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New Mexico town dissolves police dept after gun smuggling scandal
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| July 12,2011
| Liz Goodwin
Posted on 07/13/2011 8:16:54 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
These are the ones. My grandparents were given copies from someone in Columbus as they didn’t move there until the late 1940’s or early 1950s. Before that they lived in Afton, NM which is now called a ghost town but not sure why as there’s nothing there. It was located on the same portion of the SP as Columbus.
To: olereporter
Well that made me laugh. Which paper? My dad got all the papers from Deming for years mailed to him in Oregon. I found my birth announcement in the Deming Headlight from May 1945...on the front page no less. The newspapers were at Ancestry.com.
To: Portcall24
Interestingly, the site of Camp Furlong, the military base which Villa’s raiders attacked, is named for the perpetrator of the raid—Pancho Villa State Park.
To: Fiji Hill
I work for the Army next to Fort Lee, VA which is the home of Army Logistics. The headquarters here used to have photos of trucks being pulled out of the mud by horses and mules during General Pershing’s excursions into Mexico.
To: Navy Patriot
The BATF and the FBI didn’t like the competition. Supplying guns to Mexicans is their hustle.
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:58:58 AM PDT
by
SUSSA
To: Fiji Hill
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posted on
07/13/2011 11:09:46 AM PDT
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SUSSA
To: PetroniusMaximus
Vega, Espinoza, Gutierrez... It is a border town in NM. I wouldn't expect too many O'Briens or McDonalds there.
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07/13/2011 11:28:14 AM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(I retain the right to be inconsistent, contradictory and even flat-out wrong!)
To: snowrip
Inuits, the whole bunch are.
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posted on
07/13/2011 1:24:20 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Thank you for posting those pics.
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posted on
07/13/2011 1:26:03 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
To: Navy Patriot
Chief Angelo Vega, Mayor Eddie Espinoza, Village Trustee Blas Gutierrez go figure....they are Americans, aren't they? /s
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07/13/2011 1:27:47 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: B4Ranch; Portcall24; gunnyg
You do know that a few years after Pancho’s death someone opened his grave and stole his head.
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posted on
07/13/2011 1:52:05 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Click my name. See my home page, if you dare! NEW PHOTOS!)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I thought that was Alfredo Garcia...
To: Portcall24
I worked for the Deming Headlight for three years. Then I went to Silver City and worked for the Daily Press for about seven years.
I moved to Nebraska to be closer to my kids and grandkids and was editor of my hometown newspaper until I retired. That was the same daily paper where I started as sports editor-reporter when I was 19.
I love New Mexico.
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posted on
07/13/2011 4:25:05 PM PDT
by
olereporter
(Today's media should be held accountable for journalistic malfeasance and First Amendment abuse.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Didn’t they move his body so thieves would not rob any more body parts?
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07/13/2011 5:33:02 PM PDT
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B4Ranch
(Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
To: Navy Patriot
This village is not too far from me and has always been shady...rumor is the smuggling politicians also looted the village money so they can’t replace the arrested people or continue to pay the others. It is just as well, the place is too small to need a police force anyway- it is just a wide spot in the road.
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07/14/2011 1:15:06 AM PDT
by
Tammy8
(~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
To: olereporter
After I watched the movie,
All Those Pretty Horses I got interested in Cormac McCarthy. I ended up reading just about everything hes written. A number of his books of fiction are set in Southern New Mexico and across the border. While the characters are fictional, I assume, the landmarks, locations, etc are very faithful. I enjoyed keeping a map handy to cross-reference the travels. If youve never read him let me share a couple of differences. When there are Mexicans involved and speaking Spanish he uses that language and one needs to have at least a rough working knowledge of Spanish to follow, as theres no translation. The other thing he does is writes with limited punctuation. Therefore he doesnt use quotes for speech but simply indents with new paragraphs when the characters speak. It takes a moment to become comfortable reading this style but it does accomplish what he attempts
not to clutter the page with punctuation. His best well known work is probably
No Country For Old Men. He also wrote,
The Road which was also done as a movie. Its about a man and his son after total collapse of society due to some cataclysmic event in this Country. One had to work hard to find any Hope in that movie.
I'll be spending 6 weeks in El Paso starting in late September testing software at Fort Bliss. I expect to get to Alamo to see relatives on my late Mom's side and to Deming to visit the grave of my paternal grandparents.
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