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Falklands programme, ITV1 now...

Post by CSK_423 » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:20 pm

I've always been intrigued by this event I was too young to remember it but have heard all the stories from my uncle who was involved in it at the age of 18, he was infantry with the royal scots guards.

Im sure some on here will remember it clearly :P
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Post by Skyenet » Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:00 am

CSK_423 wrote: Im sure some on here will remember it clearly :P
After comming out of the Forces I was in the Reserves when the war was looming :cry: When the war was announced I received a brown envelope from the MOD :shock: Thought that was bloody quick to get called up but relieved to find it was my discharge papers :lol:

I knew one of the Royal Marines who was in the Falklands when the they were first invaded. He was a bit of a sh*t and after being returned by the Argentines he was sent back to the UK. Saw him after the war and he was bragging to guys about getting a medal for the Falklands war. After him going on for ages I got a bit fed up linstening to him and said that things must have changed these days and asked him how folk that surrendered got medals :wink: That shut him up. Plenty people did deserve medlas for what they did. My memory of that time was that the whole thing was used by Margaret Thatcher to take people's focus awy from what was happening at home.

It was also the time when I could have made a fortune the day Maggie gave the go ahead to sink the Belgrano. I had the following photo of Maggie I had taken a few years before at Faslane when she was in opposition. What would the international press have paid for this picture that day :shock: Of course I would still be locked up in the Tower of London if I had published it :oops:

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Post by ExigeKen » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:55 am

Great picture I guess that you could have sold it to one of the more less serious papers. 8)
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Post by bobnitro » Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:18 pm

ExigeKen wrote:Great picture I guess that you could have sold it to one of the more less serious papers. 8)
she would have to be starkers for one of those papers :lol:
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Post by ExigeKen » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:23 pm

bobnitro wrote:
ExigeKen wrote:Great picture I guess that you could have sold it to one of the more less serious papers. 8)
she would have to be starkers for one of those papers :lol:
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Post by tut » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:52 pm

Look at the smile on his face...........and hers.

I reckon he is slipping her one from behind in good old Naval tradition.

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