An Immigrant's Trigenerational Historical Reminiscences of Pre-Castro Cuba, Fleeing to America and Serving Its Military for Forty-One Years (1881-2021)
An Immigrant's Trigenerational Historical Reminiscences of Pre-Castro Cuba, Fleeing to America and Serving Its Military for Forty-One Years (1881-2021)
The book is an account of a young man whose mother died in Havana in 1956 and then raised by his father in the pre-revolution turbulence of the time. Fleeing communism, they arrived in Texas in May 1960, where the author comes of age. He soon assimilates into America and graduates from high school. Lacking academic direction, he joins the US Navy and falls in love with the rigors, discipline, and culture of military life. After an eight-year enlistment, he earned a commission in the US Army as an Infantry Officer and retired forty-one years later. At his father's deathbed, the father asked him…mehr
The book is an account of a young man whose mother died in Havana in 1956 and then raised by his father in the pre-revolution turbulence of the time. Fleeing communism, they arrived in Texas in May 1960, where the author comes of age. He soon assimilates into America and graduates from high school. Lacking academic direction, he joins the US Navy and falls in love with the rigors, discipline, and culture of military life. After an eight-year enlistment, he earned a commission in the US Army as an Infantry Officer and retired forty-one years later. At his father's deathbed, the father asked him to pen the memoirs he kept of his long military career, as well as those he kept of his own life in Havana and those of his father, a diplomat for the Republic of Cuba for 36 years. The book thematically chronicles the written narratives of the three men and ends in present-day America.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Born in Havana in 1949, Pascual and his family fled Cuba a year after the bloody communist revolution. They arrived in Houston Texas in May 1960. He learned English, and by default, the Texan language, growing up there during his teenage years. He graduated from high school in 1969, and on the day that America landed on the moon, he had an epiphany. Although accepted to a university, he realized academia could not deliver the marvels that life, and America specifically, so readily offered. He also realized that in order to save himself, from himself, the travel agency to deliver that would be the US military. He enlisted in the US Navy for eight years, and thereafter was commissioned an officer of infantry in the US Army. He would go on to serve a total of forty-one years, serving in combat and garrison environments worldwide. He earned numerous combat and achievement awards. He retired from active duty in 2010. He is a graduate of Florida International University, the University of South Florida and numerous senior service schools and institutions. He resides in Clayton, North Carolina with his wife Sharon. Both travel, garden and are involved in their community and with Veteran's issues. This memoir evokes colorful memories in a gifted writing style. Such remembrances were brought back to life by the author's well-kept notes, as well as those of his father, a banker in Havana for twenty years, and before that, those of his grandfather, one of Cuba's first ambassadors to Europe in a career that spanned thirty-six years.
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