Sickening.
Kennedy was a folking pig
At first it wasn't known if the men were dead or captured.
The Kennedys wanted them dead, to not have another Gary Powers incident. Bobby said to CIA officer Richard Bissell at the time, "Those American pilots had better g*****ned well be dead."
This person for whom bridges, hospitals and airports are now named was too busy trying to pick out which bimbo he was going to tap next.
Years before, Adm. Burke sailed thousands of miles to smash his nation’s enemies at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Now he was Chief of Naval Operations and stood aghast as new enemies were being given a sanctuary 90 miles away! The fighting admiral was livid.
They say his face was beet red and his facial veins popping as he faced down his commander-in-chief that fateful night of April 18, 1961. “Mr. President, TWO planes from the Essex! (the U.S. Carrier just offshore from the beachhead)” that’s all those Cuban boys need, Mr. President. Let me order…!”
JFK was in white tails and a bow tie that evening, having just emerged from an elegant social gathering. “Burke,” he replied. “We can’t get involved in this.”
“WE put those Cuban boys there, Mr. President!” The fighting admiral exploded. “By God, we ARE involved!”
Admiral Burke’s pleas also proved futile.
“Tears flooded my eyes,” wrote Grayston Lynch. “For the first time in my 37 years I was ashamed of my country.”
I didn't learn till about 30-35 years later about Florida, the Cubans and what my pop did. He was glad when anything bad happened to a Kennedy. all of them. He didn't like McNamara, Kissinger or Rusk much either.
This was a sad day for America and still is, the dimwits in the White House caused the best and brightest of the Cubans to leave Cuba to take refuge in the US and then the US tied their hands from taking Cuba back. Over the years over a million Cubans have fled Castro’s socialist hell to the US and no doubt many more would if they could. Many on make shift floats and many didn’t make it. In another Jimmy Carter fiasco, to accommodate the Mariel Boatlift Castro emptied his jails and mental institution sending the inmates to the US as they were greeted here in this country by the Carter administration.
A shame we will never live down. Makes one wonder if the Lord has allowed all the wars since to be technically “lost”, and yet America is clueless. We talk of our military prowess and still elect fools to lead us. Military prowess is not something that just happens. It is cultivated and worked at. But with leaders as we’ve had from the 1960s, we will lose it all and still be ruled by clueless fools and ruthless Marxists. As we have been, except for Reagan, who wasn’t perfect, either.
They trusted us.