Memories of Guantanamo - Official Teaser
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- For years, the media has pressured both George W. Bush and Barak Obama to "Close Guantanamo." Just recently the Obama administration has announced aspirations to usher in new relations with Cuba. What will be the future of GTMO?
The average American only knows GTMO as a prison for terrorists.
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is one of the most unique land properties of The United States of America. A strategic military installation for over 100 years, it’s been the source of controversy from early in the 20th century, again in the mid 20th century with Fidel Castro, and yet again most recently in the post 911 era with the Guantanamo Bay detention camps. It is the only Naval Base located on communist soil and the only military base in a country in which the United States doesn’t have official diplomatic relations.
Would you be shocked to hear that GTMO (pronounced Gitmo) is a great place to raise a family? Or that there are about 5000 men, women and children who live there, who go to school there, who play softball, eat at McDonalds and go bowling there? This film tells the untold history of daily life on the most controversial military base in the world from the perspective of the people who actually lived there. Memories of Guantanamo takes a look back at the unique history of Guantanamo Bay and explores daily life on the island throughout the last century.
In the 50s, life on GTMO was like something from the movie Pleasantville or the TV series Leave it to Beaver: peaceful, social and...well, pleasant. The Cuban Missile Crisis of the 60s introduced us to a new enemy in Fidel Castro and everything changed after that. During the 80s, GTMO ended up housing tens of thousands of refugees from Haiti and Cuba. Most recently GTMO has had the dark reputation of the Camp X-ray detention camps during the post 911 war on terror.
Directed by award winning documentary filmmaker Trevor F. Ward, this film is being produced using historical resources from the Guantanamo Public Memory Project, based out of Columbia University.
www.memoriesofguantanamo.com
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My Dad was station there from 1949-1951 and end up getting married with a Cuban lady (mom) now for 52 years and counting.
As a navy dependent, I went to the elementary school in Gitmo from 60' until Oct. 62'. ( We evac'd on Oct.22, 1962. Almost no warning...pack a bag and head for the docks..) Learned how to swim at that swimming pool.. Played 'pee wee league' baseball on the Gitmo Bay Red Sox.... Great memories of that base...
I was there in the 70s a few times. I would go back if allowed. It's a clean place, good people, churches, schools,supermarkets. Swimming, fishing .I'm sure who ever has been there will want to go back.
I LOVED living there!!!! I would go back RIGHT NOW!!!!!
I was stationed in GTMO with the Marines from July '85 - July '87. Spent 6 months on Windward Marine Hill and the rest of my time on the Leeward fence line. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will always have a place in my heart.
1981-1982 Leeward Side, We help build it. 106 A-Gunner
I was a Corpsman at Navhosp around that same time.
I would go back in a heartbeat. I loved every second of my time there
I was stationed there with VC-10 a Navy Aviation Squadron from September 1972 to March 1974. We were stationed on the Leeward side of the base. At the time we operated F-8K's fighter's & target tow S-2's. I enjoyed my time there, and it sure beat being deployed on a Ship. We basically did our job, then went back to the barracks, to our individual cube spaces that we decorated to our individual tastes. We had an outdoor theater on the Leeward side, plus an enlisted club. If you were into sports, our squadron had a baseball and basketball team that played other different units at GTMO. There was fishing, swimming, snorkeling, and you could even rent a boat back then. It had one TV and radio station back in the 1970's, run by AFRTS - Armed Forces Radio & Television Station. Get weather year round, with the exception of an occasional hurricane or tropical storm. There is a ferry to transport you back and forth the the Windward side which was the main Naval base.
I lived there with my parents back in 1988 (8 years old at the time). We lived in a neighborhood named Kittery Beach. I was exposed to so many cultures as a young child and the things I learned from that stayed with me. I was introduced to various Philipino dishes like pancit and lumpia when my mom would take me shopping with her on Saturdays at the commissary. I learned to speak spanish from both of baby sitters, one was from Puerto Rico and the other one was from Panama. My dad made quite a few friends that were Jamaican and they would barbecue Jerk chicken for us on the weekends sometimes. I miss GTMO
My father was in the Navy 1952-1956 and he spent much of that time in GTMO. He told me how he visited Havana frequently. While he never admitted it, he hinted that I might have a half brother somewhere in Cuba. He'd be in his early sixties by now if that is true.
I lived there for 2 years and would love to go back and visit.
My second home 1996 to 2009 .The happiness time I never forget ❤️ WP#3 Operation crew😊🇺🇲🇵🇭
I cannot wait to watch the full documentary.
I was born there and currently fighting not to get deported from the US. Good luck with this informative doc.
28 agosto 1994 al 12 semtiembre 1995 en el campamento india y golf
No one will be watching this in Gtmo because of the god damn horrible internet 😂
Having been stationed there for two 4 year tours (1975-1979, 1981-1985) I am anxious to see this documentary.
