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Mimi, thank you for your dedication to all Latino history. Recently found out that Victor Espinoza, is the first Mexican/Latino to win the Triple Crown! Originally from Mexico, one of the youngest children of a large family. He learned to ride very early in life and worked in the stables. Now he is a millionaire and donated 10% of his earnings to the City of Hope in Duarte. He is down to earth and a good person.

Two weeks ago, while on a tour of Santa Anita race track he was out there greeting the visitors. For other details look him up on the internet. He's a good person! Bert Saavedra bertbluzz@verizon.net Dear Mimi: I was deeply touched by your prayer of thanksgiving in your announcement of the November issue of SOMOS PRIMOS, and I give special thanks to you, our dear Mimi Lozano, for publishing the magnificent SOMOS PRIMOS ONLINE MAGAZINE, which serves as a beacon of enlightenment to people all over the world!

Your Texan friend, Robert H. Thonhoff Another fabulous edition Somos Primos. Sandra Ramos O'Briant Mimi,You are the greatest! Much love and prayers to you and yours! Somos fan in the Mojave Desert, CA mailmags1@gmail.com Hello my name is Virginia Salcido and I am would like to say how much I enjoy looking at the photographs that you all share.

Thank you Hello,Just a note to say hello and that I enjoy your emails. They provide a worthwhile break from writing my next novel, Beneath the Super Moon the third in my Suzanna trilogy. Irene Blea Dr. Irene Blea, author of Daughters of the West Mesa, will be featured in the up-coming A & E docuseries on unsolved serial killings in the U.S. This latest novel is based on the true story of the discovery of 11 female remains of women of color and an unborn fetus west of Albuquerque. Editor Mimi: Wanda Garcia, daughter of Dr. Garcia received this email wanted to share with Somos Primos readers.

Wanda, Hope you don't mind me call you by your first name. As we get older we get to take certain privileges. So please excuse me but now that I'm knotting the latter part of the seventies. I take that privilege. Hadn't hear from you for some time. Missed your wonderful emails. I really enjoyed this one brings home many memories.

I also agree with your fathers quote “We do not know our history and a people who have no history are lost.” Our history is buried in allot of old cemeteries and we need to dig them up because it is our history. We have the stories that our parents left us but we rarely speak of them. Thank you for this wonderful story of a family like the Lozano's. There are so many families like that. Maybe you can write a book on them? God Bless you and keep you well.

God Bless + Jose M. Garcia PNC National Service Officer Catholic War Veterans josegarcia4@sbcglobal.net “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” “In God we Trust'. Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack by Steve Twomay Pearl Harbor, Ellswell oil fields, and 9-11, historic attacks against the United States by Mimi Lozano Profile of U.S. Veterans is changing dramatically as their ranks decline by Gretchen Livingston History Rocks: Mount Rushmore, 75th Anniversary Feeling Awe May Be the Secret to Health and Happiness by Paula Spencer Scott Died from gunfire but came back from the dead with a tale of forgiveness Fairfax gives its artists a stage in downtown San Anselmo, California El Padrecito, Mexican American Parishioners from our Lady of Guadalupe Church by Gilberto Quezada The Loss of a Loved One by Gilberto Quezada History Archivist, author reminisces on Azteca, J. Gilberto Quezada by Odie Arambula 50th anniversary of the university's Educational Opportunity Program Too Bad You're Latin by John Leguizamo Reckless, a hero horse, a 'forgotten' war, both revisited Victor Espinoza, is the first Mexican/Latino to win the Triple Crown! Through horse-training program, inmates also learn to tame themselves by Rich Pedroncelli. As Hollywood regularly reminds us, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec.

7, 1941, was an act of duplicity so monstrous that President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it a “date which will live in infamy.” Japanese warplanes appeared without warning early that Sunday, sinking or disabling 16 U.S. Battleships, cruisers and other warships.

The sneak attack killed more than 2,400 Americans and forced the reluctant nation into the caldron of. As Hollywood regularly reminds us, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, was an act of duplicity so monstrous that President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it a “date which will live in infamy.”. =================================== =================================== But the iconic images and stirring oratory largely overshadowed disturbing questions of culpability.

Why was the Navy’s Pacific Fleet caught at anchor? Why did the Army provide no defense?

And was the attack really a surprise? Nine official inquiries during and after the war sought answers, and historians, survivors and conspiracy theorists have weighed in ever since.

In the 1990s, new details emerged about the secret interception of pre-war Japanese diplomatic cables, raising fresh questions of how much Washington knew. In “Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack,” Steve Twomey, who was a Pulitzer prize-winning feature writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer, has mined the copious testimony, memoirs, oral histories and other evidence to produce a riveting narrative of the American misjudgments and mistakes that contributed to a day rivaled in U. Error 1723 Windows Installer Package Windows 7 more. S. History only by Sept.

It’s not revisionist history so much as a poignant retelling of a familiar story: gross negligence by Navy and Army commanders in Hawaii, multiple miscommunications from top officials in Washington, and agonizing failures of American leadership and imagination. Their adversary, primarily Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, had both. Inveterate gambler, he bet he could lead six aircraft carriers and two dozen other warships halfway across the Pacific — despite the dangers of discovery and difficulties of mid-ocean refueling — to deliver a knockout blow at the start of the war. He almost succeeded. No one had ever massed aircraft carriers for a coordinated attack. But the Imperial Navy had understood the carriers’ value, building ten by the end of 1941.

Navy, still wedded to archaic battleships, had only three carriers in the Pacific. The Navy saw Pearl Harbor as a refuge.

The Japanese saw it as a bulls-eye, “a barrel crammed with fish, tied up and stationary, without room to maneuver and only one way out, a narrow channel that was susceptible to blockage.” There was plenty of blame to go around but Twomey wisely focuses on a handful of key Americans. He writes sympathetically of their struggles to understand the growing danger. They were overconfident, not complacent, too quick to dismiss Japan’s military as second-rate and blind to the threat of modern aircraft armed with torpedoes. =================================== =================================== The warning didn’t mention Hawaii. And Kimmel could not conceive of a Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. His fleet couldn’t sail all the way to Japan in secret, launch a major attack and get away.

If he couldn’t do it, he reasoned, neither could the Japanese. Thus he took no precautions to guard the fleet at anchor. He ordered no submarine or torpedo nets, no blimps over the ships with cables to tangle aircraft, no 24-hour radar net, no search planes on offshore patrol, no crews manning anti-aircraft guns, no orders for the Arizona and other doomed warships to leave the crowded harbor, no heightened alerts at all In Washington, the chiefs assumed — but never checked — that he had moved the armada out of danger and had readied a defense. Kimmel’s Army counterpart in Hawaii, Lt.

Short, known as “Machine Gun Short,” was just as short-sighted. His concern was local sabotage, not an air attack from ships.

He and Kimmel barely communicated; their separate headquarters didn’t even have a direct phone line. Each thought the other was in charge of defending Oahu.

Thus neither was prepared when 350 Japanese planes roared out of the rising sun, carrying out a mission that neither thought was possible. The damage was not as severe as Yamamoto had hoped. His pilots inexplicably failed to hit fuel oil tank farms near the harbor or the dry docks needed to repair the stricken ships. The Navy would soon recover. More importantly, by chance Kimmel had sent his carriers to deliver fighter planes to Midway and Wake several days earlier. The Enterprise and Lexingtonlater would prove invaluable at the crucial battles of Midway and Coral Sea.

Pearl Harbor, Ellswell oil fields, and 9-11: Historic attacks against and on US soil by Mimi Lozano The USS Arizona burned after being hit by a Japanese armor-piercing bomb in the second wave of the attack. Four bombs hit the Arizona, last one penetrating her ammunition magazines, 500 tons of explosives. The ship burned for two days, and 1,177 crew members were killed. 'It remains the greatest loss of life on any warship in American history'. I was an eight year old and have many memories of World War II. The shock of the Japanese attack shook the nation.

The country was numb, unable to accept the fact that our nation had been invaded. Christmas 1941 was passed in a whisper. One memory warned of the possibility of invasion of the continent. In early 1942, I remember standing on the front lawn of our East L.A.

