AT WAR.....WHAT TO SAY

These three kids who lived in Madrid district of Tetuan, I came up born when the world was at war. 

Millions of souls lost their lives in the battlefields, in the bombing of cities, in villages, in the death camps, while new beings were born and occupied the vacancies left by millions dead. 

Ironica or ghoulish law of life and death, some leave and others occupy the sites that have left the disappeared. 
Humans procreate destroyed and simultaneously, is what preserves from certain extinction in times of trouble, war and extermination.

Tens of millions of deaths would leave large gaps in the towns and fields of Europe systematically destroyed by even greater catastrophe than the previous one occurred a few years earlier. Convulsive and apocalyptic world plunged into World War II, was the one who came to receive them without them were aware of what was awaiting them. Most, Paquita, born in 1940 when the German army invaded nations and cities in a lightning operation that appears exchange borders and the fate of entire nations in Europe in those years. The girl came into the world recently started a harsh winter decimated starved bodies of millions of hungry Spaniards and numb with cold, year and a half after the end of civil war in Spain.

 

Burgos was and is a glorious and austere land, forger of Castile, thebirthplace of El Cid and other heroes throughout history. 
It is also a land where cold there, with winters that can freeze your blood, and this 1940 in which the little girl was born was particularly cold with large and heavy snowfalls. 

Salas de los Infantes where was born the small town where his parents had established their home that served as a casino, a ballroom and cafeteria. 
Parents married once finished the Civil War on October 12, 1939. 

Survivor war and after years of being in the front fighting, Emiliano, decided that when the time was to wed his girlfriend of years.

He could have lost his life on the front line countless times, it was not so and after five years or more distance relationship decided it was time to start a family and realize their relationship at a wedding held in that city, where would be born the first of his daughters. They were crazy or what? Give birth to a child in such adverse circumstances? Without this, with an uncertain future, a war that was raging in Europe and Spain bloodied and miserable where people fleeing big cities escaping from hunger.

Conscious or not its responsibility, the couple established in Salas felt what all new parents experience, joy, love and joy upon seeing a godita content and beautiful creature that had cost his mother great efforts to parirla. The doctor had to come riding a mule and crossing fields with more than half ameter of snow. It took but was born and bawling like crazy sleepless leaving everyone in the big house they called "The Casino". No one chooses the time of birth and this creature certainly did not choose yours. They awaited him difficult time, hunger and extreme needs in a post - war Spain, surrounded by fighters in Europe, and with great purges carried out by the regime of the victors in the last civil war.


The new father, overwhelmed by his wife circunstacians and weakened by a difficult birth, had the bright idea of calling her family, mother, father and sisters, who lived in a nearby town. 
He thought, naive, her mother and sisters could help the mother thing soon saw was a very unfortunate idea. 

After a few months of living in the big house, I finally had to ask where they were they had come because they were no longer necessary and strains of his new wife with his family, were sounded and everyday.

Here we let this couple age 26, a small, two cats, a maid brought from another burgalés people, a casino regentar and a lifetime ahead to bring more children into the world and live years later in Madrid, the big city capital of a Spain that detracted decades of hardships and shortages that would last until the late fifties. 
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower visited Spain in 1959 diciciembre seeking alliances and put its bases weapons, aircraft and missiles in themiddle of the "cold war" against the Soviet Union.


Franco, eager to be admitted in international forums, opened wide the doors of the nation to new saviors of Europe, Americans who wanted to establish their bases fighting in different parts of the old continent and particularly near several cities Spanish considered strategic for their purposes.

The prevailing contain communism in the Eastern nations under the tutelage of Soviet Russia was a priority, and Spain were opened some international forums forbidden for dictatorial and repressive winner of the civil war Regimen again. 

Bread, milk, American cheese and COCA COLA in exchange for military bases in Torrejon (Madrid), Zaragoza, Rota and some more strategic points."Welcome Mr. Marshall" was the trend in the late fifties early sixties, Americans come with their hands full of gifts, chocolate, margarine and especially COLA COCA COLA AND PEPSI, we open our doors to the new civilization beyond the seas. 

the gatufo