the long journey home was on the horizon. only now was the cost of the conflict becoming clear to those in the south atlantic and back home. first paragraph to your mum and dad, sad letter to write, because if you don't already know, so far as missing, presumed dead... i was looking for, probably, my best friend for days and days and days after, so we didn't know who had survived and who had died. my parents were told, mistakenly, that i was missing, presumed dead. it took several days, really, for the smoke of war, you know, to clear and for people to find out, to gather the information to find out actually who was alive and who was dead. yes, my parents went through hell,