Returned to the Falklands after 44 years and fulfilled the promise at the grave of the first fallen soldier

After 44 years, Eduardo Canitrot returned to the Falkland Islands. The former combatant of Logistics Battalion 10, now president of the Puerto Argentino Veterans Association of Pinamar, traveled with his daughter and visited the sites he still remembered from 1982.

During his stay, he displayed an Argentine flag at various points across the territory. Images of those moments went viral on social media, but the main objective of the trip was different: to reach the Darwin cemetery.

There, in front of the cross that commemorates frigate captain Pedro Edgardo Giachino, the first Argentine to fall during the landing on April 2, 1982, Canitrot spoke the words he had waited decades to say. “I came, Pedro, as I promised you,” he said.

The journey also took him to Monte Harriet. Under the strong winds of the islands, he raised the flag again and left another phrase recorded in the videos: “My flag does not kneel before anyone.”

The foxhole and the days of combat

Canitrot passed through Pradera del Ganso and Monte Kent, two places closely linked to the conflict. One of the most emotional moments occurred when he managed to identify the area where he had built a foxhole during the war.

As he recalled, he stayed there for 67 days with another soldier, exposed to the cold and the harsh conditions faced by Argentine troops in the South Atlantic.

The trip meant for him closing a debt that had been open since 1982: returning to the place where he fought and fulfilling, in front of Giachino's grave, that promise made 44 years ago.

With the Argentine flag as his companion, the veteran honored those who fought and those who did not return. His return was documented in several videos that generated numerous messages of recognition.

A personal and collective tribute

The figure of Pedro Edgardo Giachino runs through the narrative. Considered the first Argentine fallen in the Falklands War, his grave in Darwin became the final point of a promise that Canitrot kept alive for more than four decades.

The veteran not only visited the combat scenes. He brought the flag with him and displayed it at each significant stop, turning the trip into an act of personal and collective memory.