CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill decided to celebrate Veterans Day by posting an image of women in Cuba’s revolutionary army.

It wasn’t long before someone pointed out the soldiers in the photo were Cuban, at which point Hill deleted the tweet and said it was a mistake:

In responding to a story about the image at another news site, Hill explained what he’d been trying to do:

Hill maintained that he wasn’t trolling people on Veterans Day, he just made a mistake: