The retired officer rejected the story of Kirchnerism that seeks to denigrate veterans and vindicated their combat performance.
The answer came from direct experience on the front lines. Retired colonel and war veteran Daniel Stella flatly rejected that speech and staunchly defended his men: “You have no idea what lions were my soldiers. Don't ever say that again because you offend them. They are proud of what they did.”
In the framework of the Day of the Veterans and the Memorial of the Falklands War, a strong cross on social networks once again called into question the repugnable story promoted for decades by Kirchnerism about the heroic Argentine soldiers who fought in 1982.
The exchange took place on the social network X, after a publication by the Undersecretary of University Policies of the government of Javier Milei, Alejandro Álvarez, who shared a message from the commander of the landing forces, Rear Admiral Carlos Alberto César Büsser, addressed to the troops on April 1, 1982.
Starting from that post, a Kirchner militant questioned the “sending of conscripts” to the war, in line with the Kirchner narrative that presents veterans as “unprepared young people forced to fight”.
In his message he said: “Well, they should have sent only career members of the armed forces and not conscripted soldiers with only a few days of training and who did not want to go to wars! Today they are our Heroes but it was a great injustice to send inexperienced conscripts, so young!! ”.
Stella was part of the 5th Infantry Regiment (RI5), the protagonist in Puerto Howard, on the Great Malvina Island, where the unit stood out for holding its position in conditions of isolation and extreme difficulty.
For years, Kirchnerism promoted a view focused on the victimization of heroic war veterans as conscript soldiers, portraying them as underprepared young men sent to an unequal war by an
illegitimate government.This narrative, strongly criticized by the ex-combatants themselves, sought to make professionalism, dedication and heroic actions in combat invisible.
