Words from Colonel Esteban Vilgre La Madrid

In April, 1982 he was Second Lieutenant (19 years old) of the Mechanized Infantry Regiment No. 6 (RIM6)

My Soldiers, both on Mount Tumbledown and on Mount Two Sisters, are grateful to the British
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for the chivalry with which they were treated. Because, beyond the rude treatment that a prisoner of war deserves, they never stopped behaving like gentlemen who are and as professional as they were.
My wounded soldiers were evacuated and treated by British soldiers.

During the visit to Argentina of the British surgeon of the Ajax Bay Hospital, one of my soldiers wounded in combat, Duarte, approached from his city to where he was and thanked him, because the doctor was the one who operated on him in the field hospital of Ajax Bay and saved

his leg, which was going to be amputated.
The so-called "enemies"
For me, they aren’t enemies. They are comrades who have to be on the other side and fulfill the same mission as me.
So when I refer to British soldiers, I call them "members of the brotherhood of the South Atlantic

," because victory and defeat are for politicians and historians. The soldiers, we only have left for the costs of those victories or defeats, and the ghosts will be among us the same and the dead comrades do not matter if

they won or lost, they are dead the same and the comrades with ghosts do not care if they won or if they lost.
The soldier always pays the cost of wars.
And wars are never decided by soldiers, they are always decided by the conductions of the countries.

And the British and Argentine soldiers confronted the war for what they are.
For this reason, I like to call the Falklands war, “The last war between Gentlemen”

2nd Lt Esteban Vilgre Lamadrid, Mt Two Sisters, April,82

Lt Vilgre Lamadrid and his soldiers.

Colonel Esteban Vilgre Lamadrid

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