Haiti, 1995 - Operation Uphold Democracy

Well it looks like Haiti is back in the news again, for all the wrong reasons. Lets take a ride through history, to nine years ago. Back when I was a young soldier in the US army, and images of the gulf war (the first one) were fresh in our minds. The dragon of communism, a danger for fifty years, had been vanquished and our nation’s military were trying to understand their new role in a changing world.