The Argentine flag will be deployed to the Malvinas during a new visit of relatives on the graves of identified soldiers

The Argentine flag will be redeployed to the Falkland Islands. Perhaps this represents one of the big novelties and one of the most powerful symbols of the second visit of relatives on the graves of newly identified people in the Darwin Cemetery. Wednesday, March 13 at noon, about 39 relatives will visit the graves of the 20 new soldiers identified during the past year.. An Argentine military march will also be announced, which was not the case during the first visit, in March 2018, which will be led by veteran Omar Tabárez.

As was the case on March 26 of the previous year, a group of parents will have the opportunity to travel to Darwin Cemetery to accompany the grave where their loved ones, who lost their lives during the 1982 war, are. . These 39 people who will go to Darwin can, for the first time in 37 years, accompany the exact place where the remains of their family rest. The duel will begin to close after decades of hope, resignation and even adoption of anonymous graves during previous visits to the island.

The trip, which will be done in a private plane of the company Andes, It was again financed by Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, by Eduardo Eurnekian. Likewise, this historic event was organized by the National Secretariat for Human Rights, in charge of the Claudio Avruj and by Chancery. In the meantime, he benefited from the organizational support of the RENAPER staff and went to the coordination of the Commission for Families of the Disappeared in Malvinas, essential actors in the realization of the act.

During the afternoon of today, 39 family members will arrive from different provinces of Argentina in a hotel in the capital. Around two in the morning they will be picked up by buses and transferred to Ezeiza airport. Shortly after 4:30 pm, it is estimated that The private flight will depart for the Mount Pleasant Military Airport, where it will arrive after a three-and-a-half hour commute.

Relatives of the 20 soldiers identified during the last year will not be the only ones to participate in the trip. This will also be done by 13 family members who, at the time, had submitted their DNA samples to the forensic experts of the Humanitarian Project Plan and until now, no positive conclusion could be given. between the remains. In Darwin's cemetery, there are only 12 bodies of unidentified Argentine soldiers.

A group of journalists and authorities, as well as other absolute protagonists of this historic event, will also be part of the delegation: British army Geoffrey Cardozo, his Argentine counterpart Julio Aro and journalist Gabriela Cociffi, who were at the time the great promoters of the process of identifying the bodies that rested under the plate "Argentine soldier only known to God".

As a representative of Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, Roberto Curilovic, veteran of the Malvinas and current leader of the company, will attend the meeting.

This second visit will have particularities compared to that of March 26, 2018. On this occasion, members of about 90 families had to be displaced. This time, they will only be family members of 20 identified soldiers, less than a quarter. This will generate a little oxygen in the organizational aspect and times.

In addition, the new visit will testify to improved relations between the authorities of the Falkland Islands and Argentina. For the first time and thanks to the islanders' authorization, Relatives of identified soldiers may pose in the group photo with an Argentine flag displayed at Darwin's graveyard.

In addition, an Argentine soldier will also have the opportunity to hit a national march in all the islands, which did not happen during the first visit. This is perhaps one of the most moving moments of the day when, around 11:20 in the morning, Omar Tabarez sounds with his trumpet the chords of "Silencio Militar", a touch of a little over two minutes that move all the badistants.

The history of Tabárez is more than peculiar. He traveled in 1982 to the Falklands War with only 19 years old and as a trumpet player he was the first musician of the 25th Regiment. his trumpet had been left in the hands of the English soldier Tony Banks.

After keeping the instrument for 30 years in a private museum, the soldier himself was able to contact Tabárez to return it to him. This happened in the afternoon of June 14, 2010.

After the performance of Tabárez, a bagpiper of the Scottish Guard (Royal Regiment of Scotland) will perform the British song "Lament". There will also be a religious ceremony led by Father Ponciano Acosta, then floral offerings will be offered.

The Family Commission will take white cloth flowers (synthetic flowers are carried, because in transfers, you can not take organic matter and the climate of the islands prevents culture) and a rosary to each family to place it in the grave of the fallen soldier. Two crowns will also be distributed: one for the San Carlos cemetery, where the bodies of fallen British soldiers rest, and another for the Darwin cemetery.

As with the first visit, the encounter with the gravestones of the dead will be an emotional seism for most of the traveling family members. For that, the 39 relatives will be badisted by two psychologists from the Ulloa center, two doctors and two representatives of the International Red Cross. Two representatives of the Argentinean forensic anthropology team will also be part of the delegation. The same thing will happen with three veterans who for years participated in the project to identify fallen soldiers.

The ceremony will last only about two hours, but it will be enough for these 20 families to close a scar that has remained open for nearly 40 years. This encounter with the tombstone written with a name will be a unique, inexplicable and intimate moment for families. These people who for decades have endured pain under the veil of mystery, incognito and a constant struggle against despair.