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If for Fidel he was "the most valuable, the most useful, the most extraordinary of our combatants", and Raúl defined him as "brave to the point of recklessness and (...) the type of men who penetrate deeply and definitively into the heart of the people", the affection with which Cuba remembers Frank País, made him "the unforgettable one." He was barely 18 years old on July 26, 1953, when, awakened by the shooting of the Moncada assault, he knew that his path would also be to fight against Batista's tyranny. In that eagerness, the reason for his existence, he entered immortality just four years later, after being assassinated in the streets of Santiago, on Tuesday, July 30, just 64 almanacs ago. Pages of deep dedication, a high sense of responsibility and unquestionable leadership, would be the uprising of November 30, 1956, which in support of the Granma landing premiered the olive green uniform in Santiago de Cuba, and the organization of the shipment of weapons and men to the nascent Rebel Army. The prison did not crush his resolution: "the day there is a single Cuban who believes in this revolution, that Cuban will be me," he said, despite the fierce persecution of the regime, responsible for his death. They say that the shots of the cowardly crime provoked in every corner of the city a tragic presentiment, which later became acute pain, more terrible in the chest of his comrades and companions in the fight, of his girlfriend, of the mother who, to control the blood generously, she plugged, one by one, the 36 piercings in the body of her beloved son. The crowd that accompanied, amid revolutionary slogans, his burial and that of the fallen comrade next to him, Raúl Pujol, showed that Frank País remained alive in the memory of the honored people of his people. Symbol of the best of his generation, the date of his death marks the Day of the Martyrs of the Revolution, leading them Frank, still standing, impetuous and mobilizing, in every hour of danger to the homeland.