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Argentine Cemetery
On the approach to Goose Green from Stanley is the well-kept Argentine cemetery. There's something very moving about this simple memorial to the loss of life from the futile Falklands War. Simple white crosses mark the 234 graves; many of them unmarked because conscripts did not wear identification tags, or else their comrades took them to give to relatives.
Other graves carry moving memorials to young men who would not be returning to their 'mama, papa' or their hermanos (brothers) or hermanas (sisters).
A little further down the road there's a small memorial to three British soldiers close to the road, and a little further back another one marking where 'H' Jones, the B…
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