Falkland Islanders, vets recall Argentina's surrender

Saturday, June 15, 2002

STANLEY, Falkland Islands -- Several hundred Falkland Islanders and Britain's military veterans remembered their dead Friday, 20 years after Britain routed Argentina in a war that kept this remote South Atlantic archipelago British and embittered toward its nearest neighbor.

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