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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2863925, member: 76194&quot;]To follow up on my story from Page 2:</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two articles from November, 1995 and January, 1996 about the men who operated the boat I came in. They pled guilty and were sentenced to 16 months in Federal Prison.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1995-11-10/news/9511100032_1_guilty-pleas-two-dozen-refugees-cuban-gunboat" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1995-11-10/news/9511100032_1_guilty-pleas-two-dozen-refugees-cuban-gunboat" rel="nofollow">http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1995-11-10/news/9511100032_1_guilty-pleas-two-dozen-refugees-cuban-gunboat</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1996-01-13/news/mn-24184_1_cuban-refugee" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://articles.latimes.com/1996-01-13/news/mn-24184_1_cuban-refugee" rel="nofollow">http://articles.latimes.com/1996-01-13/news/mn-24184_1_cuban-refugee</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The article states that the men claimed the death of the young woman aboard was the fault of the Cuban government, which chased the boat and opened fire on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>And being there in the middle of that, I have to say their statement was pretty accurate. We were indeed shot at, and about 20 minutes later we were chased by boats, which chased us for the next 3 hours. They were threatening to sink us and kill us all. I could actually hear their shouts. Had we slowed down at all, we would have all been dead.&nbsp; I saw her die. I was next to her, and I had a broken foot which was not treated for 7 days until the group of migrants were sent to Guantanamo Bay. There they had break the fracture again and reset my foot as it had started to heal improperly.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d love to say that was the worst of it, but I remember in Guantanamo seeing a woman snap out in frustration and grab her 5 year old daughter and run into a mine field. Luckily she didn&#039;t step on a mine, but it took the guards nearly 4 hours to get them out of there. Lots of people snapped. Many had seen their loved ones die at sea, and now they were stuck in an American base in Cuba, surrounded by mine fields and with nothing to do, nowhere to go, and no idea when they were ever going to get out. Thats enough to drive some people insane.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another coin...my Tet of Gallienus</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]682869[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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