At 29 years of the Falklands War 
April 2, 1982 was the beginning of the end for the Process of National Reorganization, and was the beginning of the end for our intentions to rebuild our country a fraction of it was caught by England makes several centuries. Those years, for Argentine who wants to remember, lost in thick fog of oblivion and "Operation Oblivion" by the military deployed around the Falklands, are lost in cold moments, distressing, revealing in the multiplication of men torn giving its spin on the impossibility of exceeding the particular context that surrounds and suffocates. Everything that makes up a collage of stories and not minimum-mixing both large and despicable actions between abject rapporteurs deep stories and incredible heroes who had no more than 19 years and had never left their villages, let alone had dispardo or had been trained for war.
The images presented in those years are emerging in disgust, images in black and white, olive green, gray, gray, sepia, "Blessed by Fire", between flashes of gunfire and explosions and flashes in the night without lights flickering the disillusionment of war. Boats, green cars, helicopters, combat aircraft, nuclear, communications, cables, supportive programs, puppet artists, political puppets, voodoo dolls smiling Argentine capitalism in the Rural Society and the American embassy. But despite all this death, horror meanwhile, can be colors, anecdotes, incidents of "kids" who came to give his life for his country in a stupid war that forced everyone to tear us completely, but this hidden war frames that can give us lessons and let us hope for the future to come. This is the case of the teacher who wrote the letter to his students and read yesterday President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the ceremony held in Rio Gallegos by another anniversary of the start of the Falklands War.
In principle, the peculiarity of any war annuls the subjective condition of
testimony because the shock that occurs makes the experience is translated, non-transferable. The men silent shock. That war silenced an entire country, has made Argentina into a body without a voice, an inert being who could not cram anything that happened. This opens thus a gap between the events in the history and the experience of the event that every soldier or citizen had to face Argentina in the midst of all this, the narrative of the events in which abyss's own body is torn and eliminates the possibility of collective apprehension necessary to purge the personal hell, the individual and collective trauma that burns. One can hardly feel the feelings of the other, much less make a lot of feelings collective uniformity can be clearly read as scientific analysis. But remember, memory, count ... a thousand times to tell what happened to us, the miracles happening to us.
In Falklands, each lived different experiences, even if one state has a yard of another. You can have 10 000 stories, each moment was unique to those who lived there. For those who were not here in the south, or inland, for those not blinded by the dictatorship, every moment was also unique. The other, danced to the rhythm of miliary no guilty conscience, or during the war, or to surrender. Many did as if nothing had happened, as if they were not dead friends, siblings, children, parents, students, teachers, employees, workers, laborers and above all, boys, boys everywhere endure the rigors of war.
Malvinas, like many other islands of memory, is a breeding ground for delivery men torn and to conceal the atrocities committed by friends and strangers who learned to hide so well, but from the moment the anchor in subjectivity of the witness is not leaves, in principle, a common understanding of the act is clear "censored" a perfume, a color, texture returns to this and it all happens again. However, the growing proliferation of stories about war and its surrounding historical, not let the experience was lounging in the cycle, inevitable for some time, which can occur because of the repetition in a way: the victimization.
Falklands War is a part of the recent history of Argentina. The data and testimonies collected over these 29 years have managed to break the silence and expose an injustice done: during the war the Argentine soldiers not only had to fight the enemy, but hunger, cold and unprecedented incompetence and cruelty of their own military leaders. They had to fight a war with the third world power without being professional, without instruction, without adequate equipment, without a tactic and a strategy to combat without support, and ammunition. Abandoned to their fate, rather, forced to fight or be tortured, they were left there, so that the "pirates" English play to war with them for a while. Former soldiers
witness aberrations committed by officers and NCOs of the Armed Forces, through the testimonies of those who suffered first hand the physical torture, psychological, the staked and betrayal can reconstruct the "story" of what happened in the South Atlantic. They witnessed the incompetence, irresponsibility and cowardice on the part of those who should lead. We wanted to impose a covenant of silence, that "they" were taught. Tried for all these long years tell another story, that "they" called "The True History." Conditioned democracy with the causes of the soldiers, and "them", its cause, "due obedience" laws and end point and hold harmless the office. I lied to family members, never made a self and hid under a blanket of forgetfulness and impunity general.
