
Surviving the Falkands War
Witness History
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I Was Blown Up, and I Was Blind. I'm Forever Grateful
I didn't see any of my immediate family for about three and a half weeks after being blown up. They were told they had 55 minutes to do that by a gy malcolm jowett, who was the anistetist. The skin from simon's shoulders was used to make eyelids, and his nose was grafted on in a later operation. I've had between five and 700 units of blood and blood products over the years. Without their intervention, without the things they did for me, i wouldn't be here. He is forever gratefulmy my best friend, yorkey, on board the ship - he died in the incident. But there were people who did
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