text: were you a british serviceman during the falklands campaign of 1982? if you were a servicemen, what memories do you have ? what service were you in ? did the conflict serve any real purpose ? if you have one overwelming memory of the conflict can you describe this ? short answer, yep. royal navy, submarines.  seeing battered surface ships return to port.  friends on hms conquerer (which sunk the belgrano) telling me that moments before, they were looking at belgrano through the periscope, then, the torpedoes hit belgrano (3 world war 2 vintage torpedoes) belgrano started to sink, great elation on board conqueror.  but.... within 5 mins there were grown men, in quiet corners of the submarine, sobbing...when they realised what they had done, and thought of the guys who had been killed, and thier families. even tough guys have hearts. general submarine routine is leave harbour, 24 hours later, dive. two months later, surface. 24 hours later, back in harbour.....any takers???