What we experienced then return, ie the war, was determined by the indifference of a society traumatized by their unthinking support for the dictatorship and the silence and forgetfulness imposed by the military. Back was the beginning of a painful way for a large number of soldiers shaken by the horror and the future that would not be the same. Somehow, he fought the former combatants, giving them back, forcing them to marginalization, burying in oblivion and indifference. Result: the suicides of veterans reach approximately 500 cases
later social indifference the conflict contrasted with the patriotic fervor that the April 2, 1982 led to the announcement of the "recovery" of the Falkland Islands in the mouth of Leopoldo Galtieri. The Plaza de Mayo, dyed blue and white, was filled with thousands of citizens, including many well-known political and labor leaders. Hailed the dictator, who said: "If you want to come, come, we will present battle."
the end of the war, on June 14, everything changed suddenly. After the defeat, those same people tried to burn the House of Government, began to Galtieri of power and would not speak again for a long time Falklands. The final chapter of the conflict closed of dictatorship and was a decisive factor for the restoration of democracy, but about the war, the company did not take over their responsibilities.
In return, the authorities and society behaved as if the soldiers were responsible for the defeat. There was a tacit agreement to forget the war, returning to hide and erase from the minds the experience. For the low military officers to the soldiers made him sign an affidavit, in which they undertook to silence and thus to forget. Talk about what happened during the war was the first thing that prohibited the military. Thus, pain, humiliation, frustration, disappointment, anger, were within each one of them to become unbearable in many cases. Is to talk, tell, was the first step to exorcise them hell inside and begin to heal the wounds. But you could not, were matters of state. So the return was cruel, silent, hidden. The welcome was for the privacy of the home, which in many cases, was also cold.
It is in this record of victimization in which was dissolved impossible gesture representing Malvinas. The loss of community that formally makes obvious the June 14, 1982 beings scattered them, they were collected, if not abandoned, in their subjective pain. In this sense, the loss of community soldiers resulted in victims, who then reversed his ontology of the mainstream society in Argentina. Or, perhaps, was a reverse movement, by which Argentina society to lose their last crap shoot of a substantial community, symbolized in the Falklands, he found the path of victimization and self-victimization as the only way they could absorb the loss of such bet. In short, the historical change has proved to be the same: we all lost the community, we all picked up as victims. And broken seek solace in the guise of human rights discourse that its formalism fell short of our state of shock while washing was slowly and progressively
all memory of the community substantially.
On each anniversary, we understand the need to exercise and put everything in place, review the past to build the future, put dictators and murderers in prison, as those responsible for the defeat, too.
"We must learn to distinguish between things that happened, to separate those who governed under undemocratic ways of the fact itself, which is the exercise of sovereignty and the rejection of colonialism that still shames the century." Were the words uttered by Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Rio Gallegos, in the event to mark the 29th anniversary of Argentine landing in the Falklands.
need to win our own war and remember those who died both in the islands and those who returned and as a result of indifference and neglect, have taken their lives.
Malvinas is the symbol of a violent amputation of a story piecemeal. And when you can not say all, many prefer to say nothing. The waters between the Falkland Islands from the mainland are tinged with red blood, live, hot, the vast majority of political activists and veterans. And yet, the snowy cold of a remote place and dispensable dominate our representation of the islands, if we can not assume it as inevitable part of our recent history. Precisely we said Malvinas marks a turning point without which the eighties become unthinkable. They represented the symbol of a relaunch of the national aplazante.
At 29 years of that war, rather than say something, it is essential to feel the full right to think that history which we lived was not in vain. That pain was, or is "in vain. That memory should not be just a nightmare. That memory should not be convened only once or twice a year. That is more than Malvinas war. That Malvinas present and future.
The following is the text of the letter dated Puerto Rivero, April 29, 1982, which was read yesterday in the main event for Veterans Day and Memorial in the Falklands War in Rio Gallegos:
"To my dear friends dear students 3 * D: We have not had time to say goodbye and this had worried me a lot of nights here in the Falklands , where I am fulfilling my duty as a soldier defending our flag.
"I hope you do not worry much about me, because very soon we'll be together again and we will close our eyes and we will get on our huge condor , and we'll say we get everyone to the "land of fairy tales", which as you know is very close to the Falklands. And now as the teacher is well aware Falkland Islands we will not lose.
"Guys want you to know that at night when I lie down, close my eyes and I see each of their little faces, laughing and playing, when I sleep I dream I'm with you I want to get too excited and to study hard because his teacher is a soldier who loves and misses them.
"Now you just pray with you again soon. Much love to his teacher that you never forget.
"Lady also wish to extend my memory and greetings to all staff: Ms. Silvana, Mr. Galo, Cristina, Nora Mercedes, Barbara, Elizabeth and all the teachers of my shift and school. In Ms. Alicia wanted to know what your mate really miss the 13 hours, and I hope soon again to taste and breakfast here is a kind of mate tea mixed with lime and a little masonry cement, no sugar.
"Having been distracted too much attention but feel for a moment with you. I decided to finish these lines with the hope of meeting with you shortly. Affectionately. July", this concludes the letter of July Cao.