Home with my folks. Looking northwest. We could see red and gold colored flames, and thick dark black smoke. We could also hear a string of explosive booming sounds. I remember my Dad solemnly explaining it was the Japanese attacking Santa Barbara with submarines. Very soon after the shelling of the Santa Barbara coast, Dad moved us forty miles inland into a rented house.

Very little is included in most US History books about the attacks by the Japanese on California. Most people are not event aware that it happened. Thanks to the internet, I was able to very easily find the information. On February 23, 1942, the Japanese shelled the Ellswell oil fields in Santa Barbara.

'The event marked the first shelling of the North American mainland.' I remember childhood fears of the future, reinforced by family tears, and the radical changes after the December 7, 1941Pearl Harbor attack. The 1942 Ellswell attack was physical proof that a foreign country was scheming to invade our country and take our freedom away. Sixty years later, on September 11, our country was again attacked on our soil.

September 11, 2001, I was at the airport on my way to Washington, D.C. For a Hispanic Task Force meeting.

With no explanation, our flight was delayed repeatedly Occupying my time, I took a walk. I noticed a very animated group looking a TV news piece.

Edging in for a better view, I saw flames, and realized the horror.... The United States, had been attacked. Shortly, an announcement was made that all flights were cancelled.

We were directed to collect our luggage and leave the airport immediately. Like everyone else, I went down to retrieve my luggage. I decided to wait until the commotion was over. I sat quietly over to the side, out the way. My eyes were open, but I did not seem to see what was happening. It seemed shortly that an airport staff member asked me why I was still there. I answered that I was waiting for my luggage.

He said all the luggage was out. I looked around and realized that except for the young man, I was the only other person there.

The entire baggage claim area was empty, only a few unclaimed pieces of luggage were over on one side. I quickly found my luggage and called my husband to pick me up. I don't know how long I sat there, with my eyes open, not reacting, not seeing what action to take, my mind was suspended. I may have been experiencing some form of shock, perhaps the hidden emotional memories of an 8 year old are still with me. I am fully awake now, and know that with the current availability of information, we can be informed. As responsible citizens, we need to act to protect our nation... From those determined to destroy us.

It is up to us to protect our right to freedom of speech and religion. Everything else will follow.

Not being politically correct, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. History Rocks: Mount Rushmore 75th Anniversary This year marks the 75th of another important anniversary, Mount Rushmore, the stony face of American history and progress. It took a crew of about 400 men 14 years to blast and sculpt the 60-foot-high granite likenesses of four former presidents— George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln—into the side of the mountain now known as Rushmore, located in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

The plan to attract tourists to the region was rock solid: Today, the awe-inspiring monument draws about 3 million visitors from all over the globe each year. More than a patriotic symbol, Mount Rushmore has made it to the big screen with cameos in films including North by Northwest (1959) and National'Treasure (2004). With an estimated erosion rate of 1 inch every 10,000 years, it's likely that this particular national treasure will stand tall for many anniversaries to come. If you can't make it to the real rock for this one, watch a replica of Mount Rushmore float by in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC Nov.

(all time zones). — Becky Hughes Visit Parttde.com/monument for 10 fun facts about Mount Rushmore 6 I NOVEMBER 20, 2016. Profile of U.S. Veterans is changing dramatically as their ranks decline by Gretchen Livingston =================================== =================================== The U.S. Is in the midst of a significant long-term shift in both the size and profile of its veteran population. The share of the population with military experience – counting those who are on active duty or were in the past – has fallen by more than half since 1980. Then, 18% of adults were serving or had served in the military.

By 2014, the share had declined to 8%, according to Census Bureau data, with an additional 1% serving in the reserves. Men, the decline was even more dramatic, dropping from 45% in 1960 to 37% in 1980 and 16% in 2014. The number of people currently on active duty has also dropped significantly in the past half-century, falling from 3.1 million in 1966 – during the military draft era – to 1.3 million in today’s all-voluntary force, less than 1% of all U.S. However, the decline in the share of the population with military experience has been driven primarily by the shrinking number of U.S. Veterans as many pass away. In 1980, 18% of U.S. Adults were veterans, compared with 8% in 2014, according to census data.

=================================== =================================== In the years to come, the profile of veterans will continue to shift. VA projections suggest that by 2043, the total number of U.S. Veterans will have dropped to about 14.5 million. By that time, most of those who served in the Vietnam era and earlier will have died. Gulf War-era veterans will likely comprise the majority of all vets, based upon the VA model, while those who served since the Gulf War are projected to account for a quarter of the veteran population. The demographic profile of veterans is also expected to change in the coming decades, reflecting the shifting demographic profile of the military in general.

Between 2013 and 2043, the share of all veterans who are women will almost double, from 9% up to 17%, according to VA projections. At the same time, the share ages 50 to 69 is expected to shrink from 42% to 34%, while the share ages 70 or older is expected to rise from 30% to 36%. Mirroring trends in the overall U.S. Population, the veteran population is predicted to become more racially and ethnically diverse, as well. Between 2013 and 2043, the share of non-Hispanic white veterans is projected to fall from 78% to 64%, while the share of Hispanic vets will likely double, from 7% to 14%. Despite the declining presence of veterans in the U.S., many Americans still have close connections with people who have served in the military.

A 2011 Pew Research Center survey found that 61% of Americans had an immediate family member who served. However, this closeness to military personnel is fading among younger people. For instance, while about eight-in-ten adults (79%) ages 50 to 64 reported having an immediate family member who served, just one-third of those ages 18 to 29 said the same. Awe alters our bodies. Awe is the positive emotion that most strongly predicts reduced levels of cytokines, a marker of inflammation that’s linked to depression, according to research from University of Toronto’s Jennifer Stellar. That suggests a possible role in health and healing, and may help explain the raft of recent studies that have linked exposure to nature with lower blood pressure, stronger immune systems and more. Researchers even wonder whether a lack of nature and other opportunities for feeling awe might add to the stresses and health damage that come from living in urban blight or poverty.

Minister and gospel singer Tony Davis at his Irvine, California, home on Wednesday, Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG died from gunfire but came back from the dead with a tale of forgiveness Nov. 14, 2016 / STAFF WRITER October 12, 2016. Davis went to pick up his wife at work in Los Angeles was shot five times by a gang member and was declared dead at the hospital. Davis woke up 30 minutes after doctors declared him dead.

His book 'Heaven is Real' talks about what happen during the 30 minutes and his quest to bring love and forgiveness to this world. Tony Davis stopped by a South Los Angeles home to pick up his wife, Chriselda, a health care worker who assisted the mentally ill, on the night of June 30, 2003, when his car was hit by gunfire. Police officers arrived, took his statements and left.

Davis, a devout Christian, recording artist and ordained minister who had moved to Los Angeles from Atlanta with his wife in 1997 to sing rhythm and blues, watched a tow truck approach to take his car to the shop. ============================================= Then there was a second hail of bullets. The tow truck driver backed up and sped away.

Blood poured from a bullet wound in Davis’ left leg. He felt more bullets pierce his flesh and lodge into his face and chest. “Oh my God, enough!” he shouted at the shooter, who stood behind a tree, gun in hand.

Davis could see the silhouette of the slightly built teen. “Stop,” he yelled again. “In the name of Jesus!” Davis could see the hand that held the gun shake a little and heard these words escape the young man’s mouth: “Oh my God, what have I done?” Davis collapsed to the ground in a pool of blood. He called his wife and told her he’d been shot. His arms flopped. His eyes closed.

Tony Davis, shot five times, declared dead, talks about his ordeal Chriselda Davis heard the gunshots and thought they were fireworks. Then, she got the call from her husband that he’d been shot in front of the house. She ran outside.

“There he was laid out in blood,” she said. “He wasn’t breathing. They did CPR.” Police found 32 empty shells at the scene around Davis’ body. He had five entry wounds and five exit wounds. Davis lost 40 percent of his blood.

Chriselda Davis was told paramedics got a heartbeat from her husband on the way to the hospital. He immediately was taken into surgery at USC’s trauma center, where he was worked on for seven hours.

