Ronnie Quinn was a conscript during Malvinas war.
Ronnie Quinn was a conscript in the Military Service. Ronnie went to the Malvinas war. During this event, he translated all the messages that the British soldiers said. But his true work was to know the latitude and longitude of where the attackers were. For him it was a privilege to be a soldier and save his country, but he said: “I was busy trying to survive”
“I was busy trying to survive”
Ronnie’s mother was Irish and she was alive when her son went to the war. Ronnie Quinn’s father died when Ronnie was 9 years old. So when he knew that he had to go, he was 16 years old; his mother was in charge of him. His mother said that he had to go and save his country.
Quinn lived in Buenos Aires, and he thought that he was not going because he was very far from Malvinas, but he had to go. Ronnie was really bad as a soldier, so the Captain asked Ronnie if he wanted to be a translator.
During the war he was busy trying to survive. He wanted to be at home, and he did not care about the results of the battle. Life in the Malvinas was really bad, the conditions of life were really poor. “We took a shower twice”, Ronnie told us.
Finally, the war ended, and Ronnie went home. His life changed. He started appreciating everything he received. Also, he learned that we all have to be thankful fot everything in life because from one day to another everything may change.
He wrote all his feelings on a paper. He was not a good author so he went to a course to learn how to write. Years passed and he was prepared to write a great story of Malvinas war. The name of the book is "The Rare Privilege". This book is his personal opinion of the war. One part of the story is real and one is fiction.
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