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Yankee Come Home explores one family's history in Cuba, and through it, the powerful, complex, smoldering relationship between your island nation and its leviathan neighbor. In Cuba's most entrancing, storied landscaping, William Craig is searching for a brief history that his family has lost - and now needs to retrieve. He's looking for the reality about his inexplicable great-grandfather, Thomas O'Brien, a self-proclaimed hero of the "splendid little conflict" who remaining a legacy of glorious, painful lays. Living a wish that haunts American hearts-the dream of escaping the past, to become who we say we could - "Papa" died leaving his own children questioning who he'd really been. On the way, Craig looks for where Gilded Get older America forgotten republican ideals and only imperial ambition - and where his own technology of Us citizens now preside over arbitrary imprisonment and systematized torture. "I needed to see Guantnamo the way some Americans needed to drive during the night to kneel at JFK's coffin, while others are attracted to Ground Zero," he creates. "Sometimes, we don't know very well what we've lost until we trace the marks." Going with Craig, listeners will interact present-day journeys: spirit-possession rituals, dark market odysseys, roots-music epiphanies, and exploring the continuing impact of the conflict in 1898 on both Cuba and America. The storyline of america in Cuba is amazing, but nothing too flattering. Just like the fact of "Papa" O'Brien's personal information, it demonstrates more hubris than heroism, more avarice than sacrifice. In the end, however, Craig's trip in Yankee Come Home is a change from disillusionment to redemption.
