Many on the EZByc know this, but I'll tell it again. I was born in Coral Gables, Florida and at 3 days old was adopted. My parents were teens in the middle of a divorce. In 1999, after my adoptive mother died, my dad gives me the adoption papers. Contrary to what I'd been told, my birthname "Fuller" was on them. Through a series of events, I tracked down my birth family with the help of a wonderful adoption researcher volunteer named Mary and a woman named Janet Ray Weininger-you can google her and find out her work for Cuba and Nicaragua, etc. My father, Robert Otis Fuller's family was American, but owned thousands of acres in Cuba, where they did lots of business. The land was taken by Castro during his rise to power. Bobby Fuller, a marine, joined up with a group of mercenaries and snuck onto Cuba's shores, only to be captured and summarily executed as a spy by firing squad, in spite of his mother's pleadings to Fidel Castro, an acquaintance.
My mother had died 10 years previous to me finding all this of liver cancer, probably actually cirrhosis, and I had a sister two years older. Three years after finding my sister, she died of cancer of the retina about her 49th birthday. No other relatives exist that I know of. My sister, upon hearing of Janet Weininger's search for her father's body, a pilot shot down and executed during the Bay of Pigs, decided to sue Cuba over our father's death. She died during that lawsuit. Bobby Fuller's siblings and my sister's husband took over the suit, won a judgement for millions of dollars, and that's the last I heard, except that her husband remarried a couple of years later.
To find out more about Janet Weininger's humitarian missions, check out her website:
http://www.wingsofvalor.org/
And to find out about Bobby Fuller, check out these sites:
http://cuban-exile.com/doc_226-250/doc0245.html
