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In Port Stanley, the local museum proudly exhibits the Island's past. In pride of place, a special display dedicated to the 1982 Falkland War. There is also an old Victorian symphonium, which clicks and whirrs into life with the stirring Victorian song Soldiers of the Queen. This curious machine was wrecked in the conflict, and later painstakingly rebuilt - standing as a metaphor for these fiercely British islands.
20 years ago there were around eighteen hundred islanders in the Falklands. Every one of them from that time has a story to tell, they were all were touched in some way by the war.
About one hours drive along the new road from Stanley is Brookfield Farm. This is the home of the McPhee family. Trudi proudly reads out her Military Recommendation, awarded to her for incredible bravery, helping the British forces.
On the 11th June Trudi and other islanders took British troops and medical supplies over hazardous bog and jagged rock, in the dark, and under fire. There are many stories of islanders getting involved, few of them have been heard, even fewer have been acknowledged.
Tony McCullen was the manager of Goose Green at the time. He and his wife June had two children, one was only four months old. They were all locked up in the village hall together. "We were rounded up and told we were going to be interviewed. A soldier took one look at the baby and burst into tears - we never did get that interview".
But it was not only the islanders who were held prisoner. 1200 Argentineans were held in the sheep sheering sheds at Goose green after the surrender.
The young islanders are very aware of the islands recent past. Mines are a constant reminder and danger. "We just wish we could play on the beach".
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