I was awed by the silence but felt secure in the presence of the hundreds of comrades marching with me. At last I was on my way! Nothing but a mountain separated me from the war. ... We would win this war. How could we lose? We would win because we were on the right side, we were on the side of the poor and the oppressed people ... I knew from the experience of our March to Springfield just how falsely events were reported. Madrid would not fall. Republican Spain would not fall. We would go on to create other Republican states throughout the world. Perhaps even in Mississippi! As I looked up from the bottom of the Pyrenees mountains to their endless rise into the sky, I couldnt help but feel a bit apprehensive. How could we ever be able to scale them? It was dark except for a faint sliver of moonlight. Suppose one lost his footing? Strangely, though snipers could have opened fire upon us at any moment, I felt no real fear. I had experienced a much greater terror when Frank and Elijah and I had fled through the woods of Mississippi. Now I would soon be able to stand and fight, not flee - James Yates, Mississippi to Madrid, p.110.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:11:12 +0000
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