Comments on: Youth Voices: My father’s story http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/02/27/immigration/youth-voices-my-fathers-story/ An independent, open forum for reports and opinions about life in our city. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:37:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill Shelton http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/02/27/immigration/youth-voices-my-fathers-story/comment-page-1/#comment-7147 Bill Shelton Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:14:53 +0000 http://www.somervillevoices.org/?p=752#comment-7147 Brian, estoy agradecido porque has compartido la historia tuya. Hay mucha gente en esta pais que debe entender la realidad de qual escribas. In the 1970s and 1980s, the U.S. government gave aid to la Mano Blanco, the death squad supported by the Samoza government. After Samoza was overthrown, the U.S. government supported las Contras who slaughtered people who supported the new government. Cellie Castillo, a former DEA agent, has testified that the CIA flew cocaine into the U.S. and, with the proceeds from selling cocaine, flew arms back to the Contras in the same airplanes. A famous historian who lived in Cambridge many years ago said that those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it. Brian, estoy agradecido porque has compartido la historia tuya. Hay mucha gente en esta pais que debe entender la realidad de qual escribas.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the U.S. government gave aid to la Mano Blanco, the death squad supported by the Samoza government. After Samoza was overthrown, the U.S. government supported las Contras who slaughtered people who supported the new government.

Cellie Castillo, a former DEA agent, has testified that the CIA flew cocaine into the U.S. and, with the proceeds from selling cocaine, flew arms back to the Contras in the same airplanes.

A famous historian who lived in Cambridge many years ago said that those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.

]]> By: Linda http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/02/27/immigration/youth-voices-my-fathers-story/comment-page-1/#comment-7132 Linda Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:06:47 +0000 http://www.somervillevoices.org/?p=752#comment-7132 Brian, Thanks for telling us your father's story. It's so important to collect these stories. I taped my dad telling a lot of his life story a long time ago and after he passed away the memories became even more precious to me and my brothers and sisters. I appreciate knowing your family story because it is so different from my own. The more I know about the struggles that immigrant families have gone through to set up life here, the more I appreciate how much they had to overcome. I hope your family is happy to be here. If I were you I'd be curious to visit El Salvador some day. I don't think it's all war. Thanks again. Brian, Thanks for telling us your father’s story. It’s so important to collect these stories. I taped my dad telling a lot of his life story a long time ago and after he passed away the memories became even more precious to me and my brothers and sisters. I appreciate knowing your family story because it is so different from my own. The more I know about the struggles that immigrant families have gone through to set up life here, the more I appreciate how much they had to overcome. I hope your family is happy to be here. If I were you I’d be curious to visit El Salvador some day. I don’t think it’s all war. Thanks again.

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