Tom Navin: Self - Combat Medical Technician, Royal Army Medical Corps

Quotes 

• [over scenes of relatives welcoming home the victorious soldiers from the war] 

  Tom Hardy - Narrator : The task force returned to a rapturous welcome. There was one unexpected cost of the victory. It is estimated that up to 28% of those involved in close-quarters action suffered some form of trauma.

  Tom Navin : I was violent. I was having fights with people. I was getting into trouble. Doing things that were just nonsensical. Things that I would never, ever dream of doing now or before. Totally changes your personality.

  Captain Jan Koops : 40 years on. It's a long time. But in many ways, it's no time. I've got those families with me now. I've got those guys with me as I'm sitting here talking to you. They've been with me every day of my life, and will be so. And then wherever we go at the end of life, I'll go and join them.

  Professor Helen Parr : It's the end of the British stiff upper lip. It would have been unthinkable to a previous generation of veterans to *talk* about their combat experiences. And in a way, it also indicates a breaking down of rigid class divisions.

  Sulle Alhaji : So I went back to the Falklands in 2002 and we looked out, the water was still, and we just started crying. It was uncontrollable crying, with our shoulders rocking up and down. I've never felt like that before in my life. The last day, I got up Mount Longdon where the sniper took a head shot at me. I just felt sorrow. I'm so proud of what we did. But the price of having PTSD is quite high price. But I wouldn't change it - it is what it is. And the thing is, I'm alive. There are 23 of my colleagues who are not alive. So I have to live my life for them, and I do it every day.

• Lieutenant Colonel Michael Rose : The truth certainly needs to be told about some of the things that went wrong. The Board of Inquiry into the loss of the Tristram and the Galahad turned out to have been a complete whitewash by saying it was necessary to open up a southern flank. Actually the opposite is true by 180 degrees. But that remains in the public record today that the southern flank was necessary to the retaking of Port Stanley. Wrong! It was not. It nearly cost us the war.

  Brigadier Julian Thompson : The order to attack and capture Goose Green - well, it slowed the whole thing down. I thought it was a stupid thing to do. We wouldn't have lost so many people. Maybe 'H' would be alive today.

  Tom Navin : These lessons *do* need to be learned so it doesn't happen again. It's not about catching people out and slagging people off, or anything like that. It's about making a difference in the future, isn't it.