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    FAREWELL TO ARMS

    Nov 08, 2021 4 minutes

    On September 28, 2021 at 9.30am I met with his excellency, the Argentinian ambassador to the UK, Javier Figueroa. He immediately told me to call him Javier with a handshake and a very friendly look in his eyes – I knew then that I was going to like him.

    What you are about to read is not about the events that happened or my part in them; it is about the 62-year-old me, what I feel about that time, what I have been doing on June 14 – the anniversary of the ending of the 1982 Falklands conflict – and how it led to me having

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