Pilsner? Too weak. Suprema? Right on!

Not the best of beers, however, they work in their enviroments. Kind of nice having a nice cool Suprema as you overlook the San Salvador Volcano, almost reaching out with your hand and touching the sometimes cloud covered stratovolcano. Lush green vegetation along the nicely manicured lawns of the hotels on Boulevard de los heroes, and bustling multi-centro with all kinds of cuisines and shops. Shoot if I listened to USA television, I didn't stand a chance to survive a couple of days and nights in gang infested country of MS-13 caliber.
Of particular food interest to me, and referred to was MR DONUT. Forget the donuts in there, but they have some pretty good chicken tamales and pupusas galore, fried Yucca, smeared with some sweet sauce and cabage. The local ladies office workers walking around in nice tight black pants with their long black hair. Well manicured and made up with lipstick and you can tell their nails were painted with care. Very beautiful indeed. In contrast, you have an old lady in the corner selling flowers for a living, not giving a dam about her looks. Her indian eyes says it all. "I am what I am". Then a lady comes into the drinking establishment overlooking San Salvador Volcano, selling lottery tickets, of which I buy 6 dollars worth. (I had similar circumstances some 22 years ago down in Honduras and won some money.) I'm back in states now, but they got something on these lotto tickets they never had before. INTERNET web site to check your numbers. Who knows. Maybe I'll have more reason to return after I hit the lotto once again. That volcano took a good liking to me and me of it. The Suprema beer is also a huge time spender and relaxes to mind as you absorb the Central American noises and civiization.

29914 for 150,000 each ticket. DAM! Missed it. Had 4 played at the end, could have picked up three bucks per ticket or 15 bucks, for a total win of roughly 9 bucks.

Winning Numbers La Millonaria No. 1926 The Millionaire No. 1926 No. 39217 [Apopa] No. 39217 [Resume] $150,000 $ 150,000 No. 8640 [Usulutan] No. 8640 [Usulutan] $20,000 $ 20.000 No. 24682 [San Miguel] No. 24682 [San Miguel] $10,000 $ 10.000

Consulte su Billete Check your ticket MILLIONAIRE - 1926 MILLIONAIRE - 1925 SPECIAL - 142 MILLIONAIRE - 1924 WALLET SPECIAL - 26 MILLIONAIRE - 1923 MILLIONAIRE - 1922 MILLIONAIRE - 1921 MILLIONAIRE - 1920 MILLIONAIRE - 1919 MILLIONAIRE - 1918 MILLIONAIRE - 1917 MILLIONAIRE - 1916 MILLIONAIRE - 1915 Ingrese el número del billete: Enter the ticket number:

So what is it that people in the U.S. think when hearing about El Salvador or Nicaragua? A war back in the 1980's? Guess you have to be in my age group to know what all that was about. Many of you have seen in the 80's the influx of refugees coming in from war torn Central America. So indirectly, many of you are bi-products of this war. Many of my high school friends had been recruited into the intelligence community and even in military service during this time frame. In fact, many had been in those countries interrogating insurgents in U.S. doctrine to keep communism in check. But who paid the price? Lots of civilians.
When alot of my friends were supporting intelligence, I was aventually thrown into the thick of it in Honduras during that time when Nicaragua and El Salvador was having their wars. Honduras was a crucial player where many contras operated out of there. So what does this all mean?
I was talking the other day to a security guard exactly my age in San Salvador when he was telling me that during the war, insurgents made it into the capitol to destroy infastructure and knock out power for days. Imagine living like this? Never mind hurricanes or natural disasters, but actual warfare. I saw plenty of youngsters walking around, life is good now, no hardships encountered such as that experienced by their parents. In fact, many of these war refugees that came over in the 1980's have children that are Americanized and never experienced those hardships themselves.
So the next time you see a Salvadoran, Nicaraguan, Colombian, Mexican, Guatemalan, think about how they made it to the states, and how many family members they may have lost due to these wars. Many suffered torture, human rights abuses and flat out bombardments and executions.
I saw as I was walking around the malls down there people just trying to pound out a living, wanting to survive. Hopefully the war is behind them after now 20 years since peace was made. The scars of war take a long time to hear and hopefully, these people are on the right path.

Gen. D.P. McAuliffe dies at 90, witnessed liberation of Nazi death camps

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By Matt Schudel, The Washington Post
Posted Aug. 06, 2012, at 11:32 p.m.


