Posted on 08/14/2015 12:04:10 PM PDT by Kaslin
(“We won the war!” Raul Castro, reacting to President Obama’s announcement, Dec. 20, 2014.)
(“The US and Cuba are no longer enemies or rivals but neighbors. And it is time to let the world know that, we wish each other well.” Sec. of State John Kerry as the U.S. flag was raised in Havana, Aug, 14, 2015.)
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“I see that the flagpole still stands,” said a choked-up Gen. Douglas Mc Arthur on March 2, 1945 as he entered devastated but liberated Corregidor. “Have our troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down. “
A U.S. Army sergeant named Manuel Perez-Garcia was on Luzon during that victorious flag-raising. Perez-Garcia was born in Cuba but immigrated to the U.S. after Pearl Harbor to join the U.S. Army and volunteer for combat. At the time of that flag-raising he’d fought almost constantly for 14 months, through New Guinea and the southern Philippines. His purple hearts, Bronze Star and Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster said something about his role in that victory for freedom. We can only imagine how he felt when he finally saw his beloved stars and stripes fluttering over Corregidor.
Upon the Communist invasion of South Korea in June of 1950, Manuel Perez-Garcia rallied to the U.S. colors again, volunteering for the U.S. army again at age 41. It took a gracious letter from President Harry Truman himself to explain that by U.S. law Manuel was slightly overaged but mostly that, “You, sir, have served well above and beyond your duty to the nation. You’ve written a brilliant page in service to this country.”
Mr Perez-Garcia’s son, Jorge, however was the right age for battle in Korea and stepped to the fore. He joined the U.S. army, made sergeant and died from a hail of Communist bullets while leading his men in Korea on May 4th 1952.
When Perez Garcia was 51 years old the Castro brothers and Che Guevara were busily converting his native country into a Soviet satrapy riddled with prison camps and mass graves. So Manuel volunteered for combat again. Like most of his Cuban Band of Brothers he fought to his very last bullet, inflicting casualties of 20 to 1 against his Soviet armed and led enemies. That bitter and bloody battleground is now known as The Bay of Pigs.
When the smoke cleared and their ammo had been expended to the very last bullet, when a hundred of them lay dead and hundreds more wounded, after their very mortars and machine gun barrel had almost melted from their furious rates of fire, after three days of relentless battle, barely 1,400 Cuban freedom-fighters -- without air support (from the U.S. Carriers just offshore) and without a single supporting shot by naval artillery (from U.S. cruisers and destroyers poised just offshore) -- had squared off against 21,000 Castro troops, his entire air force and squadrons of Soviet tanks. The Cuban freedom-fighters inflicted casualties of 20 to 1 against their Soviet-armed and led enemies. But to hear Castro's echo chambers in the mainstream media, think-tanks and academia, Fidel was the plucky David and the betrayed invaders the bumbling Goliath!
The battle was over in three days, but the heroism was not.
Now came almost two years in Castro's dungeons for Mr Perez-Garcia and his captured Band of Brothers, complete with the psychological torture that always accompanies communist incarceration. During these months in Castro's dungeons, the freedom-fighters lived under a daily firing squad-death sentence.
Escaping that sentence would have been easy, as Castro’s KGB-trained torturers “explained” almost daily: simply sign the little paper confessing they were “mercenaries of the Yankee imperialists” or go on record denouncing the U.S. In other words: publicly spit on the U.S. flag. In other words, the same stunt half of Hollywood pulls for the sake of publicity, these men could have pulled to save their lives.
Given these freedom-fighters recent betrayal, you’d think Castro had a cakewalk here, right?
None buckled. None even wobbled. None of these “men” (actually, some were as young as Audie Murphy had been upon trying to enlist in 1941) signed the document--nor uttered a word against the Stars and Stripes.
And I stress: these men were convinced that going on record trashing the U.S. would save their lives. After all, during these very months Che Guevara’s firing squads were murdering hundreds of bound and gagged Cubans weekly, and for “crimes” much less offensive than those of these men and boys.
The Cuban freedom-fighters stood tall, proud, defiant, and solidly with their commander, even sparring with Castro himself during their televised Stalinist show trials. "We will die with dignity!" snapped freedom-fighter commander Erneido Oliva at the furious Castroites again, and again, and again. To Castroites, such an attitude not only enrages but baffles.
Manuel Perez-Garcia passed away in Miami at the tender age of 102 in 2011. Today his ashes along with those of his son rest in Arlington. Maybe he’s lucky not to witness his beloved flag raised in Castro’s Havana, within walking distance of political prisons and torture chambers, a smirking Che Guevara mocking it from banners and murals in every direction.
For Manuel Perez-Garcia and his Band of Brothers that flag symbolized victory and freedom. In Havana today it symbolizes U.S. surrender to the Stalinist cowards who destroyed and defiled their homeland, and craved to nuke their adopted one.
"When at the Bay of Pigs we were abandoned, we were sad,” says Che Guevara’s captor Felix Rodriguez, who today serves as the President of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association. “And now we feel abandoned again, betrayed by the President."
One humiliation after another it seems.
I was in the USAF in the days of the Castro take over. We were training Cuban pilots at that time and the students were recalled to Havana never to be seen or heard from again. Thats Marxism for you.
Exactly
The Marine Band played the Cuban National Anthem at the ceremony. The humiliation is complete.
What did we get in return? Nothing..
Still granting asylum to Cubans who reach USA soil?
Probably not for long. When will we get the cop killer aunt of Tupac who lives there?
Wanna bet that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is willing to send it to him no questions asked?
+What did we get in return? Nothing..+
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Now to be fair, yesterday papa fidel did demand untold millions in reparations for the embargo. I am sure premier obamao is getting the US checkbook ready to write fidel a check on the chinese account for a hundred billion or so.
