I had my hands full caring for an infant and a toddler when I first heard reports that US forces had invaded Grenada. So maybe I can be forgiven for my initial confusion. I couldn’t imagine why we would attack a city in Spain. I’d confused Grenada (an island nation in the Caribbean) with Granada. On October 19, 1983, a pro-communist coup left Prime Minister Maurice Bishop dead. For several days the country was under curfew; anyone out of doors was shot on sight. Work began on a huge reinforced airstrip for heavy military transport planes. At the request of the Dominican Republic, President Reagan sent US troops to put down the revolution and reinstate the pre-revolutionary constitution. It wasn’t an internationally popular move. But Reagan wasn’t known for doing things because it would please the rest of the world. I wonder what would have happened if Obama had been president then.
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