The emotional letter of the children of a Falklands hero to rescue his father's helmet from an auction

The days pbad and the hours are exhausted, but the children of Miguel "Toto" Navarro do not lose the hope of finding the helmet that his father used in the Falklands War. The auction ends on Saturday and Veronica and Mauricio wrote an emotional letter to the seller.

In the text speaks of the anguish that lives in the family and is directed to Jonathan Colwil, the seller. "I'm the girl of 'Toto', the owner pilot of the auctioned helmet. Thank God he is not dead as it appears in the publicationbut it's a 77 year old grandfather. He is a respectable and admirable person, he fought on the islands from the beginning to the end of the war, he was taken prisoner and his plane is the one exposed to the museum. We saw the publication and we, his family, are very sad, "he begins.

In the letter, they appeal to the sensitivity of the seller and ask him to eliminate the publication. "This helmet belongs to you, has an owner, This is not a collector's item, it's a part of a person's life, my father's life. I badure you that all the Argentineans will thank you and it will be one of the most noble things you can do in your life, "he concludes.

Miguel Manuel "Toto" Navarro was the leader of the team Pucará and piloted an Alfa 528 during the war. At the moment of capitulation, they took all his belongings, including the helmet that bears his name and dreams of finding it in his hands. His plane is at the Norfolk & Sufolk Museum in Norwichen.

Veronica's father is very excited and can not speak. But he asked his children Do not buy the helmet because it has no monetary value, but only sentimental and would constitute an act of unfairness. The truth is that Veronica and Mauricio exhaust all the cases to be able to recover it. And despite the fact that the seller did not respond to the letter, he did not lose the hope.