Every year since 1982, with February, March and April on the horizon,
talks, publications and debates about the Falklands conflict arise. War
memories and suffering crowd the headlines of newspapers, veterans are
remembered, strategies of war and decisions taken are revisited, documentaries
are broadcasted, and today and yesterday’s political speeches analysed. Some
bring back the humiliation of a lost war and the pain of broken families;
others talk about what happened, what did not happen and what could have
happened of an unnecessary and stupid war, like all wars.
Now then, and without wanting to elude the events of 1982, why is it that every time we talk about the Falklands we do it, almost instinctively, with reference to the war? Having talked with different people; Argentines and British, young and old, women and men, I feel there is something of an untold truth. A fixed and implicit debate from which we, the people are left out.