D.P. McAuliffe, a retired Army lieutenant general who was one of the first U.S. soldiers to liberate a Nazi concentration camp during World War II and who, after his his military career, was the administrator of the Panama Canal, died July 31 at The Fairfax retirement facility in Fort Belvoir, Va. He was 90.
He had pneumonia, his son, Denny McAuliffe, said.
Less than six months after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 1944, Gen. McAuliffe was serving with the 89th Infantry Division in Europe as a field artillery officer. In a brief account of his career written by his family, he noted that he “walked across all of Germany” in the final months of World War II.
In April 1945, he was a young lieutenant in a unit that entered the Ohrdruf concentration camp, part of the larger German concentration camp of Buchenwald. Ohrdruf was the first Nazi concentration to fall into Allied hands, and, as Gen. McAuliffe wrote, “I was among the first Americans to see it.”
He recalled a scene that was beyond horrific. Among other things, he saw the corpses of three U.S. airmen who had been shot in the head.
“Inside the camp,” he wrote, “were thousands of bodies, of mostly Jewish men, stacked three to twelve feet high, unclothed, awaiting burning.”
In archival films of the liberation, Gen. McAuliffe can be seen ordering Nazi officials and local townspeople to enter a death chamber and view victims of the Holocaust. When three top Army generals — Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley and George S. Patton — visited the camp, Gen. McAuliffe was close enough to see the expressions on their faces.
“General Patton became ill,” he wrote, “excused himself, and threw up.”
Days later, Eisenhower described the scene in a letter to Gen. George C. Marshall.
“The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were . . . overpowering,” he wrote. “I made the visit deliberately in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.’ ”
Gen. McAuliffe participated in another grisly military operation later in his career. As commander-in-chief of the Army’s Southern Command in Panama in 1978, he helped organize the recovery and transportation of bodies from Jonestown, the settlement in Guyana where about 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones committed suicide.
After retiring from the Army as a three-star general in 1979, Gen. McAuliffe was named by President Jimmy Carter to be the administrator of the Panama Canal Commission. His job was to manage the difficult transition of the canal to Panamanian control, as mandated by a treaty.
During the 10 years he held the post, Gen. McAuliffe tried to fend off interference from the Panamanian military and government, as well as demands from Congress. He supervised a workforce of 8,000 that included almost 2,000 Americans, many of whom felt isolated and scorned in an increasingly hostile place.
Less than two weeks before Gen. McAuliffe retired in 1989, U.S. forces invaded Panama in an attempt to force strongman Manuel Noriega from power. The 50-mile canal was temporarily closed to traffic for the first time since it opened in 1914.
In testimony before Congress in 1991, Gen. McAuliffe said he had only 45 minutes’ warning before the invasion began.
“Had it been hit by artillery or mortar fire, it might well have caused a lengthy shutdown of the canal,” he said. “Pure luck, and nothing else, prevented a potential disaster.”
Dennis Philip McAuliffe — known casually as Phil — was born April 8, 1922, in New York City. His mother and father were Irish immigrants who worked as a maid and chauffeur, respectively.
He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., on June 6, 1944 — D-Day. He received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1950.
From 1967 to 1969, he was executive officer to Gen. Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In Vietnam in 1969 and 1970, Gen. McAuliffe was the senior adviser to Lt. Gen. Do Cao Tri, once described by Time magazine as the “best fighting general” in the South Vietnamese army. Tri was later killed in a crash of Gen. McAuliffe’s old helicopter.
In the 1970s, while based in Panama, Gen. McAuliffe tried unsuccessfully to encourage Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza — a fellow West Point graduate — to relax his grip on power in the face of oppostion. Somoza refused, but soon had to flee his country and ultimately was assassinated.
Gen. McAuliffe lived for many years near Alexandria, Va., in Fairfax County and was a member of Alexandria’s Good Shepherd Catholic Church. His military decorations included the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Service Medal, three awards of the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross and two Bronze Star Medals.
His wife of 64 years, Kathleen Bolton McAuliffe, died in 2011. Survivors include three children, Dennis P. “Denny” McAuliffe Jr., an editor at The Washington Post, of Clifton, Va., Kathie McAuliffe of Chantilly, Va., and Carolyn Shoemaker of Martinez, Ga.; three brothers; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Gen. McAuliffe organized reunions of the West Point Class of 1944 and of his World War II infantry division that had marched into Ohrdruf as some of the first witnesses of one of history’s most unspeakable atrocities.
His family knew nothing of his role in liberating the concentration camp until 1993, when he and other veterans took part in the dedication ceremony of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

I forgot to mention beings that this is a good source of information for cheap trips and hotels. INTERCONTINENTAL in San Salvador, 50 bucks per night for airline employees plus 18% tax. Just call that toll free number. Very nice pad indeed. Mall right across the street, bars right behind the hotel and in the hotel. For those interested in future travel to El Salvador.