Posted on 04/09/2005 8:57:34 PM PDT by CHARLITE
In 1971, the year I played a Vietnamese, I was a 7-year-old Communist pioneer who had already been made to swear to grow up to be like Che Guevara. Fidel Castro constantly reminded us that we were the hope of the world and that the revolution had been fought so that children like us could receive free education and free health care. For me, born in 1964, five years after Castro seized power, there was no other reality. I didn't know that children who lived elsewhere did not read Ho Chi Minh's biography in second grade.
I hadn't thought about that embarrassing play until June 13, 2002, the day I found Mike Howell, a Vietnam veteran whose job for 18 months had been to support American ground troops by shooting his M-60 machine gun at the North Vietnamese and Vietcong from a helicopter 25 to 50 feet above ground. Just the kind of man I had been taught to fear.
I had been searching for Mike for three years, but I had wondered about him for more than two decades. In the spring of 1980, when Castro allowed thousands of Cubans to leave the island in what came to be known as the Mariel boat lift, Mike, who had sailed to Cuba on a humanitarian mission, rescued me and took me to Key West aboard his boat, Mañana. For years, I did not know his name, only the name of his boat.
Through a combination of luck and hard work, I found him, still aboard the Mañana. His eyes crinkled and a shy smile curled up his thin lips as he took my hand to help me board his boat, moored in New Orleans. ''I had always wondered what happened to you and yours,'' he said.
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Sorry, as much as I would like to read the entire story I am not about to sign up for that communist rag.
Yes, this does look like a good story. Would you mind copying and pasting the rest of it? Or is that something the NY Times Online doesn't permit?
It is indeed. Do not do it. Do not do it from any of the papers that are owned by or affiliated with the Slimes either. They have vicious lawyers.
It's also against the rules here at FR, because it can make the management liable to copyright infringements. Actually signing up isn't that bad. I registered just so that I could read the articles that I want to read. It takes about 2 or 3 minutes to register, as with other online news sites. Not a big deal. Not a problem.
So, why don't you give us a summary then. Knowing the NYT, it probably supports some kind of socialist/communist agenda.
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