Anniston Star Publisher H. Brandt Ayers recently wrote in his column that “(A)s a couple, Josephine and I had to mourn President Kennedy’s murder alone, ‘infected’ as we were with the civil common sense of North Carolina and the high-minded vision of JFK’s Washington.”
As a soldier, I didn’t mourn the dude — but I did mourn the slaughter and capture of our brave, but defenseless, Bay of Pigs military comrades when Kennedy called off critical, life-saving air support during their commander-in-chief’s directed assault of the Cuban beaches.
Armond “Si” Simmons
Pell City
