ABSTRACT
The most recent figures estimate that since the war almost 300 veterans have committed suicide. In addition, according to figures from a September 1996 survey, out of 4,000 veterans living in Buenos Aires and its outskirts, 851 are unemployed.2 It is hard to conceive of more forcible evidence to back up my interpretation: that for its participants, the Malvinas War remains an unresolved double trauma of, first, the war itself and, second, the shock of post-war return, above all due to the gulf between social and individual myths.
