THE heavy thump of an Argentine army boot kicking in the wooden front door of her family's remote farmhouse sent 12-year-old Lisa Watson scurrying downstairs.
The seventh generation Falkland Islander had just watched in disgust from a bedroom window as Argentine soldiers posed for photos with six cuffed and imprisoned Royal Marines like they were hunting trophies.Now it was freckled-faced Lisa's turn to stare down the barrel of an Argentine gun.
"Up against the wall," screamed Major Patricio Dowling to the terrified family.
It was just three days after the 1982 invasion of Lisa's beloved islands by whisky-soaked General Leopoldo Galtieri's troops. Full Read
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