[barrett.t]

I am not offended Gary and I did not think that you were trying to. I just wanted to know in what context it was said so I could evaluate it. Castro cannot do a lot for his people because American Governments, not the people, embargo Cuba, which I think is unfair for ordinary people suffer. We did it against Iraq and thousands died as a result. I think Castro is a fool he should compensate Americans for their losses and come to some agreement with America for mutual co – existence. I can understand why older Americans dislike those people who called themselves communists. The leaders of Russia, China, North Korea and so on were sadistic dictators who had no respect for human life. As you know Marx never argues for the wholesale slaughter for those people the state is supposed to protect. The emphasis is on economic and social equality. So therefore: If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John, Fitzgerald Kennedy. The government would reflect the peoples will as Rousseau thought, and Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. That Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln. Said like a good socialist. Gary I will always be grateful for the many Yanks that died on the Normandy beaches that have since allowed me to speak freely. So I can say with freedom what I truly think and feel. Under Stalin I would have been shot.

Although, laid many miles from the USA there are many fields in France that will always be forever America. God bless you and keep you and thank you and as another great American thought, Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to new generation of Americans- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage- and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of Liberty. And so my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America can do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Born 1917- murdered in 1963.