It was early September of the year 1979. Me and my good friend Sharmon Shintani decided to head to the theater to see the re-release of ‘Star Wars’, arguably the greatest sci-fi adventure fantasy of all time. Before we hit the theater, we stopped in at a ‘Mr. Submarine’ on Ontario Street in St. Catharines […]
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What we can learn from the ‘Bay of Pigs’ Disaster The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Spanish: Invasión de la Bahía de los Cochinos, sometimes called Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Playa Girón after the Playa Girón) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the
There is a saying, ‘Victory has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan’. John F. Kennedy modified that slightly in the aftermath of the ill fated ‘Bay of Pigs’ invasion by saying “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan”. I’m pretty sure at that point in his presidency he was definitely
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