Remember little Elian Gonzalez?

http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/CB-Cuba-Elian-Gonzalez/2010/04/05/id/354827?s=al&promo_code=9B41-1

Elian is now 16, a supporter of "the Revolution", it seems, but then why would the Cuban government be so watchful of Elian and his father.

When Janet Reno had the Feds raid his grandparents' home in Little Havana, my heart stood still. I remember his panicked face and his tears as he was snatched.

I can feel, as a mother, the hope and the danger she experienced in that raft before she died. America. The promised land. He son would make it even if she didn't. And he did.

If my great grandparents or my grandmother were alive, they would be working to free Cuba from the shackles of "the Revolution". They knew what dictators were like. Grandma had a lapse there for a couple of weeks when Castro took over the Dakota in NYC and got caught with live chickens, presumably meals on feet.

I can only wonder what kind of young man Elian would be now, here.

I can only wonder if he remembers the crossing; the loss of his mother; the trauma of his six years.

And I wonder if he can still remember what it felt like to be free, even for just a little while.