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June 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
An officer with the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards, Capt Lawrence, then a 21-year
old lieutenant, led the night-time assault at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown
during the final hours of hostilities in June 1982.
Just hours before the ceasefire on 14 June, as British troops reached
Tumbledown’s summit, he was shot in the head by an Argentine sniper, and
left for dead on the mountain top.
Capt Lawrence, who lost more than 40 per cent of his brain from the injury and
was partially paralysed down the left side of his body, was awarded the
Military Cross for his bravery.
He was medically discharged from the Army, retiring with the rank of captain,
but received no compensation from the government for his injuries, instead
relying on a charitable donation from the South Atlantic Fund, established
by private donors to help injured veterans and families who lost relatives
during the conflict.
Tumbledown depicts Capt Lawrence’s return to civilian life and his struggles
to adjust to his new disability.
It also highlights the impact of the conflict and his recovery on his friends
and family and his feelings of abandonment and bitterness as he tries to
cope with his wounds, with little help from the government.
Capt Lawrence, 51, who walks with a limp and has no use of his left arm, was
diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, (PTSD) in 1995 – 13 years
after the conflict.
He now runs the Veteran’s Coalition Global Adventure Plus, a charity which
helps to rehabilitate ex-servicemen through foreign expeditions.
He said: “Going to war, the expectation was that if you put your life on the
line for your country, your country would sure as hell look after you, but I
discovered that wasn’t the case.
“We still have huge numbers of personnel sacrificing their lives and aspects
of their lives every day in ongoing conflict. We need to continue the debate
as to why and how we help these guys.
“Fighting in a war casts a long shadow. It can take up to 15 years for a
soldier to come and request help for PTSD, so we will continue having this
problem in potentially much larger numbers for many years to come.”
Following the 30th anniversary of the conflict this year, the theatre
production, based on the original drama written by the playwright and former
soldier, Charles Wood, will be staged next year.
It is being produced by Brendan Riding, 34, a former sergeant with the Royal
Military Police, who served in Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan before
moving into theatre.
He said: “We wanted to bring something to the stage exploring the problems,
whether psychological or physical, that soldiers face when returning from
war.
“Robert’s story is timeless. Staged under the real-time backdrop of
Afghanistan and Iraq, it is clear to see the parallels faced by the soldiers
who have returned home injured from these current conflicts and the problems
Robert faced back in 1982. The problems surface whenever and wherever
conflict occurs.”
The resurrection of Tumbledown is likely to reignite debate surrounding the
care of wounded veterans.
The military covenant, an agreement under which the state pledges a duty of
care toward its military personnel, is a long established tradition, but it
has never been enshrined in law and there is concern that Britain’s soldiers
are not receiving the health care, housing or pay they deserve.
Government data published by the National Audit Office, compiled from Ministry
of Defence records, has suggested that only one soldier in a thousand
suffers from PTSD.
But recent research produced by the Centre for Medical Health Defence at Kings
College in London found that 40 out of 1,000 service personnel were
suffering from the condition, with the figure rising to 70 out of a 1,000
for those serving in a combat zone.
The veterans’ mental health charity Combat Stress also estimates that more
than 50,000 members of the armed forces could develop mental health problems
in the future.
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