CHAPTER NINETEEN


THE END!


Obviously these words should have been on the previous page. 
However, my razor started whining, "is that it?" Not a word about 
what you been thinking about my future? My razor knows that I have 
been thinking about sending it back to Lewisburg with a note. 
"thanks for the loan". My razor is really pissed off about that. 
So I promised my razor, that when I die, I will have my body 
cremated. Then somebody can put the ashes in a little cardboard box 
and bury it. Perhaps in 10 or 20,000 years an archaeologist will 
be digging in the ground somewhere and find a silver razor, with 
the words Gillette, written on the slightly curved top!

P.S.!  One of my daughters arrived from the U.S. Just as I had 
completed this book. My daughter, had in her baggage, an autographed, 
copy of Robert McNamara,s book! So now I have read the book. The 
only thing I could  perhaps think of changing in my book would be 
the fact. Instead of saying that we kicked your ass in Vietnam, 
we should say that we kicked your ass in Cuba also. Because my 
childhood friends helped kick "the bright boys" asses there also!        

The one thing that really amazes me about McNamaras thoughts about 
Cuba is the fact that he only talks about the "Missile" crisis and 
the "Bay of Pigs". McNamara, you are lying about history! The truth 
is that your predecessors in government and the corporations pushed 
the Cubans into the arms of the Russians!

When the guerrillas came down out of the mountains and seized 
power, they did two things. They closed the casino's and they 
nationalised the sugar and United Fruit Corporations. Historically, 
they were absolutely correct in doing this. The casino's and the 
corporations were symbols of oppression and for years had enslaved 
the people of Cuba. It was then, that corporate creeps  like you 
did everything in your power to get back what you lost. In doing 
so you pushed the Cuban leadership into the arms of the Russians.

McNamara, in reality, the goal of the American ruling class in 
Cuba was and still is-getting back what you lost! So stop whining 
about how close "we" were to a nuclear war. Today it is not for 
the love of the Cuban exiles or democracy the United States is still 
doing everything they can to make it difficult for the Cubans. It 
never has been your goal. The truth is, the ruling class, in America, 
wants Cuba back in order to build a semester paradise for the rich. 
Perhaps the Cubans can in the future get jobs sweeping floors in the  
casino's and hotels. 

The only other comment is, read McNamara's book and read my book. 
The books clearly point out the two sides in this historical drama. 
Then choose sides.

THE END