Or the Falklands....
Talk to Margaret Thatcher about "wars that shouldn't be fought"....

Thatcher at Falklands commemoration

Jun 17 2007

Hundreds of Falklands veterans are due to join former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, PM Tony Blair and the Prince of Wales for a major event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict.

The sights, sounds and emotions of the campaign will be evoked during a televised memorial featuring the recollections of servicemen and their families.

Among the guests in Horse Guards Parade will be Chancellor Gordon Brown, Defence Secretary Des Browne, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke of York, who is a veteran of the 1982 conflict.

At the same time in the Falklands, islanders will be joined by the Earl of Wessex and Armed Forces minister Adam Ingram for a poignant service.


http://icnorthlondononline.icnetwork.co.uk/news/tm_head...06484-name_page.html

Falklands' Unhappy Anniversary
By David Hambling EmailJune 24, 2007 | 9:11:00 AMCategories: History Lesson

Last week in Britain we had the parades, the flypasts and the media coverage of the 25th anniversary of the end of the Falklands conflict. But in Argentina there is a more sombre cast over the proceedings, one that was captured by a BBC radio documentary, Malvinas: The Open Wound .

To them, the Falklands (or Malvinas if you're Argentinean) conflict was 'our Vietnam'. On the Argentine side it was fought largely by teenage conscripts who were so badly and equipped that some of them reportedly died from the lack of cold weather gear rather than enemy action.

In the immediate aftermath of the disastrous conflict, the veterans were forbidden to speak about it. Some did not get recognition until the twentieth anniversary in 2002, when two thousand were awarded medals. Malvinas veterans have a high suicide rate (like their British counterparts) -- both sides claim that there have been more suicides than battlefield deaths.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/falklands-war-1.html

I wonder just how many Country Media will call it their USA Vietnam War or Conflict when none of them were there if they bothered to look there is about 20 diffrent stories about the Desota Insident.