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Un último adiós
To close out the month of May, below are my previous posts on Assault Brigade 2506, on the Cuban Liberation Air Force, and on the Sixth Battalion (my father’s unit) — may he rest in peace and may our beloved … Continue reading
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Wikipedia Wednesday: Saudade
Via Wikipedia: “Saudade is an emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent something or someone.” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade) See also this report (via NPR), which is paradoxically titled “An Untranslatable, Undeniably Potent Word”.
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Twitter Tuesday: *23 truths*
You can read the entire list of “23 truths I wish I knew at 23” here, though I especially appreciate item #5.
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Ode to the Sixth Battalion: The Last Stand of Girón
This is the last installment of my series of blog posts in honor of my late father, Francisco Guerra, a veteran of Brigade 2506, Sixth Battalion. “The last battle had an epic quality all the more tragic because it was … Continue reading
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Ode to the Sixth Battalion: The Road with No Name
This is the penultimate or next-to-last installment of my series of blog posts in honor of my late father, Francisco Guerra, a veteran of Brigade 2506, Sixth Battalion. Tuesday, 18 April (D-Day +1) The brave men of the Brigade were … Continue reading
Ode to the Sixth Battalion: The Battle of the Rotunda
This is part 3 of my series of blog posts in honor of my late father, Francisco Guerra, a veteran of Brigade 2506, Sixth Battalion. End of Invasion Day (Night of 17 April) and Start of Invasion Day Two (Late … Continue reading
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Ode to the Sixth Battalion: The Beachhead
This is part 2 of my series of blog posts in honor of my late father, Francisco Guerra, a veteran of Brigade 2506, Sixth Battalion. Invasion Day, Afternoon of 17 April As I mentioned in my previous post, the Sixth … Continue reading
Ode to the Sixth Battalion: Pre-invasion Preparations and Landing at Playa Girón
As I have mentioned previously, I recently discovered that my late father, Francisco Guerra, was a veteran of the legendary Brigada de Asalto 2506. He joined the Brigade in early 1961 at the age of 18, was assigned serial number … Continue reading
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Homenaje a la Brigada 2506
As I have mentioned in some of my previous posts (see here, here, and here), I recently learned that my late father, Francisco Guerra, was a veteran of the legendary Brigada de Asalto 2506, an idealistic group of mostly young … Continue reading
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