tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203081344028906101.post677236819984970691..comments2024-03-23T09:53:42.844-03:00Comments on A Yankee at Large: A Day of RemembranceDan Newlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12808659212364459371noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203081344028906101.post-86197035066294123272010-03-24T18:18:13.764-03:002010-03-24T18:18:13.764-03:00I have received this much appreciated comment from...I have received this much appreciated comment from an old friend of the my Herald days, Albert Canil:<br /><br />"Dear Dan<br />Strange reading... you make me feel as if I had been on another planet... and most certainly I was, blissfully unaware of what was really going on. I too fell for the "chivalrous general" façade cum farse and only so, so much later became aware of what was really going. I shudder to think of the times I drove down Libertador, past the ESMA, perchance listening to music or chatting with a friend while people were being tortured and murdered practically within earshot.<br />Brilliant prose that makes one want to keep on reading, spellbinding for it gives us a chance to revisit our own past with a different light."Dan Newlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12808659212364459371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203081344028906101.post-23332862001812062672010-03-24T15:57:46.064-03:002010-03-24T15:57:46.064-03:00Thanks so much for reading it,Syl, when you are wi...Thanks so much for reading it,Syl, when you are with much bigger concerns to keep you busy. And thank you for your intimate comprehension of those dangerous and confusing days. Through you, I truly feel understood. Um, I shouldn't bother much about "avivando giles" (about not letting sleeping dogs lie) though. There are people, even a couple of prominent ones, there who know perfectly well how things were in the days after Bob left and everybody thought that would be enough to shut the paper up (when, in fact, it didn't). They know and have chosen silence. I've chosen to keep writing.Dan Newlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12808659212364459371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203081344028906101.post-43306795334586678892010-03-24T14:52:36.036-03:002010-03-24T14:52:36.036-03:00Dan, I've read the last part, about Cox's ...Dan, I've read the last part, about Cox's summons to Massera's office. It really makes me cry with rage, but at the same time you've brought to the forefront the Herald's courage in continuing to publish Massera's name and activities -as well as the other armed force's- in spite of this dire warning and the many future threats to journalists and their families. Specifically, Robert Cox's family.<br />Yet that is where you come in. You stayed on to help keep the Herald going under the dictatorships, receiving threats from all sides. I'm truly looking forward to reading 'My Herald Days' in book form. Any news about that? <br />Although I don't buy the Herald nowadays, I just might decide to write a 'reader's letter' to them on the subject of how the newspaper was skillfully & honestly directed after its editors were forced to leave the country. The idea is to ASK them about that survival period, you know, suggest they publish an article enlightenning their readers about that blank space in the paper's history. Congrats, Dan, on this article, which I hope to read in its entirety when my husband has recovered from his heart trouble. Cheers!Sylviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01104063373122049938noreply@blogger.com