“The doctors told me he died on the table,” Chriselda Davis said. But as a doctor was about to throw a white sheet over Tony Davis' body, the shooting victim he thought had been dead for 30 minutes took a deep breath and opened his eyes, Davis recounted. DEAD ON THE OPERATING TABLE Medical records provided by Davis show he was admitted to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, underwent surgery and that he suffered five gunshot wounds. The Register was not able to contact doctors who attended to Davis at the time.

But Humberto Sauri, a trauma surgeon at Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, says he has never witnessed anything like what Davis is describing. “Over the course of 16 years, I’ve had a couple of patients who came awfully close to dying and we were able to revive them,” Sauri said.

“Usually when you have people come in with a penetrating injury to the chest or heart, once you plug the hole, you could quickly resuscitate them even if their heartbeat is low or if they’re not breathing.” But, Sauri said he has never heard of a case where a person “comes back” after doctors declare him dead and make no attempt to revive him. Doctors would declare a person dead if he or she doesn’t have a heartbeat, is not breathing and doesn’t have neurological function, he said. “You hear these stories,” he said. “But the story is really in the details. How did the doctors at the time look for signs of life?” Davis tells his understanding of the story: He died, went to heaven and came back to tell the tale. He said when he fell to the ground, shot, he felt his heartbeat slow and then stop.

He said he saw a woman in white, glowing, and heard her tell him it was going to be all right. His spirit saw his body lying in a pool of blood. And then his ascent to the clouds began. “I began to feel tremendous love and peace,” he said. “Then, a huge window opened (in the clouds) and I saw this city. I felt so free and whole. It was beautiful.

I saw colors I’d never seen before.” Just as he felt his cares had melted away, Davis said, he heard God speaking to him telling him it wasn’t yet his time. He needed to go back. “I was distraught,” Davis said. “I did not want to go back and leave all this joy behind.” He felt himself being pushed back through the clouds and into the operating room. He took a deep breath and opened his eyes. When he came to, he learned that his left leg needed to be amputated above the knee and he would never be able to sing or even talk again because one of his vocal cords had been severed.

“Lord, why did you send me back?” Davis said he asked God. It was around midnight the day of the scheduled amputation when Davis said he got his answer. “Forgive,” Davis said God told him.

“If you forgive, I will make you whole again.” “Forgive?” Davis said he thought at the time. “I have this box by the side of my throat and I’m about to have my leg cut off. I’m supposed to forgive?” But after some internal conflict, Davis said he chose to forgive. Right then, he said, he felt a warm feeling in his left leg, a warmth that progressed all the way to his throat. He fell asleep. When surgeons arrived to amputate his leg, they were shocked.

The leg seems to be alive, they told him. Two days later, he did something else no one at that hospital thought he would do. He uttered his first word after the shooting: “Jesus.” =================================== =================================== POWER OF FORGIVENESS Davis, 52, lives in Irvine. In the last decade, he has written a book and is shooting a movie about his experience. He can walk, talk and sing. But now, he only sings Gospel music.

He runs a ministry from his home. He serves as staff pastor at the Saints of Value World Ministries church in Downey and as pastor at New Dawn Church in Pasadena. He tells his story in inner-city schools and in gang intervention programs. That, he says, is his forgiveness in action. “God spared me because He wanted to spread this message of forgiveness,” he said. About six months after he woke up on that operating table, Davis said he was “back to normal.” On Sept. 21, Davis told his story on “The Dr.

Oz Show.” His mentor, Vicki Lee, senior pastor at Saints of Value, encouraged him to share, he said. “He has helped so many people going through challenges with his testimony,” Lee said.

“It is an opportu s and struggled to make it as a basketball player. “I’ve talked to him about how I didn’t want to live anymore,” McClarron said. “He talked me through it and we would pray together. I grew up in a gang-plagued neighborhood in Tacoma and I felt he understood what I came from. His testimony and presence are great for kids who are lost.” Davis said his own killer didn’t get a chance at redemption. After his recovery, Davis said, he returned to the South Los Angeles neighborhood looking for the young man whose silhouette he had glimpsed during the shooting. “I learned he had been shot and killed by rival gang members,” he said.

That solidified his resolve to help young people find their way back, Davis said. “Forgiveness is not just a feeling,” he said. “I couldn’t forgive what happened to me. But I could take this pain and anger that was inside of me and turn it into something positive, loving and good.” Contact the writer: 714-796-7909 or nity he has to tell them that God is God and He is real.” Koloneus McClarron, 27, of Los Angeles said Davis helped him through a few tough years when he was homeless.

Fairfax gives its artists a stage in downtown Thursday, Nov. (Alan Dep/Marin Independent Journal) Fairfax gives its artists a stage in downtown. San Anselmo artist Scott Gibbons unveils his three-panel mural on Broadway at Bolinas Road in Fairfax on Thursday. San Anselmo artist Scott Gibbons unveils his three-panel mural on Broadway at Bolinas Road in Fairfax on Thursday. Alan Dep — Marin Independent Journal. Just a few months ago, a strip of land in Fairfax’s downtown Parkade was a patch of weeds, but now it’s transformed into an artist’s canvas.

A towering tripod of murals by local artist Scott Gibbons attracted community members who celebrated the unveiling of the public art off Broadway on Thursday. “This project is not about me or my art,” said Gibbons, 59, a San Anselmo resident who works in Fairfax. “It’s a prop. It brings us together.” San Anselmo artist Scott Gibbons unveils his three-panel mural on Broadway at Bolinas Road in Fairfax on Thursday. Alan Dep — Marin Independent Journal Over the next three months, visitors to downtown will be greeted by the murals depicting colorful scenes of musicians, who Gibbons calls the “angels of Fairfax.” He said he is in awe by how the town’s musicians do not care whether they are paid. “They’re just playing and digging it,” he said.

The public art is a project of the town’s recreation department. Since May the town has given artists the space to display their work for three months. “We’re happy to have something beautiful in the downtown area that the residents, visitors and everyone can enjoy when they come to Fairfax,” said Maria Baird, manager of Fairfax’s Recreation Community Services. With acrylic on birch panel, one piece shows a band against a stark red backdrop. In rich colors, the band members are seen playing a guitar, drums and a saxophone. Another panel features a flutist and guitar player, among other musicians, against a backdrop of blue and green.

Carmen Vasquez, of Fairfax, said she likes how the works now on display show the diversity and color of the town. “Sometimes you walk in town in the evening and you hear the bands playing at Peri’s and 19 Broadway and just the street players,” said Vasquez, 61. “One time there was a kid and he was plugging (in) his guitar at the corner.” Paul Agricola, 61, of Mill Valley said Gibbon’s work appears to show jazz music. He believes Fairfax is more of a rock music town. But he said he likes that the city is allowing local artists like Gibbons to display their creative sides. “I like that it’s outdoor art.

All three of the images are beautiful,” Agricola said. A free-standing three-panel mural by Scott Gibbons stands along Broadway at Bolinas Road in Fairfax, Calif. On Thursday, Nov.

(Alan Dep/Marin Independent Journal). Father Carmelo A. Tranchese, S.J. Pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church San Antonio, Texas Hi Mimi, In the late 1960s, Father Carmelo A.

Tranchese, S.J., became the subject of my M.A. Thesis at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, thanks to Miss Carmen Perry, the archivist for the Laredo Archives, who introduced me to this topic. I would like to share with you this fascinating story culled from his personal papers and oral interviews I conducted with some of the parishioners who remembered him with fondest memories. I had been in touch with Father James D. Carroll, S.J., the provincial archivist, by letter and by telephone, trying to get access to the Father Tranchese Papers. Then, on one warm afternoon after I had finished working in the history department and was in my room studying, I heard a knock.

Wondering who it could be, I opened the door and standing in front of me was this small, bespectacled, balding white-haired priest. He smiled and said, “I am Father Carroll!” I stood there stunned and looking down at him. Torrent Office 2003 Ita Crack. He had driven all the way from his office at St. Charles College in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, to bring me four boxes full of letters and documents belonging to Father Tranchese. My mouth was agape in bewilderment.

