A Cuban refugee family’s first Fourth of July

Via WiscoDave

All the “POPS!” and “BANGS!” from fireworks had my single (for the time) mother edgy. Firing-squads had been murdering thousands of Cubans ‘round the clock. Other thousands of Cubans waged a lonely and hopeless guerrilla war against the massively-armed forces of Soviet proxies Che Guevara and the Castro brothers. All this 90 miles from U.S. shores.

All those bombs and gunshots were only months distant on July 4^th, 1962–the Fontova family’s first Fourth in the U.S. We landed in south Louisiana, deepest, darkest Dixie. Castro’s propaganda constantly hammered that such areas of the U.S. were infested by “gun and religion-clinging people with ingrained antipathy to people who aren’t like them.” In the following five decades this dovetailing of Castroite and Democratic “talking points” became very noticeable to Cubans in the U.S.

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In memoriam

One of ours who returned to fight Castro.

 

Greenbrier Military School

 

First Name: 

Jose

 

Middle Name: 

Miguel

 

Last Name: 

Acosta

 

Grad Class: 

57

 

Last Class: 

Senior

 

Last Year Attended: 

1957

 

Rank: 

2nd Lt

 

Company: 

BHQ

 

Home Town: 

Havana

 

Home State: 

Cuba