tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7736300261827934070.post521600523499598518..comments2023-06-14T03:45:37.632-07:00Comments on War for Slow Readers: Falklands LegacyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7736300261827934070.post-37290674934843866152014-11-11T14:41:30.637-08:002014-11-11T14:41:30.637-08:00I tackle this issue in my new blog, where, amongst...I tackle this issue in my new blog, where, amongst other things, I'm chronicling my 10mm Falklands project: http://doandrollthedie.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/by-way-of-introduction.htmlGarethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09486311422850536804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7736300261827934070.post-82703691610354931222013-04-24T19:33:24.855-07:002013-04-24T19:33:24.855-07:00Wow...thanks Chris.
Very humbling. I'll start...Wow...thanks Chris.<br /><br />Very humbling. I'll start basing those ships now.<br /><br />John.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08290945526375073929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7736300261827934070.post-23741644582211106702013-04-24T15:57:37.031-07:002013-04-24T15:57:37.031-07:00Dear John,
Thank you for this thought-provoking p...Dear John,<br /><br />Thank you for this thought-provoking post. Before commenting, I took the trouble to read the article in full and spend a convivial evening with an old friend from the '80s, during which we discussed the "days of our youth". <br /><br />I cheered when the Belgrano sank. I was ashore at San Carlos at the time. My elation subsided when the Atlantic Conveyor sank. My squadron diving kit, Land Rover and driver's transistor radio went down with it too. Fortunately, none of my Sappers sank! <br /><br />Watching a graceful slow white spiral contrail in a crystal blue sky and realising afterwards that I had witnessed the death of a complete Canberra crew in slow motion brought home a more realistic view of war. <br /><br />The row of boots under a tarpaulin at Goose Green, The empty stretcher in the cemetary at San Carlos with a bloodstained bandage trailing, these are eyewitness memories that will die with time and their bearers. Perhaps someone took a photograph and perhaps , long afterwards, someone will make a 15mm diorama by way of hommage. I do this sort of thing for WWII, a war that ended 10 years before my birth, so no need for undue sollemnity or reverence needed here. <br /><br />As one of "Thatchers boys (The Sun's accolade, not mine)", I thought that her Government should have fallen for the Falklands cock-up. I thought that she displayed courage or desparation sending the Task Force, and I thought that it set back any meaningful negotiation for a generation. I have great hopes of my descendents and their Argentinian contemporaries, but I won't be surprised if they screw it up too.<br /><br />Kind regards, Chris.Chris Kemphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15784847480097649252noreply@blogger.com