We were talking among ourselves, and people were saying that there were too many sick babies. It's the kiddies I'm thinking about. Julie is due to give birth to her second child in three weeks. There are a lot who don't, because they're still in the services and afraid of making a fuss. I can't put my hand on my heart and say it was the Gulf war - I don't know.
Nobody knows yet.
But there are too many people talking about the deformities. We were two healthy young people. We had no history of congenital illness. Darren went to the Gulf in October 1990 with the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars. For most of the war he and his regiment were far from the fighting, but for the last seven days they were at the front, at the Basra Road, where some of a heavy air bombardment in the final days of the war led to the death of thousands.