Panorama last night, just watched it on BBC IPlayer, a decent watch

Ha ! Don't recall seeing him.

Not usually my cup of tea these things, but this was presented in a sober sort of way, not glorifying war or coming from a Rule Britannia angle. In fact it showed war up for what it generally is, a futile exercise , with working class people used as pawns in a power struggle for the benefit of the rich.

I thought it was brilliant. There IS footage of Mr I in The Falklands, I've seen it. There's also a photo which they use a LOT with him in it, got it saved somewhere. I noticed they also played the "Mr I version" of the Dire Straits song...his second biggest hit single!!!

There's one with a soldier guarding a few captives that I always thought looked like Mr I, guessing it's that one?

I saw the last 15 minutes of the programme and it was moving watching those middle aged blokes trying to come to terms with something they'd gone though in their youth.

The mind can't help but boggle at how two entire generations coped with the memory of world wars. Makes me think about my grandda who wouldn't talk about Gallipoli and the Western Front, my dad who got half his face blown off by a mortar round on his second day in combat in 1940, even my ex's dad who spent the war in the magazine of an aircraft carrier - all he could do was burble on about what fine, brave chaps the Fleet Air Arm pilots were, when he must have shat himself every time action stations sounded.

How bloody lucky are we to have missed all that?

Incidentally; 255 dead in the war, over 320 suicides since. Same story for the Argies.

Those lads were Welsh Guards and I was at Fitzroy when they got hit. We helped get them off the ships and onto helicopters. These are memories I'd rather not have frankly.

Here is me keyboard warrioring and consulting maps early May 1982 in South Georgia which is on the edge of the Antarctic. A few weeks before we landed on hte Falklands and it all went noisy.

why are you looking at the other blokes arse?

It was a shapely arse.

Did the Army allow hippies back then? You all needed a haircut!

Are you trying to annoy MrI..He wasn't in the Army..

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You should have seen the hippies that matched into Stanley!