It is an unusual feeling to have a link to history like that, isn’t it? That fellow you knew was very lucky to have survived. I can’t imagine that...being in a cell only 4 feet high. You can never stand up. That kind of thing does break people.
I always appreciated hearing the story about how Guevara was killed-in the words of the prison scene in “Trading Places”...”You cried like a baby.”
He was tough until he was on the other side of a gun.
Amen
Che reaped his own whirlwind as they say
Oddly enough Pruna was saved by Columbia university from execution.
In another twist my dad USAF fighter pilot had peripheral BOPs involvement
I still recall the midnight bundling me up age 4-5 back of the old gold Star Chief
To meridian where he was squadron leader
Mom drove us back to Jax
He came back a few days later after being withheld to Homestead
To say he was a Kennedy fan would be a fair stretch but he did feel assassinations were poor form for a republic