I could not believe what I was hearing. He proceeded to say that he wanted to help me with my thesis. After I gain my composure, I recommended that we should take them to the Academic Library for safekeeping and that I could commence my research there.

He agreed and after we met with Brother Paul Novosal, S.M., Director of Libraries, an agreement was reached. The provisions specified that the four boxes would be kept in the Special Collections Room, and permission was granted only to me. Moreover, after the conclusion of my research, the university was to microfilm them and make two copies—one for their files and one for Father Carroll, which was to be returned with the documents. A final stipulation stated that no one should use the microfilm copy until after twenty years. Text of a March 22, 1968 Messenger, pg.3 Henry B. Gonzalez dedicating Villa Tranchese building San Antonio The Villa Tranchese, San Antonio's newest multi-story apartment building for senior citizens, was formally dedicated March 17 by U.S.

Gonzalez, who delivered a brief address and later unveiled a plaque honoring the late Father Carmelo Tranchese, SJ. The 11-story, 201-apartment complex, located at at 307 Marshall St. On the city's near North Side, is the second high-rise complex especially designed for senior citizens by the San Antonio Housing Authority. It is named for Father Tranchese, a Jesuit priest who served as pastor of Our Lady Guadalupe Parish from the 1930s until 1953 and who made significant contribution to the creation of the San Antonio Housing Authority.

He served on their first Board of Commissioners in 1938. His nine years as a Commissioner were highlighted by the clearance of slums and construction of the first 2,554 low-rent apartments for the underprivileged He also founded a weekly Spanish-language newspaper which later became La Voz.

Seen on the platform with Rep. Gonzalez are Mrs. Norman Netter, president of the Senior Community Services; Father John Yanta, executive director of San Antonio Neighborhood Youth Organization who represented the San Antonio archdiocese and the Rev. James Giddings, pastor of Holy Cross Episcopal Church and a member of the board of of the Senior Community Services, inc. Villa Tranchese 307 Marshall San Antonio, Texas 78212 Phone: (210) 477-6325 Fax: (210) 22 6 -4713 'Letter from Leandro Granado to Father Carmelo Tranchese, S.

Reproduced from Los Pastores: A Photographic Essay Celebrating Los Pastores by Mary Ann Smothers Bruni San Antonio: TexArt Services, Inc., 1990. Photograph courtesy of the University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures. A native of the city of Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, he came to this city of San Antonio, Texas on February 27, 1894. In Mexico I started my role as shepherd in the Shepherd's Play in 1864, and in this city, I started my role as shepherd in the Shepherd's Play in 1913, and since then, I have started writing this book taking the production of the Shepherd's Play to many homes and continued doing it all these years. And this year of 1949, with God's favor and His holy graces, on February 27, I will be 75 years old.

Considering that I will no longer be able to do the Shepherd's Play, for sure, I am grieved. And seeing that Father Carmel has good intentions of continuing this production of the Shepherd's Play, with all my best wishes and with all my love, I give him my book of the Shepherd's Play so that he will not allow this devotional tradition to be lost. And when he passes away or is transferred, he will leave a copy to his successor so that the production will continue in Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in San Antonio, Texas, and pray to God for the one who wrote these bad sentences. Leandro Granado 415 Elvira St. San Antonio, Texas Note. Dear Mimi Yesterday afternoon, while Jo Emma and I were making plan for our return trip to San Antonio, having spent a productive weekend in our small cottage in Zapata, Gustavo Villarreal, a dear friend and classmate from St.

Augustine High School, sent me a text about an article by Odie Arambula that appeared on Sunday, November 13, 2016, in the Laredo Morning Times. He briefly told that he wrote about me and that the story was great! I dropped everything and rapidly walked the two blocks and across Highway 83 to the Valero Stripes store to buy two copies of the Laredo Morning Times. The article appears under his column heading--'Visiting The Past,' in the Opinion section, Page A7, and is entitled, 'History archivist, author reminisces on Azteca.'

I would like to share with you a copy of Mr. Arambula's article in the attachment. Early day Chicano EOP counselors Ron Arias, Armando Vazquez-Ramos, and Bill Vasquez, enjoying one of the many great speeches at the event. After delivering a keynote address, White reflected on the expansion of EOP, saying he 'had no idea that it would grow both vertically and horizontally, over 50 years,' and that he initially expected 'a small program that he would work with, and it just kinda took off.' While a 34-year-old associate professor of psychology at CSULB in 1967, White began recruiting first-generation minority students through EOP, on a campus with an enrollment of about 20,000, which had a relatively small percentage made up of Latinos and blacks.

A well-intentioned producer once said to me, “John, you’re so talented, but too bad you’re Latin — otherwise you’d be so much further along.” When I pitched a movie about Latinos, another producer said: “Latin? People don’t want to see Latin people.” This is not just my experience but a typical Latino person’s experience in America. Has done one good thing. He has galvanized a conflicted and diverse community. For years, activists and politicians have struggled to get Latinos to vote and show their power. But not until Mr.

Trump’s racist rhetoric shone a light on anti-Latino sentiment did we feel the need to make our voices heard on the issues that matter to us: from proper funding for our schools, better infrastructure in our communities and financial aid, to health care that doesn’t consider poverty a pre-existing condition. There are around 56 million of us. We are the largest ethnic minority in the United States, at almost 18 percent of the country’s population. And yet Latino students drop out of high school at a higher rate than members of any other minority.

We are victims of neglect, discrimination and ignorance. We have grown up amid an entrenched disrespect for Latin culture, and we have often internalized that disrespect. A hero horse, a 'forgotten' war, both revisited By San Diego Tribune, OCT 26, 2016 Retired Marine Dennis Eskie, Mary Brown of Victorville and Curtis Merritt of Ontario, from left to right. Merritt's father was killed in Korea. When she heard the story of Reckless, she had found a connection to the war and her father. Mounted Marines are from a Barstow unit.

(John Gibbins/San Diego Union-Tribune) Reckless wasn’t just a horse. She was a Marine. A Los Angeles-area screenwriter is trying to revive the story of Reckless with a 2014 book and a now-successful campaign to erect a larger-than-life bronze likeness at Camp Pendleton, where Reckless lived out her retirement years. =================================== =================================== The hero horse who shed blood alongside fellow U.S.

Marines in the Korean War was honored with a statue at on Wednesday. The mare known as Staff Sgt. Reckless was famous during the Korean War era, equal to Lassie or Rin Tin Tin. But her story has largely faded from popular memory. “I thought this is the greatest horse story I had never heard about,” said Robin Hutton, who wrote “Sgt. Reckless, America’s War Horse” and led a three-year effort to raise funds for the Camp Pendleton statue.

She’s shopping the concept to movie studios as well. Hutton sees Reckless as a way to teach the history of the Korean War — often called the “forgotten war” — whose veterans are now dwindling in number. “Horses and Marines are a lot alike,” said Harold Wadley, who served with Reckless and traveled to Wednesday’s ceremony from his home in Idaho. “They both are herd animals requiring leadership,” Wadley said. “The main difference is that horses instinctively flee from danger, and Marines run toward it.” It was an unlikely war story. In late 1952, a young lieutenant with the 5th Marine Regiment received permission to buy a pack animal — maybe a mule, maybe a horse — to carry heavy ammunition to his Marines on the firing line. Eric Pedersen returned with a small Mongolian mare, bought for $250 at a racetrack from a South Korean youth who needed the money for his sister’s medical care.

The horse, named Reckless after the recoil-less rifle platoon she was attached to, proved her worth beyond price. She learned to duck beneath barbed wire, lay flat if caught under fire on open ground and run for her bunker whenever artillery or mortars came flying. Harold Wadley served with Staff Sgt. Reckless during the Korean War.

A few dozen white-haired Marine survivors of Korea gathered at Camp Pendleton this week to honor their comrade in arms — or, actually, hooves. Historical photo of Staff Sgt.

