Exciting: an Argentine soldier has recovered the helmet that saved him from the Falklands war

A Falklands war veteran seeking to recover the helmet that saved his life during the bloody Battle of Mount Longdon received an anonymous call Friday with the promise to send it to him in the coming days from the UK. And yesterday, with the certainty that this precious object will be in his hands again, the ex-fighter claimed that he would drop it in the cemetery chapel where the remains of his parents rest in the city of Lanús, in Buenos Aires.

"I have the promise that the helmet will come back to me.After that will happen, and after thanking and showing to all those who would help me to get it back, I will take it to the vault of the Lanús Cemetery, "said Jorge Alberto Altieri, 56, who lost an eye during the match. war.

Altieri expressed his emotion at the news that came across a "private number" of "someone with an Argentine accent who did not identify himself", but who badured him: " with the next courier of the embbady of Argentina in London, the helmet is going to reach my hands, "he said. After the war, the man had to sell garbage bags in the planetarium area, in the city of Buenos Aires, because of the disability that has accompanied it since then.

Now, soon after realizing his dream of finding the helmet that prevented him from dying in the war, he felt he was about to make this decision a reality: to offer to his parents' memory what he could do to recover "the islands".

"Many people wanted to help me and they even started organizing a fundraiser and buying the helmet, which had been quoted at 520,000 pesos at an auction on e-Bay. I said no, that it was too much, that there was a lot of need to spend that money on the headphones, but that call came and changed my life, "Altieri said. And clarified: "A friend spoke with the ambbadador of England in Argentina to dismiss it as a joke in bad taste."

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

Altieri receives a retroactive pension until 1990 and asks the state to recognize people who have received a disability pension but retroactive to 1982.

Source: The Mañana de Neuquén