By Silvio Canto, Jr.
Fifty-five years ago, my parents and lots of other Cubans woke up to "la invasion," or the invasion that most of us expected and were ready for. There were groups in Cuba who had been fighting Castro, from sabotage to confronting the regime block by block. This is about The Bay of Pigs, an event that most people have forgotten unless you're a Cuban of my parents' generation or someone like them who was impacted by it. The plans for the invasion were passed on to new president Kennedy by the outgoing Eisenhower administration.
The men who invaded Cuba were primarily refugees trained by the CIA in Nicaragua. They adopted the name of Brigade 2506 in honor of a member killed accidentally during training exercises. The veterans of the brigade have a museum in Miami, a reminder to the young about the men who were willing to fight and remove communism from the island. The politically correct explanation is that the invasion failed because Cubans did not rise up against Castro. Actually, it failed because the total plan was never carried out, and the men were left stranded, as Michael Sullivan wrote:
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My Take - JFK was a disaster as a president! There - I've said it. And it needs to be said over and over again. He was a bad president, a bad husband, a bad administrator, and not much as a human being. We keep hearing the left claim character doesn't count, but I believe JFK's character defined him, his decisions and his presidency. That along with being drugged for his afflictions no one knew about. The Kennedy's, - all of them - starting with old Joe the patriarch of the family - have the moral fiber of goats.
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