[142857] MONDAY MAGIC # / The Pacific Audie Murphy is a Cuban by Humberto Fontova / Courtesy of Miguel Uría

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The Pacific’s Audie Murphy is a Cuban 
By 
Humberto Fontova, on May 23, 2009, at 12:35 pm




 
WWII and Bay of Pigs hero Manuel Perez-Garcia

When Japan's ferocious General Tomoyuki Yamashita ("The Tiger of Malaya") finally emerged from his headquarters on Luzon to surrender he handed his pistol, samurai sword and battle flag to the nearest U.S. soldier he saw. This was Cuban born, Manuel Perez-Garcia.

At war's end the 82nd Airborne presented a special trophy to the U.S. soldier who had racked up the most enemy kills in the Pacific theater. Today that trophy sits prominently in Miami's Bay of Pigs Museum, donated by the man who won it, Bay of Pigs veteran and Cuban born, Manuel Perez Garcia. (Who started with the 82nd but fought in the Pacific with the 11th Airborne) The trophy sits alongside the three purple hearts, three bronze stars and three silver stars Mr Perez-Garcia earned in the Pacific. 

At age 51 Perez-Garcia volunteered for the Bay of Pigs invasion and gave the Castroites a thrashing as bad as he'd given the Japanese.

Manuel Perez-Garcia still lives in Miami, at age 101, and is active in the Bay of Pigs Veterans assoc. 

Unreal. 

UPDATE (from the managing editor):

Humberto adds in the comments:

  Upon the Communist invasion of South Korea in June of 1950, Manuel Perez-Garcia rallied to the U.S. colors again, volunteering for the U.S. army again at age 41. It took a gracious letter from President Harry Truman himself to explain that by U.S. law Manuel was slightly overaged but mostly that, "You, sir, have served well above and beyond your duty to the nation... You've written a brilliant page in service to this country."

  Mr Perez-Garcia's son, Jorge, however was the right age and stepped to the fore. He joined the U.S. army, made sergeant and died from a hail of Communist bullets while leading his men in Korea on May 4th 1952. To fight America's enemies, Mr Perez-Garcia and his son were shipped thousands of miles to distant continents. When he tried fighting one every bit as rabid and murderous as Tojo or Kim Il Sung but only 90 miles away--and who had converted his own homeland into a island prison, a Soviet colony and daily playground for Che Guevara's firing squads -- he was sold down the river. 

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PENSAMIENTOS POR SELECCION DE MIGUEL URIA QUE ESTIMAMOS APLICABLE A LA CAUSA QUE NOS UNE
 
"THEY FOUGHT LIKE TIGERS!"

Grayston Lynch

Veteran of Omaha Beach, the Bulge, two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts

 


 WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, 
ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE



"La proporción de nuestras bajas fueron superiores a las experimentadas por las tropas de los Aliados durante el desembarco de Normandía en cualquiera de las cuatro playas durante el “D Day”. 

Mario Martinez Malo



«La guerra se ha de hacer para evitar las guerras.»
José Martí

 

      «La guerra es la ocupación mas lícita que ha encontrado la humanidad para resolver los grandes problemas» 
      Antonio Maceo 


 

* «Nosotros no le pedimos que usted vaya a la guerra, solo pedimos su neutralidad, y el reconocimiento de los derechos de Cuba beligerante» / Respuesta de Horatio S. Rubens, abogado de la Delegación de la República en Armas, en 1897, al Presidente de USA, William McKinley. *

 

 

* "Es necesario restablecer posiciones en Cuba y otros países" /

Vladimir Putin," / August 4, 2008

 

''Así como en 1898 fuimos a Cuba a liberarla, vayamos otra vez a rescatar los prisioneros de guerra...”Barry Goldwater / May 1961

 

* "Appeasement is feeding the dragon hoping he will eat you last."  / Winston Churchill.



:  ¨Si una potencia enemiga está decidida a conquistarnos y a tal fin se dispone a dedicar todos sus recursos, ese enemigo ya está en guerra con nosotros; y nosotros –a menos que contemplemos rendirnos-- estamos en guerra con él. Más aun, --a menos que contemplemos la traición-- nuestro objetivo, igual que el suyo es la victoria. No la ¨paz¨, sino la victoria.¨  

                                                             Barry Goldwater




* “Help the Cubans to the utmost” counseling his successor while handing over the reins.“We cannot let Castro's government go on.”  President Dwight D. Eisenhower

  

* "Creo que perdonarlos es la función de Dios. Nuestro trabajo es sólo organizar la reunión." /   Ret. General Schwartzkopf 





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