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To: haqihana who wrote (132182)	8/13/2005 12:18:22 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793845

Are you sure? I was thinking he was some kind of Mexican bigshot? Anyhow, my great uncle was an oil wildcatter, Poncho Villa and his men "arrested" him out in the desert. Took all his clothes except for his long johns and took his boots too then left him to die. He made it back to safety though. jdn

To: haqihana who wrote (132182)	8/15/2005 9:05:52 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793845

Villa was just a bandit The Harvard educated journalist John Reed saw Villa as a great revolutionary. He spent a few months with Villa and wrote glowing dispatches for various American magazines. When the Bolsheviks came along Reed became enamored with Lenin. And so it goes.... One of my favorite pieces of bric a brac I've collected is a recruiting poster for Pancho Villa's army. It looks something like this: WE NEED YOU GRINGO the last adventure its here -- fight in the -- MEXICAN REVOLUTION [there is a photo of Villa on horseback here] and be proud to ride with PANCHO VILLA Enlistments Taken In Juarez, Mexico January 1915 VIVA VILLA! VIVA la Revolución! I wonder how many gringo adventurers signed up. <g>