[URGENT] Were any of you in Grenada (1983)??

Hello everyone!

I urgently need witnesses of the 1983 US Invasion of Grenada. If you were either in the military at the time or were on the island during the invasion, please email me with answers to the questions at the bottom of this. I am doing a historical investigation into the invasion as part of my IB Diploma (http://www.ibo.org), and would really appreciate these eyewitness accounts.

My topic is determining whether or not the invasion was justified.

Please email answers to these questions ASAP. No time to lose!. If you were part of the invasion of Grenada (either caribbean or US active/administrative , or citizen of Grenada witnessing the events before/during/after)

Questions

Q1: What was your role in the invasion of Grenada?

Q2: How did the invasion take place? Do you feel it was rushed?

Q3: What were you told about American citizens on Grenada? How did this agree/differ from what you saw?

Q4: How were you recieved by the Grenadian people?

Q5: Did you confront any Cubans? Did they seem like military personell?

Q6: What had you been told about the political climate in Grenada at the time?

Q7: What were your objectives in Operation Urgent Fury?

Q8: Where you involved in Operation Universal Trek (mock invasion of Grenada, 1981)?, What can you say about it?

Q9: Do you feel the invasion was due to the communist government of Grenada, or for the reasons presented by Reagan (protection of American citizens, resotre stability after coup, request of OECS...etc)

Q10: Do you feel the invasion was justified?

#284410

hah what the hell?

#284413

I think most of the people here finished their homework already.

#284416

hey man,

i can't help you, but i DID do the IB programme. good stuff, and the credits will help you in university.

is this for your extended essay? anyway, hope it works out well!

#284419

This was more than 20 years ago and most of the poeple on this board are too young to have been in the military back then, myself included. And I'm 35.

And some of the questions you are asking with regards to operational objectives by military personal are still considered classified. And before anyone opens their yap... my father was there when he was in the U.S. Navy.

There are things he still cannot discuss.

I will say this... you sure picked a very strange one for your final paper.

#284421

Should've taken ITGS boy - tough subject to get resources on :slant:

Good luck with your IB - boy, theres a couple of us IB'd freaks in here :|

#284423

Yup! GO IB!!!

Isn't this due really soon and is something you had at least two years to do?

#284429

Weird. I'm in IB Year 1 right now (Grade 11). Didn't think I would come across people in the programme on a non-academic website.

#284451

well. good to know there's more people here done the IB (it sure is tough..)

this is for my Internal Assesment in History, not my Extended Essay

Though come to think about it, was anyone here in Mao's China during the Great Leap Forward?

This is just a shot in the dark, if I'm really lucky and god loves me, there will be someone here who was there

#284536

The chances of you finding someone that was there are extremely slim - i honestly dont think you will.

ITGS though, that would have gotten you replies -tsk tsk tsk...

#284542

yea, well... our school doesn't offer ITGS

#284760

what the hell is an IB?

#284915

well. good to know there's more people here done the IB (it sure is tough..)

this is for my Internal Assesment in History, not my Extended Essay

Though come to think about it, was anyone here in Mao's China during the Great Leap Forward?

This is just a shot in the dark, if I'm really lucky and god loves me, there will be someone here who was there

I remember my English teacher talking about a time when he said that Mao would die in front of all his old students, and Mao died like..3 days later.

o_o;

Maybe I could ask him.

#284919

chairman mao.. now thats a character. lol

hard to believe it happened not so long ago

#285111

what the hell is an IB?

#285112

And, if you do get the Diploma (and not by just getting 24) it gets you scholarships and it makes you jump freshmen years in some universities (/me coughs repeatedly)

#285113