Very Good News - Thanks to The UK For Its Behaviour

[Ovidio]

I just finished reading the newspaper and am very glad about what I read.
After 35 years, the British have started the identification of many fallen Argentinian soldiers of the Falklands war.
88 of them now rest in Darwin in a cemetery under their own name, allowing families to mourn them and to, maybe, close a painful chapter in their lives.
The article tells about the mother of a soldier named Elbio Eduardo, who decided to let him rest in Darwin, where the “enemy” will certainly take better care of him than his own fellow nationals.
There are apparently still high tensions in Argentina about the war for the Malvinas, and a bust of this poor soldier has been recently vandalised.
The identification has been made possible by the thorough work of a British Captain, who at the time recovered the bodies from the temporary graves where the Argentinians, in total disarray, buried them. Captain Geoffrey Cardozo first put them in body bags, then recorded them with indication of where they were recovered, and finally had them buried in a wooden casket in the cemetery, with all honors.
The current distention between Argentina and the UK, as well as the DNA tecnology, allowed this wonderful act of humanity.
As a former soldier, I was deeply moved by this fact, and am really grateful to all people involved.
I’m sure this will make also others glad here on this forum.

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