Honoring Britain's Veterans of the Falklands War - 25 years ago

Scroll down in the text of this article to see some good photographs of the British military on parade and some pictures of Margaret Thatcher & Tony Blair greeting veterans along with princes Charles & Andrew.

TigerHawk: "The spring of 1982 was a barren time for the West. The capitalist economy was in a shambles, the Soviet Union was resurgent, America had not yet recovered from the indignities of the Ford and Carter years, and Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had not yet established themselves as the great leaders we now know they were. The Falklands War was therefore quite possibly the most essentially rejuvenating foreign policy moment between Israel's recovery of its hostages in Uganda in 1976 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Finally the West had stood up to a tin-pot dictator and given him his comeupance."

Several years ago I was in Buenos Aires while the Argentines were putting the finishing touches on their memorial to the same war. They also honor their veterans, and obviously view this conflict differently. We didn't get to know the locals well enough to discuss politics, but I got the impression that most people thought it was unimportant old news.