Babalú has a great collection of posts by fellow Cuba bloggers on this sad day in Cuban, and American history.
Val is right.
The men of Brigade 2506 were and are heroes.
I have no direct ties with anyone who landed at Playa Giron, but I have heard and read some stories over the years.
There's the one about my great-uncle Rolando Masferrer, who had hatched his own anti-Castro plots being picked up by the FBI a few days before the invasion to keep him quiet about what was about to happen. He was no fan of President Kennedy, and the feeling was mutual.
And then there is the story about my father, then a teenager living in Paterson, N.J., going to a New York hotel to sign for the invasion and being told he was too late.
Both stories are minor footnotes in the events that happened 45 years ago today.
Don't go telling me about your hero President Kennedy.
On April 17, 1961, he was a coward, and Cubans paid for that cowardice with their blood and freedom.
Kennedy is a "hero" for preventing nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, but that crisis might have been averted if he had done the right thing at the Bay of Pigs.
Hopefully soon, with or without the help of the United States, Cubans will be able to finish what the heroes of Brigade 2506 started.
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