Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, two days later, he flew to Miami's Orange Bowl to review Brigade 2506 and receive its flag-which had been hidden by one of the men during months of imprisonment and smuggled out of Cuba...
...after the homecoming there remained some hard facts to be faced. What would the men of Brigade 2506 do next? Most were determined to continue their fight against Castro. Vowed Manuel Artime, one of the leaders of the Bay of Pigs invasion: "Our plan is to return to Cuba. We will come back-when or where I cannot say -but we will return...
...assure you that this flag will be returned to this brigade in a free Havana," said the President in strident, emphatic tones. "The strongest wish of the people of this country, as well as the people of this hemisphere, is that Cuba shall one day be free again, and when it is, this brigade will deserve to march at the head of the free column...
Kennedy urged the Cubans to "submerge those differences which now may disturb you, to the united end that Cuba is free," and commended to them the advice of Jose Marti, the hero of Cuban independence, who in 1895 urged his fellow exiles to display "not the useless clamor of fear's vengeance but the honest weariness of an oppressed people...
Starting Again. Official U.S. policy toward Cuba apparently is still as the President enunciated it in September: "We shall neither initiate nor permit aggression in this hemisphere.'' Without strong U.S. support, the Cubans could hardly hope to return to their homeland for a long while. But even if the men. as one immigration official said, would have to "start all over again like any other exiles." they were at least starting a long way from the dungeons of Castro's Cuba. And that was certainly something to be thankful...