Obama will give them Gitmo as reparations as soon as he gives the last terrorists amnesty.
Is there any enemy of the United States, freedom and democracy that this bunch won’t suck up to?
Bam’s ultimate goal is to give the commies Gitmo. But he could have a difficult time if he tries.
Democrats Obama and Kerry praising Cuba = The Bray of Pricks
Hanoi John is reliving now in Cuba how much he enjoyed betraying U.S. while illegally meeting with the North Vietnam leaders in Paris while they were killing and torturing Americans heroes fighting in Vietnam.
“Those who ignore history are dammed to repeat it” George Santayana.
Those who expect changes in Cuba, China still is a repressive Communist regime even after adopting economic capitalism. In Russia the more it changes, the more it remains the same, Communists changed names but not their principles. The Russian bear has invaded Ukraine and is menacing to invade the Baltic countries in spite that they are part of NATO. Raul Castro assured to the useful idiots that in Cuba Communism is irreversible and increased the repression against the Cuban dissidents.
In May 2001 Fidel Castro during his visit to Iran addressed the Iranian students at University of Tehran with words that are chilling when read in light of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
According to news reports, during the visit Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei “assured Castro that Iran and Cuba can defeat the U.S. hand in hand,” to which Castro agreed, adding that America was “extremely weak today,” and that “we are today eyewitness to their weakness, as their close neighbors.”
At Tehran University he stated to the thunderous applause of students and faculty, (AFP, May 10, 2001) proudly proclaimed that “Iran and Cuba reached the conclusion that together they can tear down the United States.” (IPS, May 10, 2001)
As an irony of history the words of Fidel Castro in May 2001 were prophetic, in the short period of 14 years, and at the time, we are witnessing an American president that dishonored the United States by unconditionally surrender to the two main sponsors of terrorist in the world, Iran and Cuba. Thanks to Obama’s treason, the American taxpayers will play the role of sugar daddy to keep afloat the Cuban Stalinist regime, a role played before by the Soviet Union and Venezuela that brought both of them to their bankruptcy.
Cuba we have been a brutal Stalinist regime frozen in time for over 56 years. Castro’s have killed and imprisoned more Cubans that during the worst of the Stalin terror era in relation to its population.
It is a fact that Castro has sent more than 20,000 Cubans to death at the “paredón” (firing squads) and that he is responsible for the death at sea of more than 40,000 men, women and children who fled the Cuban hell in fragile makeshift rafts preferring certain death at the Florida Straits rather than continue living in slavery. Castro is also responsible for the imprisonment and torture of over 500,000 Cubans (including children) during his 56 years of tyranny.
According to the best world authority in Cuba’s History, English scholar Hugh Thomas, referring to the Cuban tragedy, (The Spectator, 7/12/1986) he affirmed that: “The comparison must be with the account of Nazi concentration camps. Although there are yet no gas chambers in Cuba, there have been experiments of a criminal biological type designed to see how far an individual can survive starvation, beating, solitary confinement, and many various kinds of ill treatment. Valladares’ account of working in a stone quarry is not dissimilar to, and no more humane than, the many accounts extant of ‘life’ in Manthausen. Nor should one forget that the brutalities in Nazi Germany lasted at most 12 years and the gross cruelties in the Auschwitz camp continue for four years.”
It is despicable that Obama embraced and legitimized the most brutal regime in the history of this hemisphere, and swore mortal enemy of U.S. that tried to nuke our cities and spread communist terrorism all around Latin America and Africa.
Bammy and Kerry are clueless. The Castros are crowing about their “victory.” And absolutely nothing will change for the Cuban people living in that hell hole.
Today’s Democrats are just evil.
Today’s Democrats are just evil.
Obama and Hanoi John knows exactly what are they doing, they are keeping afloat their comrades in Cuba over half a century.
Those who, as Geraldo Rivera, wonder why U.S. keeps diplomatic relations with African despots, they never were a direct menace to U.S. while the Castro brothers and Che Guevara tried to nuke New York and Washington during the October 1962 Missile Crisis, or tried to Macy’s, Bloomingdale and New York Central Station that would have killed many more Americans than the 9/11 Islamic attack.
Obama and Hanoi John knows exactly what are they doing, they are keeping afloat their comrades in Cuba over half a century.
Those who, as Geraldo Rivera, wonder why U.S. keeps diplomatic relations with African despots. They never were a direct menace to U.S. while the Castro brothers and Che Guevara tried to nuke New York and Washington during the October 1962 Missile Crisis, or tried to Macy’s, Bloomingdale and New York Central Station that would have killed many more Americans than the 9/11 Islamic attack.
BLACK FRIDAY GREETING FROM FIDEL AND CHE
BY Humberto fontova
Town Hall Nov 28, 2011
Intrepid terrorists could get maximum bang for their buck on “Black Friday.” A few well-placed bombs and the carnage would easily shame 9/11’s.
Macy’s, for instance, serves tens of thousands of shoppers that one day. If nothing else, the theme would make for a hair-raising Hollywood drama or disaster blockbuster. Credibility might be a problem, however. After all, even the most bloodthirsty and psychopathic of terrorists seek government or semi-military targets: The Pentagon, The U.S.S. Cole, Marine barracks in Lebanon, embassies in Kenya, Saudi Arabia, etc. Typecasting one who craved massive civilian carnage for the malicious sake of massive civilian carnage might edge the movie over into a James Bondor Austin Powers comedy genre.
But he has to give them Gitmo back, you see? Because that's the only way he can get the major AQ perps still impounded there onto U.S. soil so they can be sprung by the U.S. defense bar and returned triumphant to the Middle East to rejoin their ISIS/Taliban/AQ buddies and drag American corpses in the street in celebration.
That's the real play being made here.
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