Makeshift Bunkers Prepared by Some of Port Stanley's Residents

Dear Fellow Earthlings,

On the 21st of April 1982 the beleaguered Falkland Islanders received word that the Task Force was approximately 4,000 kilometers away -- much closer than the 12,650-odd kilometers they had been some 20 days earlier. The Argentine forces seemed to be expecting a land assault on Port Stanley. For this reason, the locals were being told to prepare for street-to-street, house-to-house fighting. Naively, the locals felt that they would be able to survive a serious clash between the landing forces of the British and the entrenched forces of the Argentines by constructing "bunkers" under their homes -- bunkers made of various scraps of building materials that were lying about here and there. As time would eventually tell, hostilities never truly decimated the homes and neighborhoods of 1982 Port Stanley as they would the countless villages of Iraq and Syria in the years 2015 through 2017. Still, at the time, preparing for pitched battles in the streets by digging holes, stocking away provisions, and fashioning other means of defense at least gave the Islanders a way to occupy themselves as they waited for the British Task Force's arrival. Steve Walker Earthsaver and Jingles Creator

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