Reckless (U.S. Marine Corps photo) =================================== =================================== A horse without a herd, she bonded with those Marine grunts. “Cold winter nights, you’d find her nestled among her Marines by the oil stove,” Wadley said. Reckless’ main job was transporting shells for the 75 mm rifle, a big weapon more like today’s mortars.

Each one weighed more than 20 pounds. The Marines tied four to six rounds to her back. With a slap on the flank, she was off to the front line, often solo. In March 1953, the enemy overran the company’s location, Outpost Vegas. During pitched battle, Reckless is credited with making 51 trips to re-supply the guns. She carried 386 rounds totaling more than 9,000 pounds and trekked over 35 miles up and down steep ridges.

The horse also transported wounded Marines back from the front. Wadley remembers the scene. “It was like the sky was falling. I didn’t have near enough stretchers,” he said.

Reckless didn’t shy from her mission. She knew where her Marines were. =================================== =================================== “I looked back at the eastern skyline through all the smoke and could hardly believe my eyes,” Wadley recalled for the audience Wednesday. “The silhouette of a heavily laden horse came in and out of view along the ridge. It was Reckless.

All alone, scrambling in the torn earth to keep her footing.” The mare was wounded twice, on the forehead and in the hindquarter, receiving the Purple Heart. Wadley said he sees more than a horse carrying ammunition when he looks at the new statue, in front of the base’s Pacific Views Events Center. “To me, she represents a whole lot more than herself. When I see her, I know that’s our 5th Marine Regiment, and all the guys we lost,” Wadley said after the ceremony. “There are just a lot of ghosts.” Michael Mason, a corporal during Korea, remembers lighter moments, too Reckless was as hardheaded as any Marine.

Every morning, Reckless would stick her nose in his tent. His bunkmate was one of the unit’s cooks. The mare yanked at the blanket on the cook’s bed until he got up and fed her. “We treated her as though she was another Marine. She was one of us,” Mason, who lives in Maryland, said after the ceremony. “After all, she outranked most of us.” That kind of horse deserves a statue.

The first was erected in 2013 at the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Va. =================================== =================================== The Camp Pendleton version — by the same artist, Jocelyn Russell — stands about 12 feet high. The cost was $185,000, mostly raised through donations to the Camp Pendleton Historical Society and Hutton’s Angels Without Wings nonprofit. Military has a long record of using animals for their strength and superior senses. The Marines have employed donkeys as pack animals as recently as the post-9/11 wars. However, horses largely stopped being used in combat after World War II, according to Hutton — making Reckless an anomaly of history. American troops continue to work with dogs for bomb detection, and even fighting.

Famous dogs in Marine Corps lore include Sgt. Soochow, a terrier mix who fought alongside the Marines in the Philippines during World War II. The Navy SEALs who killed in 2011 reportedly took a dog on that mission.

Reckless’ story almost didn’t have a happy ending, according to Hutton. The mare stayed behind in Korea after the fighting ended — again a horse without a herd, now a Marine without her brothers. It took an article in the Saturday Evening Post to generate enough public sentiment to bring her to the United States via civilian ship. Eventually, Reckless was billeted at Camp Pendleton’s stables. She lived a life full of carrots and parades. I Recently found out that Victor Espinoza, is the first Mexican/Latino to win the Triple Crown! Originally from Mexico, one of the youngest children of a large family.

He learned to ride very early in life and worked in the stables. Now he is a millionaire and donated 10% of his earnings to the City of Hope in Duarte. He is down to earth and a good person.

Two weeks ago, while on a tour of Santa Anita race track he was out there greeting the visitors. For other details look him up on the internet. He's a good person! Photo: Espinoza an on AmericPharoah became the first jockey in history to get three opportunities to win the Triple Crown and earned back-to-back wins with California Chrome and American Pharoah in both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, only the sixth jockey in history to do so. 2, 2016, photo, Joe Misner, left, manager of the Wild Horse Program shows inmate John Blackwell the the proper technique of bridling Biscuit, a horse under training at the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in Elk Grove.

Inmates spend 40 hours a week training mustangs provided by the federal Bureau of Land Management. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Through horse-training program, inmates also learn to tame themselves by Rich Pedroncelli photo AP Nov. 24, 2016 Elk Grove – Jail inmates and wild horses are helping each other learn to adapt through a California program aimed at preparing both for society. Inmates at Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in rural Elk Grove spend 40 hours a week training mustangs that federal land managers gather from overpopulated areas in 10 Western states.

=================================== =================================== Elk Grove – Jail inmates and wild horses are helping each other learn to adapt through a California program aimed at preparing both for society. Inmates at Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in rural Elk Grove spend 40 hours a week training mustangs that federal land managers gather from overpopulated areas in 10 Western states.

The training program south of Sacramento is one of six nationwide, with the others at the federal level. Sacramento County officials say theirs is the first within a local correctional facility. The inmates see themselves in the horses as they both learn valuable lessons and skills. “They’re a lot like us,” said Christopher Robert Culcasi, 40, who is serving a two-year sentence for auto theft. “You take them from the wild, you herd them up, throw them in holding facilities, take them away from what they know – everything they know – and then ask them to comply. You know, that’s a lot of what we’re going through here.” Jason MacDonald, 49, said he has been in prison or jail for much of his life, including his current three-year stint for burglary.

“I did something wrong to go to jail. He didn’t do nothing wrong, you know?” he said of his horse. “So I’ve got a compassion for him right off the bat because I feel like he’s in jail wrongly accused, you know, and it’s my job to get him out of jail, to get him a saddle and go.” Five saddle-trained horses will be auctioned off Dec. 10 by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department program that began in 2014. Inmates volunteer and must be approved by a correctional panel before they can work with the horses outside the barbed-wire fences that surround the jail. They spend four months taming and training the horses.

They also built and maintain the holding pens and care for the pastures where the horses graze. ASPCA - Horse of the Year – the Mustang Resilience, perseverance, forgiveness, love, joy a survivor Sutter is all of these things and more. By Robin Collins Nearly 30 years ago I was witness to a young Palomino mustang colt being returned to an BLM adoptionbadly beaten and terrifiedhe was drug on to the ground out of the back of a stock horse trailer in devastating condition due to obvious excessive abuse. I immediately went to the office and filled out the papers necessary to re-adopt this pathetic young horse. I came back with my horse trailer and brought him home to our stables in Monterey, CA. This colt was in a state of disassociation of mind and body, an emotionally shut down condition where they let their body suffer the abuse and take their mind away in a non-responsive appearance.

We put Sutter in a 20 X 20 stall to recover so we could try to attend to his wounds. Upon the site of a human being Sutter was willing to crash into the wall of the stall in flight to escape. It took time and understanding to relieve his fear and let us have contact with him.

Once we could start to touch him we were able to start to gain his trust. Amazing that after all the trauma he suffered, that he still wanted to try to understand our intentionsI believe his youth benefited the attempt to establish a relationship again with humans. Once we were able to bring him outside where we had more options of interaction and exchange of body language, Sutter then started to show signs of engagement.

Sutter demonstrated a great desire to explore all different activities, exercises that channeled his efforts and focus toward success and trust. He progressed with curiosity and enthusiasm, eagerly awaiting the next challenge Today his lists of accomplishments are long and prestigious: *Cameo Horse in the historic documentary produced for Monterey about Portola and Father Serra coming to Monterey with the Colonists. *Sutter participated in many reenactments and dedications for the ‘Anza Trail’. A Developed National Park from Sonora, Mexico to San Francisco, California, designed by George Cardinet. *Sutter participated in the California ‘Rose Parade’ in 2001 *Sutter was in the Santa Barbara Fiesta and Parade *Sutter was also in many historic events and parades honoring Colonial California history. *Sutter was also in the ‘Western Film Festival’ Held annually to honor Stars of Western Movies. The list continuesas he endures to touch the hearts and lives of so many When Neda DeMayo started her wild horse sanctuary ‘Return to Freedom’ she need an ambassador for the public to promote the need to preserve the American Mustang.

