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Pancho Villa Remains Elusive Decades After His Death
WSJ ^
| 15 April 2010
| NICHOLAS CASEY
Posted on 04/15/2010 6:34:48 AM PDT by Palter
Edited on 04/15/2010 6:36:25 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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Body Parts Are Scattered All Over the Place; A Trigger Finger in an El Paso Pawn Shop?
In life, Pancho Villa was a bandit, a general, a folk hero. In short, he embodied the Mexican Revolution. In death, however, his body is a tricky one to find.
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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: border; mexico; panchovilla
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posted on
04/15/2010 6:34:49 AM PDT
by
Palter
To: Palter
PV's dead carcass was served up for breakfast at the behest of Generals GP and JP at an officer's mess in 1927.
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posted on
04/15/2010 6:42:29 AM PDT
by
bsf2009
To: Palter
Pawnbroker: "What'cha got for us today Pancho?"
Pancho: "Just open the cash drawer and pull my finger."
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posted on
04/15/2010 6:42:58 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Liberty Valance
I have a picture of Pancho Villa and what makes it special is my husband’s grandfather took it.
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posted on
04/15/2010 6:46:52 AM PDT
by
tiki
(True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
To: bsf2009
*** correction - in 1927 GP was an army major.
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posted on
04/15/2010 6:47:27 AM PDT
by
bsf2009
To: Palter
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posted on
04/15/2010 6:48:09 AM PDT
by
posterchild
(Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
To: tiki
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posted on
04/15/2010 6:48:58 AM PDT
by
bsf2009
To: bsf2009
Was Villa a villain or a modern day Robin Hood?
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posted on
04/15/2010 6:49:47 AM PDT
by
ZULU
To: tiki
Great story. Hang on to that photo. ;o)
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posted on
04/15/2010 6:50:22 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: ZULU
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posted on
04/15/2010 6:52:16 AM PDT
by
bsf2009
To: ZULU
"This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
TMWS Liberty Valance
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posted on
04/15/2010 6:56:45 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: ZULU; bsf2009
Was Villa a villain or a modern day Robin Hood? One place to start looking is if people died, if people died because of the man, then who were the people and what were the circumstances and reasons and so on.
I'm not an expert on Villa, but I have always seen him as a bad man.
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posted on
04/15/2010 6:20:31 PM PDT
by
ansel12
( Mitt Romney would have to advance two more evolutionary steps to qualify as pond scum.)
To: Palter
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posted on
04/15/2010 7:21:06 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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