{"id":56568,"date":"2022-06-14T09:34:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T08:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/?p=56568"},"modified":"2022-06-15T14:16:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:16:30","slug":"forty-year-anniversary-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/forty-year-anniversary-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Forty year anniversary of the end of the Falklands War remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Today we mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom, <strong>which claimed the lives of 255 British service men and women<\/strong> during the ten-week conflict. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"block_62a844d9a3997\" class=\"councillor-quote align-right other has-white-color has-black-background-color grid-x\">\r\n\t<blockquote class=\"councillor-quote-blockquote medium-auto small-12 cell\">\r\n                    <div class=\"councillor-quote-title\"><p>Councillor Roger Croad, Devon County Council\u2019s Armed Forces Lead Member and former member of the Armed Forces, said:<\/p><\/div>\r\n        \t\t<div class=\"councillor-quote-text\"><p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">&#8220;It is with great respect that I look back to that time and remember friends and colleagues around me. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">\u201cForty years is a long time, yet that experience shaped the lives for those service men and women who returned. And of those who didn&#8217;t return, we remember. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">&#8220;Devon has a long and proud association with the Armed Forces. And with a different war, waging in Europe, we remain committed to the ongoing support for service personnel, reservists, veterans and military families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">\u201cOn this anniversary of the end of the Falklands campaign, we remember those who fought and the impact that it had not just on service men and women, but also on their families.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t<\/blockquote>\r\n        <div class=\"councillor-quote-aside medium-auto small-12 cell\">\r\n\t<figure class=\"councillor-quote-image grid-x\">\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"small-6 cell medium-12\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/06\/Cllr-Roger-Croad.jpg\" alt=\"Cllr Roger Croad\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\r\n        <figcaption class=\"councillor-quote-description small-6 cell medium-12\" >\r\n            \t        Cllr Roger Croad, Devon County Council\u2019s Armed Forces Lead Member            <\/figure>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    \r\n    <\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":56620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-dcc-homepage"],"acf":[],"featured_image":{"ID":56620,"title":"Army boots","alt":"person wearing army uniform. 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