Vieques

He saw firsthand how the U.S. was mobilized.

using Puerto Rico as a colony, especially in Vieques, using it as a place for testing munitions.

And so he was always very critical of the U.S. military-industrial complex, I guess you could say, and imperialism.

And so he simply did not get up and line up for God Bless America when he was playing for the Blue Jays.

Culebra.

Vieques.

St. Thomas, St. John.

British Virgin Islands.

How are you? I'm doing good.

Now, can we get a forecast for today here in the territory and Culebra, Vieques, and Puerto Rico?

Yeah.

So we are having some passing showers across the island, and we will have that influence from an upper-level low to the west of us.

My grandmother wrote a piece.

I'm half Puerto Rican, and my grandmother was born and raised in Vieques, Puerto Rico, and she wrote a piece, Temple of the Souls, which was a musical.

And we turned it into a musical.

She actually wrote an opera libretto.

Puerto Rico, on the other hand, has very few, excepting on the eastern side.

There the waters are dotted with little islands and reefs, of which Vieques, the principal one, was used by the Spaniards as a military prison.

soldiers were kept there when convicted of crime the lonely island of desecho off the western coast is the home of millions of sea-birds that build their nests among its rocks as we pass by on the steamship these birds present a striking picture fluttering over their young soaring above the water or diving beneath its surface in search of food as may be seen by reference to a map of the west indies the whole island protruding above the surface of the water is a section of the great ridge which extends lengthwise over both north and south america and of which cuba and santo domingo are also portions the land on the west side of the island ends in abrupt cliffs while on the east the ridge continues unbroken save that all except the portion which appears as small islands is under the surface of the water We will land at San Juan.

Farther west there is no good harbor on the northern coast.

Salinas, named from its salt deposits, has a good harbor and a flourishing trade.

Carolina, Camuy, Loisa, Isabela, Rincon, Dorado, Luquillo, all of them on or near the coast, are of commercial value to the island.

Vieques, an island belonging to Puerto Rico, lies 13 miles to the east.

Vieques is 21 miles long and 6 wide.

Puerto Rico, on the other hand, has very few, excepting on the eastern side.

There the waters are dotted with little islands and reefs of which Vieques, the principal one, was used by the Spaniards as a military prison.

Soldiers were kept there when convicted of crime.

The lonely island of Desecho, off the western coast, is the home of millions of seabirds that build their nests among its rocks.

Salinas, named from its salt deposits, has a good harbor and a flourishing trade.

Carolina, Camuy, Loisa, Isabela, Rincon, Dorado, Luquillo, all of them on or near the coast, are of commercial value to the island.

Vieques, an island belonging to Puerto Rico, lies 13 miles to the east.

Vieques is 21 miles long and 6 wide.

My grandfather was from the same area.

And then my other grandparents was from Vieques.

So my father migrated as a young man to the Virgin Islands.

My mother was born here in the Virgin Islands.