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Falklands recalls first loss at Goose Green in May 1982, and the incarceration of local residents by Argentine forces
This year, due to the COVID-19 situation, the commemoration will follow a different format. Members of the public are asked to respect the settlement’s self-isolation policy and not attend. The Falkland Islands are preparing for the commemoration of significant anniversaries of events from the 1982 conflict when Argentine forces invaded the country. The first of these will take place at 2pm on Sunday 3 May, when a short memorial service will be held at Goose Green to mark the death of Lieutenant Nick Taylor.
Lt Taylor, of 800 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Hermes, died on 4 May, 1982 when his aircraft was shot down over Goose Green.
Every year Goose Green residents, many of whom were incarcerated at the settlement hall during the war, gather to pay their respects and participate in the time-honored Act of Remembrance.
This year, due to the COVID-19 situation, the commemoration will follow a different format. Members of the public are asked to respect the settlement’s self-isolation policy and not attend.
Governor Nigel Phillips CBE and MLA Mark Pollard will lay wreaths, along with a representative from the Goose Green community. The Reverend Ian Faulds will preside over a short graveside service.
The event will be broadcast by Falklands Radio and FITV and the community’s remote participation is welcomed. You may simply wish to tune in, or share your thoughts and pay your respects on social media.
Plans for all other commemorations have been underway for several weeks and are progressing. These will be shared once they are finalized.
It is anticipated that because of the pandemic and social distancing, the community is unlikely to be able to give thanks in the usual way, but these anniversaries are vitally important, and the Falklands will continue to honor those lives lost and the sacrifices made for the freedom of our Islands.
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May 03rd, 2020 - 03:54 pm +3The only civilian casualties were at the hands of the murdering invaders from S. America.
Argentinians, foreigners with no business being on British soil.
Insurgents only, if they ran they were insurgents, if they stood they were well disciplined insurgents.
May 04th, 2020 - 02:24 pm +2But that was in the good old days, nowadays they are so grateful they save us the cost of the ammunition and detain themselves in camps in Turkey and Syria before drowning themselves in the Mediterranean.
There were definitely weapons of mass destruction there, Sadam used them on the Iranians and the Kurds.
They just weren’t there at the time of the coalition invasion, it’s all a question of timing you see, too easy to get hung up on little details like that and miss the bigger picture.
Now the price of oil is so low, no point in being there, time to go make peace somewhere else.
Sadam used chemical weapons against the Iranians, a lot, and against the Iraqi/Kurdish town of Halabja.
May 07th, 2020 - 04:35 pm +1He HAD them in abundance, question is what he did with them.
I would ask about the civilian casualties during the Conquest of the Desert, but of course there were no such thing as civilians in that war.
“Our self-respect as a virile people obliges us to put down as soon as possible, by reason or by force, this handful of savages who destroy our wealth and prevent us from definitely occupying, in the name of law, progress and our own security, the richest and most fertile lands of the Republic.
— Julio Argentino Roca.”
It was a war of Genocide.
Unlike the Mapuche, the British have more than just sticks and stones with which to defend their territories, from murdering, robbing, Creole Conquistador Planters from the North.
P.S. Look up the English colloquial expressions, “wind up” and “taking the piss”. As I fear some of my finest sarcasm is “going straight over your head”, you may want to look that one up as well.
So far it has been a battle of wits, with a completely unarmed man.
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