and murders, dropping people from helicopters, and the other things that also would have gone on for much longer in Argentina had Woodward failed due to the Argentines own rebooted support for the Dirty War, affirmed on 2-3 april with their cheering on the people who they were wanting out days before -- and it galls them to no end, highlighting both their national cowardice and their collective lust to have such illegitimate power over people's necks once again.
I'm waiting for a another predictable long winded post from you-know-who blaming Thacther again for the invasion and claiming that they were locked down tighter than North Korea and had no idea that the Junta was bad or that the Islanders didn't want the fascism they allegedly hated themselves (to the point of the Junta needing to ring Pavlov's Bell to keep themselves on the gravy train) rammed down ~their~ throats at gunpoint. That IS the lie he apparently has to teach to his schoolchildren. Anything to sooth the pathetic excuse for their national conscience.
7 José Malvinero
Aug 06th, 2013 - 02:52 am - Link - Report abuse +1You are a kn*bend of the highest order.
Why don't you just f**k off? there's a lamb.......
Leave the posting on this web site to the adults.
http://en.mercopress.com/2009/04/23/captain-of-falklands-war-cruiser-general-belgrano-dies-in-argentina
Aug 06th, 2013 - 06:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Interesting to compare and contrast the response from British posters when Hector Bonzo of the Belgrano died.
Don't feed the trolls, silence is the greatest contempt.
@8 Conor J,
Aug 06th, 2013 - 07:49 am - Link - Report abuse +1I don't normally swear unless l'm really provoked.
But l agree with you & your response to that malvinista dickhead.
@7 José Malvinero,
You are the stupidest piece of humanity that l've heard of.
ldiota is too good for you, señor shit-for-brains.
#7
Aug 06th, 2013 - 07:58 am - Link - Report abuse +1Woodward fought the battle and won.
Anaya ran for cover and hid.
That sums up the matter.
R.I.P. A man, an enemy circumstantial.
Aug 06th, 2013 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse -1@14 JustinKuntz
Man: A shout: let go sir Commander.
Bonzo: I did not recognize the man. Drop to the water.
Man: No sir Commandant , if you are not thrown into the sea, me neither.
Two human figures.
http://www.youtube.com./watch?v=1_-uSlwunDM
0:42:20
@ 17 for a minute i thought you were talking about the nuns you argies threw out of an airoplane.
Aug 06th, 2013 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse +1#5
Aug 07th, 2013 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have always liked this one:- Housman wrote his poem as a tribute to R.L.Stevenson
REQUIEM
by: Robert Louis Stevenson
UNDER the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
@16
Aug 08th, 2013 - 06:46 am - Link - Report abuse +1Says everything about Argentines that Anaya supported Galteiri for president as long as the Falklands would be invaded, ie the guy who wanted the war most, then ran and hid when it turned real.
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