A Malvinas veteran has already decided what he would do with his helmet | Chronic

The veteran of the Falklands war who was trying to recover the helmet "He saved the life at the Battle of Mount Longdon" and received on Friday an anonymous call with the promise to send it in the coming days of United Kingdom, said that he will leave it in the cemetery chapel where rest the remains of his parents in the city of Lanús, in Buenos Aires.

"I have the promise that the helmet will come back to my hands." Once that happens, after thanking and showing it to anyone who wanted to help him get it back, I took it to the burial vault of Lanús Cemetery, where rest my parents' remains. . "he said Jorge Alberto Altieri, the 56-year-old man seriously injured during the war with the United Kingdom in 1982.

Altieri expressed his emotion for the news that went through a "private number" of "Someone with an Argentine accent who has not identified himself"but that badured him that "With the next courier of the Embbady of Argentina in London, the helmet will reach me".

After the war, this man sold bags of garbage in the area of ​​the Planetarium, in the city of Buenos Aires, for the disability he contracted after losing his sight during the Battle of Monte Longdon, 37 years ago .

Today, a few days after realizing his dream of finding the helmet that prevented him from dying in the war, he thinks he is very close to executing this decision to offer to the memory of his parents "He managed to recover the islands".

"A lot of people wanted to help me and they even started organizing a collection to buy the helmet at around 520,000 pesos." I said no, it was too much, there was a lot of need to spend that money on the headphones, and that changed my life. "said Altieri, who said that a friend "He spoke with the British ambbadador to Argentina to call it a joke in bad taste".

The helmet was auctioned for the last time Thursday when the base was costing 10,500 pounds ($ 13,000 or 520,000 pesos), but the owner withdrew it and the next day the anonymous call to the veteran had place.

Altieri, who worked at PAMI and was receiving a retroactive pension in 1990, is part of the Argentinian Center for Malvinas Injured and wants the state to recognize those who have suffered from a disability and the relatives of the fallen soldiers. the war pensions but retroactive to 1982.

Former soldier struggles to recover his helmet for four yearswhen a friend warned him that he was attending an Internet auction in London. He recognized it through the photos showing the flare and tag that Altieri had placed with his name and his regiment inside the helmet. The veteran came to offer 1,000 pounds to the last owner, but years later, the helmet came up for auction with a base of 10,500 pounds until he left the ring last Thursday.