Sad story, Bryn - I wonder if it'd be any different now? (The Falklands War was 1982, though.)

When I was first getting up to sing I worked up four or five songs, one of which was Between the Wars. I never really liked BtW - the tone's a bit grandiose, and the concluding line about moderation seems all wrong - so when the second Iraq War broke out I had slightly mixed feelings: appalling news, but at least it gave me a cast-iron excuse for not singing that song!