The morning of Santa Ana, that July 26, 1953, predicted a heroic and painful page of our history. On that date, several young revolutionaries fell during the assaults on the Moncada in Santiago de Cuba, and the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks in Bayamo.
Artemisa gave about twenty of her best children to that cause. One of them was Carmelo Noa Gil, who was convinced that the fate of Cuba could not be left to a tyrant, and clandestinely, he prepared to face it. The Capellanías estate became one of the most used scenarios by Carmelo, Julito Díaz, Ciro Redondo, Pepe Suárez and other artemiseños, for the practice of shooting as part of the training of future combatants.
Two days before the actions of July 26, 1953, Carmelo requested a few days off at the dairy where he worked because he was going to leave town. With his walk, more quickly than usual, he said goodbye to his mother and left the house for the city of Santiago de Cuba, not knowing that it would be the last time he would see his family.
He was one of the revolutionaries selected to take post 3 during the assault on the Moncada barracks due to his courage and precise aim.
He fulfilled the word determined: "... when the first shot sounds, there I will be", because he saw in the armed struggle the pressing solution for the evils of the republic.
With only 27 years, he defined his life in favor of the Homeland, and fell in the fulfillment of the most difficult mission of the attack, which he carried out in response to Fidel's confidence. Carmelo Noa Gil was noble and with a firm conviction despite his youth. He had told his mother that when he had to die he would be buried where Marti is buried.
As he requested, his body rested a few steps from the Mausoleum that the Apostle's remains are kept in the necropolis of Santa Ifigenia, in Santiago de Cuba until the Mausoleum was built to the Martyrs of Artemis. The assault on Moncada, which many people considered a failure, became an inspiration to continue the fight; and Carmelo Noa Gil was one of Artemis's martyrs who honored the Cuban flag with their blood.
