Back 37 years after the war

Hugs, tears and excitement appeared spontaneously, after 37 years, reliving the days spent in communion during the Falklands War.
The protagonists of this loving act were a Corrientes-born continental soldier who returned to Viedma this fall to visit the family who sponsored her in 1982 and showed her restraint while awaiting her turn. To go to fight.
Santiago Villalba, born in Ituzaingó, was 19 years old in 1982. He had finished his military service and a telegram announced to him bad news: he had to join the artillery group 3 of Paso de los Libres, a few days after The Argentine army had made its decision to storm Stanley Port.
In the early days of April 1982, an outpost of his companions, headed by Colonel Martin Balza, was close to what was later called Puerto Argentino. After military silence, his family believed that he was behind a canyon in the Falklands tundra, but remained in Viedma.
"We stumbled here because we had gone to the Malvinas, at least that's what the telegram sent to my family, but when we arrived in Bahía Blanca, they informed us that we had to wait in an improvised fortress of the spa El Cóndor, because the islands were saturated with troops, "said the ex-soldier who, returning to civilian life, was working in an electricity company, was married and two children.
The bosses announced that the intermediate point was an improvised fortress of the El Cóndor seaside resort. While they were guarding at different points of the Comarca Viedma-Patagones; many young people were housed on weekends in family houses. Thus, among the Franks, they savored a hot pasta dish in a house far from the swagger of the sergeants.
Santiago had not seen Ansola for 37 years, the family that opened the doors of his house. A few days ago, he visited them with his wife Liliana and his in-laws. He visited the places where he stood guard and shared pleasant moments with the family whose children he met when they were children.
Do not forget that "because of his northerner status," we suffered a lot from the cold weather because they equipped us with a "whaleboat" and a rowing boat. In the evening, we went around in a blanket and the relay arrived every hour to avoid a breakdown, "he says.
Carlos interrupts to recall the meeting on a central square where boys waited for a family to take pity on them. "We took two other boys, also from Corrientes, but Susana is the one who kept in touch (only with Santiago) and that's only now that we find ourselves".
At the meeting, Santiago thought it was "exciting to see Carlitos and Susana after so much time, we cried together, I'm happy to return to this city where I discovered that everything was changing" Villalba said. He kisses his friends and shows that in the midst of the destructive power brought about by the war, the affection has left its mark.

The history of the Falklands makes poetry and stories

"The war in me" is called the book written by the history professor Diego Suárez, the actor Darío Altomaro, the professor of literature Ailín Muchella and the psychiatrist Juan José Servidio, about 17 testimonials of 39 Falkland veterans currently residing in the area. The peculiarity is that all true stories are written fiction, whether in poetry, stories, micro stories or even a play.
"We wanted to make a book about the Falklands War, but in reality, the book was much deeper.This is not a Malvinas war book, it's a book of the people who was at Malvinas, men crossed by the war, men who had a past, who had this present in the war and who were later to return, families who accompanied them, always present.Next, the book and the name "The war in me" have more to do with "me" than with the war, with those human beings that, "summarized Suárez at a press conference.
This is a 1500-pound draw, 80% financed by the municipality of Plottier and 20% by the Neuquén War Veterans Center.
"The idea is to start a malvinization and we want the Falklands to stop being an event and be organized throughout the year," said Herving Vásquez, protagonist of the book and current president. from the Veterans Center.