He found a helmet of the Falklands War and is trying to return it to his owner.

A young man residing in Lanús wishes to give his owner or his family a helmet in his possession for years that could have belonged to a veteran of the

Falklands War

.

"I do not know how or why, but at home, I have a veteran helmet from the Falklands for many years and I want to return it.I would be grateful if you would help me do the RT so that she reaches her family that really belongs to her ", posted yesterday on Twitter Matías Buonocore.

In one day, the tweet was replicated hundreds of times and got answers from different parts of the country for easier searching.

Matías is 21 years old, lives in Lanús, works in a sanatorium, starts a professional adventure with a friend and studies law.

"I was very shocked by the story I heard a few days ago about the auctioned headphones in the UK and returned to its owner in Argentina. I am reminded that I had this helmet at home, which my uncle brought at the age of 5 or 6. And he was kept in my house, "said Matías.

The idea of ​​the young man was triggered by the case of veteran Falklands, Jorge Alberto & Beto & # 39; Altieri, who
He found a few days ago the helmet that saved his life during the Battle of Monte Longdon in 1982, after being removed from an auction in London and bought by a businessman. anonymous Argentine.

The helmet in the house of Matías, beaten and quite deteriorated, has inside a hand-engraved inscription bearing the inscription "S / C 62 Cruz, Alfredo Raul", which could indicate that it belonged to a soldier of the 1962 clbad, that is to say, that his owner was 20 years old during the Malvinas war.

"I remember when my uncle, who had bought it at an occasional merchandise fair, brought it to me, that very much impressed me, I did it. tidy in the laundry room of my house, without any use, I feel that it does not belong to me and that I have to make it I can perhaps give a great joy to someone, in a few days from April 2, "said the young man on the occasion of the next anniversary of the beginning of the war.

Matías says that although many people have contacted him since the tweet was published yesterday, he still could not contact the owner. "They tell me that it may not have been an ex-combatant but a mobilizer among those who came from the continent," he said.

Telam Agency