Tag Archives: Fidel Castro

Dawn, October 23

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Joe Clark

It is amazing, the things you think about when you are awake at three in the middle of the night. Fifty-three years ago this morning at dawn, a section of RF-8 Crusaders streaked across the Cuban skies to record the … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, Flying, History | Tagged Commander William B. Ecker, Cuba, diplomacy, Fidel Castro, Lieutenant Bruce Wilhelmy, Light Photographic Squadron Sixty-two, MacDill AFB, military assault, National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy, naval blockade, Nikita Khrushchev, nuclear fallout, October 16 1962, overthrow Castro, President John F. Kennedy, RF-8 Crusaders, single-engine single-seat jet pilots, Soviet ballistic missiles, The Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union, the United States, U-2, US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, VFP-62 | 4 Comments

Brothers to the Rescue, Hermanos Al Rescate

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Joe Clark

Geographically, Cuba is a wonderful place, truly a paradise. Politically, however, it is a mess. Some of the recent news about Cuban politics includes Castro finally admitting socialism does not work and that the Cuban economic situation is broken. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, Flying, Life in General, Personal | Tagged airplanes, Brothers to the Rescue, Carlos Costa, Cessna 337 Skymaster, Cessnas, Cuba, Cuban politics, Cuban refugees, Cubans risk their lives trying to escape, dreamed of flying, Fidel Castro, Florida, flying, flying career, free Cubans, Hermanos Al Roscate, humanitarian, judgment, Michael Moore's movie, paradise, pilots, professional pilots, quiet confidence, rafting to freedom, shootdown, socialism, the Cuban economic situation, the Florida Straits, volunteer pilots and observers | 3 Comments

So, Castro Finally Figured It Out

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Joe Clark

In 1959, my father’s parents lost everything they owned when Fidel Castro took over Cuba and implemented communism. For quite some time, many in the world collectively questioned the sanity of Castro’s actions; it took us to the brink of … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal | Tagged abandoning communism and socialism, atrocities, Castro Finally Figured It Out, communism, Cuban people, Europe, Fidel Castro, former communist bloc nations, free education, Havana, humanitarians, independent journalists, liberal press, Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, no economic growth, nuclear war, religious workers, So, the ancient city, the lost city, there is no increase in tax revenues, unique witness, well funded interest groups, “wonderful” health care | 5 Comments

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