Is simple CUBA 🇨🇺 is beautiful ❤️
Trevor. I spoke to you about this project when you were starting it. I am curious, did it get made? I would love to see the pics and footage. I have fond memories of growing up there. It was a great duty station
Made more than one trip to GITMO during the late 1950's and mid 1960's aboard ship for training. As I remember some of the FREE time on the base everyone there enjoyed their stay there. I especially remember that the SCUBA Diving was just there. Lee Damicone, RD1 Plank Owner USS John R. Perry (DE-1034)
The ship I was stationed on went there for 6 weeks in 1964 and 3 weeks in 1965. The training was hard and hot, but liberty was wonderful and beautiful.
I was there from June of 68 till June of 69. I flew crew on the S-2"s towing targets for ships to shoot at. Good times. I remember going to the Morin Center to see the shows. We had a good swimming area on the Leeward side. The day I got there they had just lost a F-8 plane and pilot. Every payday Friday we had steaks on the grill at the chow hall. I would pop corn in our cube and in no time I would have a crowd in my cube. VC-10 was the squadron there.
I was a Company Commander at the Marine Barracks when BGEN Walls arrived.
I was stationed at GTMO.
Just watched the 5:26 video and I found a few mistakes in the editing of the information of events. But I’m sure the facts are not as news worthy as a prison suspected of mistreatment of prisoners. Good luck on your next videos
Could you guide me as how I could get a job there? I am from jamaica
Ironic that the music used in the early part of this video was from the Clint Eastwood film "Two Mules for Sister Sara". When my Dad was stationed there as XO in '69-'71, 1970 was when I first saw that excellent movie, at the "outdoor theater" of that time. Actually, I think they set up about 100 chairs on a field somewhere, put up a large screen, and that was the theater. :) Memories.
Did this documentary ever get completed?
my boyfriend is there right now, doing a year and a half there. he should be done with his tour in July this year!
1981-1982 Semper Fidelis, Leeward Side. Hard Core
I lived there 1yr ...1976/77
Marine Barracks armory ncoic.
Our second home 🏡 for 15 years now.
And after this small documentary,Morgan Freeman received another freckle.
love it
Yo lleque a Guantánamo bay el 28 agosto 1994 cuando el éxodo de los balseros y viví 14 meses 15 días 1año 2 meses 4 días contados en lo campamento make 01 maker 06 la el kilo la india y el golf hasta el 12 octubre 1995 hasta la base militar en avión a hoster Florida
Yo sali por la. Base de guantanamo cuando mataban 5 o 6 cada noche tratando de crusar la frontera en el año 1968 soy guantanamero y vivi todo eso en carne prrpia con mi compañero. Luis. Sarmiiento al cual nunca olvido soy hiram escalante
Everybody gets to go there, except the Cuban Nationals who were born 20 miles north of the base, and lived there? Truly a travesty that Guantanamo is my home (lived there for 13 years), and I am banned from its shores and land. My-oh-My!
Why would a foreign national / illegal alien be allowed to set foot on U.S. soil, much less a military installation?
Is it sad that as an American, I am not allowed to live in North Korean Presidential Palace?
Because I'm a naturalized citizen of the USA, born of an American father from Indianapolis, UN, who lived on base for 13 years that's why! No HS reunions, no going back to the old neighborhoods or beaches, to relive memories. Make sense? Hope you get to your N. Korean palace soon!
@@gtmobayer Good for you, little man. That doesn't say much for the Gitmo school system, though, if you're one of its products.
If you ask an adult to read the post to you, you will see that I was referring to the "Cuban Nationals" to whom YOU alluded. Why would THEY be permitted to enter a US military installation? Whether they were born 20 miles away or 20 ft away, they are neither US citizens, nor are they DoD personnel. Hence, my comparison to North Korean installations, to which I have no affiliation.
Spend more time with "Hooked on Phonics," and less time pondering the legalities of national ingress/ egress. I am not sure how you went from Cuban Nationals' to your own citizenship, but I cannot say that I am surprised. It's one thing if you can't follow a conversation, but it's pathetic when you can't follow your OWN comment.
@@DowntownDeuce2 Back at you!
@@gtmobayer I guess that's the only reply a primitive mind can come up with, when they don't understand what just happened and there's no one around to read to them.
It's less painful to you than admitting you forgot your own post and couldn't read mine accurately. Whatever helps a peasant sleep at night.
"...the vast majority were innocent." WTF? There's a big difference between "innocent" and the convening authority not pursuing charges. No wonder he was a chaplain and not a JAG.
Would absolutely love to visit. Cuba -- but without the communism.
wtf...
You all were just havin a good time there and not a mile away humans are tortured
how can you just live with that?
Didn´t you go to GTMO to save the values of your loved country like freedom and democracy?
Torture, no matter if it´s psychological or physiological is never compatible with democracy
Felix - For many, many years before Bush turned it into a prison, it was a wonderful base responsible for training and ship repair. It was a great experience, and there was no politics of a prison or the middle east. The "Memories of Guantanamo" we are sharing, were mostly pre-Bush, and in simpler times.
You sound sad, cause you are a demorat!!! I feel sorry for you!!! Trump 2024!!!! Democracy sucks!!!!