Falklands : TONY BANKS GREETED WITH ENTHUSIASM AT 1982 MEMORIAL
Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network (Juanita Brock) 30.01.2010 (Article Archived on 13.02.2010)
Unlike his experience on a terraced street in Liverpool, Tony Banks was greeted with warm enthusiasm when he completed his yomp from San Carlos to Stanley via Goose Green.
Photo © J. Brock (FINN) - Tony Banks just back from his yomp from San Carlos via Goose Green remembers his fallen comrades.
TONY BANKS GREETED WITH ENTHUSIASM AT 1982 MEMORIAL
By J. Brock (FINN)
Unlike his experience on a terraced street in Liverpool, Tony Banks was greeted with warm enthusiasm when he completed his yomp from San Carlos to Stanley via Goose Green.
Mr Banks, spurred on by his near-stoning in Liverpool and a meeting with a former Iraq Veteran suffering from PTSD took the decision to come to the Falklands to lay his own ghosts to rest as a result of his experiences here in 1982 when he was a serving Para.
When he saw the well-wishers Mr Banks thanked them for coming to greet him and said it was important for him as well as those suffering mental ill health as a result of conflict to be here in the Falklands.
While in the Islands, Mr Banks will participate in several activities with veterans of the 1982 Conflict with Argentina. Mr Banks will stay at Liberty Lodge while he is in Stanley.
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