What better representative then Sutterhe represents our American Mustang Legacy, even as an example of our ‘United States Color Guard’ all mounted on Palominoslike himself.Mustangs representing our Country. Sutter has been an example for ALL to followand now Sutter has been recognized by the ASPCA as ‘Horse of the Year’ For all of the Greatness and Love he represents as an American Ambassador for Life and the pursuit of Happiness.for ALL God Bless you Sutter, for all the known and unknown equine Survivors and Heroes.

With Love and respect, Robin, The Heritage Discovery Center - Rancho del Sueno, and ALL your friends. Sutter, the Mustang, ASPCA - Horse of the Year at the Heritage Discovery Center, Inc. The, Inc., nonprofit was created in 1992 to preserve Colonial Hispanic California and the components of its existence and development.

The common thread throughout this period was the Spanish horse. Is the equine division of the HDC to assist in the conservation of this historic ‘living history’. This effort to preserve and present our Colonial past of the west has been an honor for me and a life’s pursuit in my latter years.

The rare Wilbur-Cruce Colonial Spanish Mission/Ranching strain of horses represent the heartbeat of this glorious time past, also known as the ‘El Dorado’. Legendary to peoples around the world. Our Alta California to statehood transformation has been a popular story for many mediums, books, movies, documentaries, etc. The Spanish horse a main character. Now this pinnacle part of our past, the pure Spanish horse is in great danger of being lost forever. JUDGE EDWARD BUTLER, SPAR CO-FOUNDER SELECTED FOR HIGH HONOR Class of 2016 Texas Genealogical Hall of Fame Today, Rev. Taylor announced that Judge Ed Butler was among the winners of the Texas Genealogical College's Texas Hall of Fame Class of 2016.

The ceremony took place at the El Tropicano River Walk Hotel in San Antonio on Oct. Judge Edward F. A retired federal administrative law judge, served as President General Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) in 2009-2010. He was the Founder & Charter Grand Viscount General of the Order of the Founders of North America 1492-1692 in 2012-2014. For several years he has been active in 32 lineage & heritage groups, including service as Deputy Governor General of the General Society of Colonial Wars and Vice President General of the General Society of the War of 1812. He also served as Governor of the Texas Society Order of the Founders and Patriots of America and state President of both the Texas Society of the Sons of the Revolution and First Families of Maryland, where he also serves nationally as Chancellor General.

He has written three family history books, one of which won the Dallas Genealogical Society Award in 1997. His first history book about the American Revolutionary War has already won 5 awards and his latest book just came out.

Judge Butler has served as a judge at the city, county, state and federal levels. In his 30 year career as an SAR leader, he was the founder of both the Laredo and Boerne, TX SAR chapters and both the Mexico and Spain SAR Societies.

He was also the founder of the Texas Genealogical College. He also rekindled the defunct St. Matthew Priory of the Sovereign Military Order Of The Temple Of Jerusalem (Knight Templars) as its Prior, and then went on to become Deputy Grand Prior of the international Order, in which he holds the rank of Grand Croix. Besides his interest in genealogy and lineage societies, he enjoys travel. Just returning from the Far East, he has visited 186 countries.

Each of those selected for the Texas Genealogical College 2016 Class of the 'Hall of Fame' were also presented a huge folder (12' X 18') with two colorful certificates which compose the 'Hidalgo Award'. The 'Hidalgo Award' is the highest honor that can be bestowed by the Bexar County, Texas government. Also, Mayor Ivy Taylor of San Antonio, Texas, issued a Proclamation honoring the event and those selected for the 2016 Class of the Texas Genealogical Hall of Fame, the original of which also measures (12' X 18') (below). Judge Ed Butler and wife Robin, with the San Antonio SAR Color Guard.

HISPANIC HERITAGE PROJECT Organized in Escondido, California some fourteen years ago, the Hispanic Heritage Project helped archives that housed Hispanic colonial documents. Income was at first generated from proceeds earned by taking care of and selling produce from a city-owned avocado and orange grove. Later when the old grove could no longer provide the funds needed they sought donations and later launched their second enterprise, selling Hispanic books online. As activities in Mexico grew so did the need of additional funds. We are now imaging the colonial documents of the Spanish colony known as New Spain.

This is the area now known as the Caribbean, Southwestern United States, Mexico, part of Guatemala, and the Philippines. This has become a mammoth project requiring a very large and growing budget. Necessity has led us to our latest and newest undertaking for raising funds, the sale of fine art. A modest donation of art has made this possible. Now exhibited in a hallway of the ArtHatch Gallery in Escondido is a display of art works entitled, “miarte.” We have received donations from artists, art dealers, and private collectors representing different art styles and media. For those who live in the Escondido area you can view our collection in the section called “miarte” and for those not in our area you may find us online at “.” We invite you to visit our website and see if one of our pieces will enhance your home or office.

Nancy Yturralde. Ramon 'Chunky' Sanchez in 2013 after receiving an NEA National Heritage Fellowship. (U-T San Diego / Zuma Press) Kristina Davis October 30, 1951 - October 28, 2016 ===================================e =================================== Ramon “Chunky” Sanchez, a San Diego music institution who gave voice to the barrio, has died, his family said. Sanchez passed away October 28, his eldest daughter, Ixcatli Sanchez, announced on Facebook. He would have been 65 on Sunday. “Que Viva El Chunky y que Viva La Causa,” she wrote.

She asked for privacy for the family. Recognizable with his iconic handlebar mustache and guitar often in hand, Sanchez was an activist, artist, musician and educator. He was among the many founders of Chicano Park in the Barrio Logan neighborhood and became one of its strongest protectors.

Los Alacranes, the band he founded with his younger brother Ricardo, has been a fixture in San Diego’s Chicano social and political community since 1975. Armando Cruz August 15, 1940 - November 1, 2016 “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7 Armando Cruz, born August 15, 1940, in Laredo, Texas, was called home to be with his Lord and Saviour, on November 1, 2016. Armando attended St. Joseph’s Academy since the third grade, graduating in 1959. While in high school, Armando made a name for himself as an excellent football player, starting with his first touchdown as a freshman and becoming a four year letterman. His greatest accomplishment as a Fullback in his senior year was being part of the Undefeated 1958 St.

Joseph’s Academy Antlers District Champs Team, which was called “The Perfect Season.” In the game with the Victoria Eagles, Armando led St. Joe’s offense with five touchdowns that night. The Antlers captured their first South Texas Catholic Interscholastic League championship by ending their 10 game regular season, undefeated, and securing St. Joe’s place in the annals of local sports history.

He attended Laredo Junior College and later graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Science and Physical Education in 1963. He taught and coached in both the Laredo and United Independent School Districts for several years. He also became an assistant coach under Reece Hunter, returning to his old alma mater at St. Joseph’s Academy. Later on in 1968, he became a stockbroker working with Ling and Company in Dallas, TX, for over three years.

In 1972, Armando began working for the Texas State Board of Insurance in Austin, TX, as an insurance investigator and examiner, traveling all over the state, for a period of ten years. Afterwards, Armando became involved in the Oil and Gas Industry, becoming a Landman until his retirement. Armando was an avid outdoor sportsman. Fishing and Hunting were his hobbies, but his passion for hunting made him one of the best deer hunters in South Texas. He enjoyed going on hunting trips to Colorado, Wyoming and Mexico. He also met and made many friends from all over the states when he formed the Chaparral White Wing Hunting Group, and hosted many hunts for several years. Armando loved taking part in the local Chili and Menudo Cook-Offs, often winning several championships.

He was well-known for his cooking skills and loved to entertain friends in his home. However, on top of all this, Armando’s greatest passion and the pride and joy of his life, was his love for his family, who will miss him terribly. He was preceded in death by his parents, Fernando Cruz Jr. And Petra Oliveros Cruz.

Armando is survived by his beloved wife of 55 years of marriage, and who was also his high school sweetheart, Aurora Dominguez Cruz, his three daughters: Judi Cruz Garcia (Gabriel) Melissa Cruz Gomez (Miguel) Denise Cruz Quiroga (Fernando) and his adored grandsons, Fernie, Armando, and Alejandro Quiroga, Mauricio Gomez and his granddaughter, Lauren Gomez. His grandchildren brought him joy beyond measure and he loved to participate in all their school activities and games.

