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| The Bay of Pigs: The Sickening Truth Part II, The Battle is Joined |
| 2022-04-16 |
| [Townhall] "They fought like Tigers," wrote a CIA officer who helped train the Cuban freedom-fighters who landed at The Bay of Pigs 61 years ago this week... "But their fight was doomed before the first man hit the beach." That CIA man, Grayston Lynch, knew something about fighting -- and about long odds. He carried scars from Omaha Beach, The Battle of the Bulge and Korea's Heartbreak Ridge. But in those battles, Lynch and his band of brothers could count on the support of their own chief executive. At the Bay of Pigs, Lynch and his band of Cuban brothers learned -- first in speechless shock and finally in burning rage -- that their most powerful enemies were not Castro's Soviet-armed and led soldiers massing in Santa Clara, Cuba, but the Ivy League's Best and Brightest dithering in Washington. Lynch trained, in his own words, ''brave boys most of whom had never before fired a shot in anger." Short on battle experience, yes, but they fairly burst with what Bonaparte and George Patton valued most in a soldier -- morale. They'd seen the face of Castro/Communism point-blank: stealing, lying, jailing, poisoning minds, murdering. They'd heard the chilling "Fuego!" as Castro and Che's firing squads murdered thousands of brave countrymen. More importantly, they heard the "Viva Cuba Libre!" from the bound and blindfolded patriots, right before the bullets ripped them apart. They set their jaws and resolved to smash this murderous barbarism that was ravaging their homeland. And they went at it with a vengeance. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-04-16 12:17 |
| #2 They sure taught Castro a lesson, didn't they |
| Posted by: Snugum Grundy8528 2022-04-16 12:07 |
| #1 Bay of Pigs fiasco, April 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 Kennedy Assassination, November 1963 For perspective... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-04-16 11:28 |