‘A Likely Story’ in Nicaragua
Having fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, we resent President Reagan’s distortion of history, when he equates the Americans caught supplying the contras in Nicaragua with our participation in that war.
First, we were volunteers, not mercenaries. Second, we were helping the elected government of Spain in its struggle against Franco, Hitler and Mussolini.
Reagan’s policy of aid to the contras and the overthrow of the legal government of Nicaragua is the exact opposite of our help to the Spanish Republican government. Using our place in history to justify Reagan’s dirty war in Nicaragua can only result in further escalation, Americans coming home in body bags and another Vietnam
HENRY GILER
Long Beach
Giler is Los Angeles post commander of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
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