They were his “pride and joy.” Also surviving him are his siblings: Fernando Cruz III (Sylvia) Rosa Cruz, Martin Cruz (MaryElva) Angela Gomez (Alberto) Laura Cisneros and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Armando was an individual who impacted the lives of many people and left a legacy of love and unforgettable memories among his friends and family. The family wishes to thank Dr. Ralph Nimchan and Dr.

Reynaldo Godines for the care they provided to Armando for so many years. Also a special thanks to Superior Nursing Home Health Agency for their excellent care and attention given to him. Funeral service will be held Saturday, November 5, 2016, at Fred Dickey Funeral & Cremation Services. Visitation will be from 9:00am to 11:00am. A Celebration of Life Service will begin at 11:00am at the funeral home chapel. Pastor Greg Liles, from Laredo First Assembly of God Church, will officiate.

Interment will follow in the Calvary Catholic Cemetery. Pallbearers are: Gabriel Garcia, Miguel Gomez, Fernando Quiroga, Fernie Quiroga, Armando Quiroga, Alejandro Quiroga, Mauricio Gomez, Ralph Garcia and Eduardo Hernandez. Honorary pallbearers are: Rolando Raymond, Ernesto Dominguez, Pete Gallegos Sr.

And Roberto Salinas. Funeral arrangements are by Fred Dickey Funeral & Cremation Services, 1320 Trey Dr.

Laredo, Texas (956)723-3611. You may leave condolences to the family online. Carrie Perez, wife of Honorary Granadero Rueben Perez A Celebration of Life was on held on Thursday, November 17, 2016.

Carrie was born in Mississippi November 28, 1940 to Top and Lula Starnes. She was preceded in death on November 10, 2016 by both parents and six brothers and sisters.

Following graduation from the University of Mississippi, Carrie moved to San Antonio, Texas where she met her husband, Rueben Perez and they were married in 1966. Carrie is survived by her husband; daughter, Stephanie; and son-in-law, Todd Lanier; and numerous nieces and nephews. She started teaching at Regional Day School for the Deaf.

Following her retirement, she went to work at Northside I.S.D. As an Area Coordinator in Special Education. Carrie loved her family and provided strength, support, and affection to each one. She was a loving mother and wife.

Rueben and Carrie celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary in February of this year. She lived her life serving the Lord and was compassionate to others with a selfless love that will live on in the hearts and lives of every person who knew her. Sent by Joe Perez. There’s a new landmark at Santa Ana High School. Spanning the wall of the hallway near the Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp classroom, in place of the hand-drawn posters, is a mural honoring military veterans. =================================== =================================== “Not only does this simply beautify the campus, it is a perfect tribute,” said naval science instructor Tom Osseck Jr., a retired Navy commander. “It’s about honoring those who have gone before us.” The mural is 37 feet long and 7 feet high and depicts members of the military throughout the years, from the Revolutionary War, World War I and World War II to the present.

The soldiers are painted in black and white against a vibrant American flag that is made to look like it is waving. “This has been 19 years in the making,” said art department Chairwoman Judith Westing, who says she’s glad she finally had the chance to say yes to Osseck’s request to collaborate on the mural. “These iconic images hold promise of the students’ generation,” she said. “And I think it makes the things they’ve studied in class come to life.”. The art students began working on the mural in March and finished in time for a dedication ceremony Oct. =================================== =================================== “It’s heartwarming to show honor to people that fight for our country,” said senior Yaritza Cisneros-Guinto. “I feel like painting is the least we can do.” Before the mural was completed, other artistic embellishments could only be found above door frames and on walls in Osseck’s classroom.

Many of the small works were painted by a former Officer Training Corp cadet who also took Westing’s art class. The mural marks the first official collaboration between the two departments. “Some people think that art is art and it won’t relate to other subjects, but here is a prime example of it working,” said cadet Lt. Karen Garcia, who is also taking art. “I’m a senior so I know I’m going to have to be working with other people.

The real world is a lot about mixing with other ideas and that’s why it’s good when schools do this kind of thing.” And even though the art doesn’t actually depict Santa Ana High School, the students say working on the mural instilled in them a sense of school spirit. “When two subjects come together it really shows how connected we are as a school,” said Cisneros-Guinto. The students said they were motivated to work on the mural because of what it represents, but also because it lets them be part of the school’s legacy. “I have a really proud feeling.

It brings out the best in us,” said senior David Vergara, who admitted that this is the biggest project he has ever completed. “It’s amazing to think (the mural) is going to be here for years and years.” Said Garcia: “Art is a fantastic way of depicting history as well as remembering it.

Looking at the finished project is so powerful, and I hope other kids pass it (in the hallway) and know these men and women deserve to be honored.” Contact the writer: 714-796-6026. A General Mattis Christmas Story General Mattis is being considered to be the Secretary of Defense. What a great way to start rebuilding our military. He nickname is Mad Dog Mattis A couple of months ago, when I told General Krulak, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps, now the chair of the Naval Academy Board of Visitors, that we were having General Mattis speak this evening, he said, “Let me tell you a Jim Mattis story.” General Krulak said, when he was Commandant of the Marine Corps, every year, starting about a week before Christmas, he and his wife would bake hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Christmas cookies. They would package them in small bundles. Then on Christmas day, he would load his vehicle.

At about 4 a.m., General Krulak would drive himself to every Marine guard post in the Washington-Annapolis-Baltimore area and deliver a small package of Christmas cookies to whatever Marines were pulling guard duty that day. He said that one year, he had gone down to Quantico as one of his stops to deliver Christmas cookies to the Marines on guard duty. He went to the command center and gave a package to the lance corporal who was on duty. He asked, “Who’s the officer of the day?” The lance corporal said, “Sir, it’s Brigadier General Mattis.” And General Krulak said, “No, no, no. I know who General Mattis is. I mean, who’s the officer of the day today, Christmas day?” The lance corporal, feeling a little anxious, said, “Sir, it is Brigadier General Mattis.” General Krulak said that, about that time, he spotted in the back room a cot, or a daybed.

He said, “No, Lance Corporal. Who slept in that bed last night?” The lance corporal said, “Sir, it was Brigadier General Mattis.” About that time, General Krulak said that General Mattis came in, in a duty uniform with a sword, and General Krulak said, “Jim, what are you doing here on Christmas day?

Why do you have duty?” General Mattis told him that the young officer who was scheduled to have duty on Christmas day had a family, and General Mattis decided it was better for the young officer to spend Christmas Day with his family, and so he chose to have duty on Christmas Day. General Krulak said, “That’s the kind of officer that Jim Mattis is.” The story above was told by Dr. Pierce, the Director of the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at The United States Naval Academy. He was introducing General James Mattis who gave a lecture on Ethical Challenges in Contemporary Conflict in the spring of 2006. This was taken from the transcript of that lecture. Sent by Joe Parr.

Why Veterans? In 2012 The Livestock Conservancy received a call from Michael O'Gorman, the Executive Director of the Farmer Veteran Coalition. He indicated that most of the veterans that were contacting the coalition, wanted to work with heritage breeds. So the Conservancy partnered with the Coalition to organize and hold a workshop in Pittsboro, NC, to provide veterans the education needed to succeed with heritage breed conservation.

From this The Livestock Conservancy's Service to Stewardship initiative was launched as part of its Train the Next Generation Program. By supporting veterans who raise heritage breeds, The Livestock Conservancy simultaneously serves its own mission of livestock and poultry breed conservation. Our veterans face many challenges. Some of them struggle to find jobs. Some struggle to find productive ways to reconnect with society. They need time to heal, and a place to do it. With so many of our veterans returning to small communities, many find healing in rural life and farming.

The act of raising animals and giving new life is a benefit to our soldiers. Veterans are also service minded, and want to find new ways to serve their communities. Those that farm want most of all to feed their families and their neighbors. They find that raising endangered breeds of livestock and poultry, is a good way to add yet another form of service by helping save breeds that might otherwise disappear.

