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23 F

guess compared to 23 F I must belong to a generation lost. That is, we have many years to remember the time but then did not know what it meant what was happening. I remember perfectly that day, and one afternoon a few weeks earlier, doing homework in my house and Adolfo Suarez on TV announcing his resignation. I was eleven years on 23 February 1981, and a colleague did not go to school the next day, but what attracted our attention to those that we were that night had made a few movies for keep spectators entertained. I never knew if it was true or an exaggeration of a colleague, but that was the biggest news for me, I liked both movies, and secretly thought that if the deputies had another night locked in Congress could achieve the same for a long night film session, if I left.

From that day I have no memories of fear, or even uncertainty. How would have eleven years in the town of Seville. Maybe, if the survey had been extended, although it had been just one more night, yes I would have realized what was happening. They might have been disappearing little by little my fellow desk as a precaution, or maybe I myself would not have returned to class until things had calmed down. Who knows.

Thirty years later, the images coming in Tejero full investiture session Calvo Sotelo thrill, but also as they come to light new data, from the perspective of time produces a shame to see a handful of Civil Guards nostalgic for Franco hitting shots, and the tapes with recordings of voices and García Tejero Carrés, the only civilian processed by the blow, shouting the name of Spain as his own and nobody else. These "live Spain" in 1981 now even seem ridiculous. But now, listening to more than one pronounce the name of Spain in this way cocky, barracks, as if they belonged or biting into a mouthful that only they could prove just as the coup thirty years ago, I the chill I should have felt then, if not understand what was happening. I guess it's a matter of perspective: perhaps in thirty years, have eleven years now feel embarrassed to study the discourse of some politicians and pundits of television today.

© Andrés Pérez Domínguez, February 2011.