76-01.
タイム 12 Apr 2002 (Fri） 21：58：45-
羨ましいです。誰かイギリスに知り合いがいないか真剣に考えてしまいました。せめてDVD化されないかしら・・・。
76-02.
JUN 12 Apr 2002 (Fri） 23：50：23-
私も、イギリス人に生まれたかった・・・・。
76-03.
ルーシー 13 Apr 2002 (Sat） 04：33：13-
私も！ それと、英語が出来たら良かった。コリンを知ってつくづくそう思います。学生時代にコリンと出会ってたら、猛勉強したのに･･･。
年代的には全然間に合わないんだけど。
76-04.
テレサ 13 Apr 2002 (Sat） 14：00：00-
タイム様、JUN様、ルーシー様、コメント有難うございます。 ほんと〜に！ また評判になって、DVDとかになったらいいんだけど〜。 あとは、公共放送さんに頼むとか？？ えっと、ロバート・ローレンスさんの話の記事、ご参考までに以下にペーストします。 和訳はしょってもいいすか？
ROBERT'S STORY I lost half my brain in the battle for Tumbledown..
they called me traitor.
By RUSSELL FINDLAY.
03/31/2002
Sunday Mail
P15
(c) 2002 Scottish Daily Record Sunday Mail Ltd
FALKLANDS 1982 - 2002; SCOTS GUARDS WARRIOR BATTLES TO WIN JUSTICE
FOR OUR VETERANS PEACE was just 90 minutes away when Lieut Robert
Lawrence was shot.
The Scots Guards officer took a bullet to the head fired by an
Argentinian sniper armed with a high-power rifle and a telescopic
sight. He lost 43 per cent of his brain in the battle for Mount
Tumbledown and was not expected to survive.
Now Robert, who was awarded the Military Cross, is heavily involved
in the campaign to highlight the plight of the forgotten heroes
of the Falklands.
He revealed: "A high-velocity bullet travelling at 3800
feet per second went in the back of my head and came out the
front.
"My brain was literally falling out of my head. My eyes
and ears had filled with blood but at the time I had no idea
how serious it was. It felt like a train had hit me and it is
extraordinary that I survived."
Now he accuses military top brass and politicians of turning
their back on the men wounded and permanently disabled fighting
for their country in the South Atlantic. The Falklands veteran
became a thorn in the side of Margaret
Thatcher's Government and Britain's military leaders. Actor Colin
Firth played the young officer in Tumbledown - the 1988 BBC drama
the Government tried to ban. Establishment figures were furious
at Robert's allegations. He claimed he was hidden from view at
a Thanksgiving Ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral to honour the
dead and injured. Robert said officers refused to let him attend
a victory parade - because the country wanted "victors,
not victims".
After years of silence and a seven-year spell in Australia, the
former pupil of Fettes in Edinburgh has decided to speak out.
Dad-of-four Robert, now 41, is married to former actress Marion
Sandberg, 42. He is still paralysed down parts of his left side.
He said yesterday: "It would be criminal if the BBC did
not re-run Tumbledown for the 20th anniversary and I'm tempted
to ask them if they will.
"The film showed an arrogant Robert Lawrence saying 'I can't
wait to go to war' and then the next scene is me sitting incontinent
in a wheelchair.
"This was not some Hollywood treatment of me - it was brutally
honest.
"I remember saying to my father, who is Establishment through
and through, that as the film was being made the authorities
were going to get really nasty. I knew it would happen, but he
thought I was being ridiculous because I had won the Military
Cross.
"I went to a regimental dinner. This old boy clocked me
and came across the room. He poked his finger in my chest and
said: 'Lawrence, isn't it? I can't decide if you should be hung
or knighted'.
"There were people who thought I was a traitor and some
who think I was used, but I was proud of what I did and proud
of being a soldier."
He revealed: "I had my phone tapped in 1988. That came out
around 1990 when Robin Robinson resigned as an officer from the
Joint Intelligence Committee in Downing Street. One reason he
resigned was because he was appalled to know of British subjects
being tapped without a warrant.
"When he was asked to name names, mine was one that he mentioned.
It was the Government of the day's extreme paranoia. We did our
job and that helped re-elect the Government, who then forgot
about us."
Robert now works for Strategic Consulting International alongside
fellow ex-Scots Guard Tim Spicer.
He said: "Before we left for the Falklands the US Government
told the British Government they had lost more people from suicide
since Vietnam than had been killed during the war. They suggested
they take psychiatrists with them to give a debriefing as soon
as possible after any action. The Royal Navy apparently refused
to allow the Army psychiatrists on to their ships. That alone
could have made a difference."
Robert now fears for the young Royal Marines who have been dispatched
to Afghanistan.
He said: "We're proud of our troops and we are right to
be - good luck to all of them. As soon as it was announced that
we were going to Afghanistan it was the same old 'we've got the
best troops in the world'. When they come back it would be nice
if they got the best treatment in the world."
