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Last Saturday in Las Vegas a "77" Year Old Man was Shot to Death at the Convenience Store Where He Worked by a Young Mexican Attempting to Rob the Store. A Former Marine Corps Officer Working There Part-Time, Although Mortally Wounded He Still Got Off 3 Shots Killing His Attacker. A Couple Years Ago 2 Young Black Guys Tried to Kidnap an "84" Year Old Man at a Car Wash and Make Him Take Them to His Residence. Liking His Chances Better at the Car Wash the Old Man Pulled Out a Gun and Shot it Out With Them Killing One and Forcing his Accomplice to Flee. A Few Days Later the "22" Year Old Slain Guy's Picture and Obituary Were in the Newspaper in Which He Was Described as Being a Prince of a Fellow. Currently Tony Curtis has an Exhibition of Pictures He Painted at the Flamingo Library in Las Vegas Where I Often Go, Pretty Good. Tony Has Established a Foundation Which has Saved About 500 Wild Horses from the Slaughterhouse, Sparing our Mustangs from These Foreigners' Dinner Plates. Tony Never Even Went to High School and Made a Big Success of Himself. I Left Havana to go to Trinidad Described by Batista as " a Jewel of Colonial Architecture." Going to Trinidad I Was Able to Take the Bus and also Leaving it to Go to Santiago de Cuba, the Only 2 Times I Was Able to Hop a Bus. Trinidad, on the East Coast, was Pretty Good, Interesting Museums both Colonial and the One Devoted to Fidel's Revolution, What I Didn't Like Were the Uneven and Often Sharp Cobblestones in the Streets. Cuba's Sidewalks are Usually Narrow and I Often Walked in the Street and It Was Slow and Painful in Trinidad (it's on the West Coast). Overnight Bus All the Way Down to Santiago where the Air is the Worst in Cuba. But Neat Things to See Nonetheless, I Went to the Moncado Barracks where on July 26, 1953 Fidel and Raul Launched Their Attack Which was the Beginning of the Uprising Against Batista. The Attack was an Egregious Failure, Some of the Cars Got Lost and Didn't Get There, Young Recruits Told for the First Time They'd be Taking On Batista's Heavily Armed Professional Soldiers Quaked at the Thought. Soon after Entering the #3 Gate (Where They Have a Museum Commemorating the Event) Fidel and his Men were Recognized, Although Dressed as Soldiers, As Enemies and Fire Was Directed at Them. Only 8 Were Killed but Almost Half of the Original 122 were Tortured and Killed. Strangely, Fidel and Raul Were Spared as Fidel had Spared the Life of one of the Officers at Moncado Barracks up in the Mountains. The Gruesome Fate of the Captured Fidelistas Turned the Cuban People Against Batista----at his Trial Castro Gave a 5-Hour Speech in Which he Said, "History Will Absolve Me."