“Veterans are especially suited for heritage breed conservation due to our unique connection with the heritage of our country,” said Althea Raiford, a workshop attendee from Brunswick, Georgia. “For many of us, ranching & farming and being in the military is part of our personal heritage and pride in being an American.” The Heritage Discovery Center/Rancho del Sueno equine division has programs designed to provide numerous opportunities for Veterans to work with and learn about our Heritage Breed Wilbur-Cruce horses. The therapeutic benefits of Veterans working with horses is innumerable. Horses and Heritage, a great partnership and growth opportunity.

Rancho del Sueno is a perfect setting for Veterans to participate in our equine preservation/conservation projects. Our horses were also survivors and offer unconditional love and partnership in the path to recovery and a positive future.

Please help us provide the opportunity for Veterans to experience these magnificent ‘Horses of Heritage’. Donate today. Thank you, Robin Collins, 559 868-8681 Heritage Discovery Center/Rancho del Sueno 40222 Millstream Lane, Madera CA 93636 PayPal. Hispanic Medal of Honor Society When we first presented this video a year and a half ago, our goal was to reach 21 million views, the number of living veterans there were at the time.

We now have over 20 million views of 'Just A Common Soldier'. It has also received 2 Emmy Awards. Please pass it along. Regardless of how you voted, we now have a new President-Elect who needs all our prayers and support to succeed in a country that we love and many have fought and given their lives for.

God bless our veterans and God Bless America! Estimada Sra. Lozano, Muchas gracias por su excellente carta. Todo muy interesante y especialmente su palabras sobre nuestros veteranos.

I also want to take this opportunity to highlight my new book regarding some of the true history of New Mexico. The book is 'New Mexico's Stormy History: True Stories of Early Spanish Colonial Settlers and the Mestas/Maestas Families.' The book is considered 'one of a kind' as it is the only New Mexico book that highlights an 'average' New Mexico family through the many long, long years of New Mexico's history as the author carefully and superbly weaves the history of his Mestas/Maestas into and alongside New Mexico's 'stormy' history.

It was five years in the making - research, interviews, reviews, then putting all the pieces together. It comes with contents, footnotes, bibliography, index and appendices. It also highlights some the real historical aspects that historians often have bypassed or trod over lightly. Because I am more a chronologist then author, I had both present and past NM State Historians, two Univ. Of NM history professors and two other well noted NM historians review the book, and all gave it a 'thumbs up.' The book was published in June and has already sold over 500 copies. It is published by Herrington House Press and printed/distributed by Ingram Press/Content., and carried by Amazon and Barnes&Nobel, and locally.

Jose Lopez, former history professor/writer/author at UTSA also has reviewed it. Hopefully you are interested in having a review done, as well, for SomosPrimos - as I noted that you listed some books here in SomosPrimos, November 2016. Should you be interested in a review, please send me your mailing address and I shall send you a book, and will be very grateful as well. Thank you very much, Best Regards and continued success. Un Gran Saludo, ELMER E. MAESTAS (30 years service, retired Master Chief, USN / MA-Univ. Of NM 13800 Crested Butte Dr.

NE, Abuquerque, NM 87112 505-271-0345 //. Comments on the book by Orlando Romero, Nambe Town, New Mexico Most family genealogy books are exactly that, family genealogies for a specific family with, of course, its many branches made up of other families often with different surnames. Rarely do you have a family genealogy that reads like a history of an entire population, with a fresh look as seen through the ages of New Mexico's history through the lens of an average long-time New Mexico family. What Elmer Maestas has done that goes far beyond a 'family genealogy' is the brilliant connection of the Mestas/Maestas family to New Mexico history. From the first settlements, the Pueblo Revolt, the Return from Exile to the 'Entrada,' to modern times, a Mestas or a descendant has been there to tell the story. And indeed this is our New Mexican story, whether you are a Lopez, Lujan, Romero, Martinez, Chavez, Lucero, Salaz, Pacheco, Montoya, Pena, Vargas, Gallegos or Sanchez, etc., this Mestas story is our story, your story. In telling his summarization of New Mexico's early history, Elmer Maestas does not shy away from pointing out some of the sweet, bitter sweet or sour aspects of New Mexico's unique and memorable history.

This book is 'one of a kind.' After years of research, Elmer Maestas has connected the dots, filled in the blanks and brought to life the struggles and sheer strength of survival of the many Hispano families who experienced it. He skillfully presents to us the stage upon which a Mestas and other Hispanos played leading roles in the history of our state's. Early colonial historical beginnings to the patriotism that Hispanos have displayed in the founding and creation of our United States of America.

And if you doubt his veracity, check his; sources, his countless hours in archives, libraries, special collections and interviews. Maestas has created not only a 'family history' but also a journal of our early beginnings, our struggles, our adversity, our joys and sorrows, and most important, the fact that he is here to tell his story, our story, our history. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Elmer Eugene Maestas is a native northern New Mexico, growing up in La Madera, NM, California, Los Alamos, NM and the Pojoaque Valley, NM. Graduated from Santa Fe High School and earned BA and MA degrees from Southern Illinois University and University of New Mexico. After a 30 year career in the U.S. Navy, retiring as Master Chief, he returned home to New Mexico and set sail on a course of new adventures - working as a U.S.

Census Manager, as a Refugee Resettlement Case Manager, served on the board of Kirtland Federal Credit Union, and joined organizations and causes to learn about New Mexico's unique history - then launched a five-year research study to write and have published his book - 'New Mexico's Stormy History: True Stories of Early Spanish Colonial Settlers and the Mestas/Maestas Families.' The book is a true telling of New Mexico's unique, tough, long, often dramatic 'stormy' history - of the first European settlers to enter New Mexico, the ensuing conflicts with Native Indians, peace treaties and Pueblo Indian-Hispano alliances, the Mexican period, the U.S. Takeover and it's ensuing 'cloudy' Territorial period, then 'brighter' Statehood times, and all-along including the intertwining of a long-time native New Mexican Hispanic family's own history alongside New Mexico's history during three centuries - making this book 'one of a kind' as proposed by historian and author Don Orlando Romero in his Foreword. Others propose that it is a sweeping and exciting telling, and high-lighting many historical facts - known, little known, or not often told, regarding that 'Stormy' and almost constant warfare filled period of Spanish Colonial and U.S.

Territorial history. Hi Mimi, here is another review: I had completely forgotten about this one done by the NMGenealogicalSociety - as they were in the process of joining with our Hispanic Genealogical Research Center NM and wanted to do a book review of one of our HGRC member's works - so my new book was chosen. Please note that in my book - I call NM's Territorial period 'Rocky,' 'stormy,' 'often disasterous,' and 'bleak,' (p. 126) - and the NMGS Anglo book reviewer Mary Penner, referred to our Territorial period as 'complex'. This is a trend that continues on as has been the case throughout our NM Statehood period, Anglos will not own up to the fact that they/the U.S. took 90% of New Mexican's land grant lands and that this was a 'Black-eye on U.S. History' (per NM StateHistorian Hendricks p.123). Mil Saludos, MasterChief USN ret.,Elmer Maestas.

Editor Mimi: Elmer has compiled an outstanding studyook of the Maestas/Mestas surname in New Mexico. He includes the history of New Mexico, from the first entrada to the recolonization. Supportive to his family history and genealogy are, maps, sketches of historical incidences drawn by the author himself. Also included is a glossary, bibliography, index, notes, heraldry, and the a listings of Spanish military groups entering New Mexico, in some cases their wives, by name, are identified. Maestas family pedigrees are a valuable resource for anyone with a Maestas/Mestas among their ancestors. Congratulations for producing a well documented resources for all of us...

(From The Oxford Companion to English Literature:) Changeling, The, a tragedy by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, printed 1653, but acted as early as 1622. Beatrice Joanna, daughter of the governor of Alicant, is ordered by her father to marry Alonzo de Piracquo. She falls in love with Alsemero and in order to avoid the marriage employs the ill-favoured villain De Flores, whom she detests but who cherishes a passion for her, to murder Alonzo. To the horror of Beatrice, De Flores exacts the reward he had lusted for. Beatrice is now to marry Alsemero. To escape detection she arranges that her maid Diaphanta shall take her place on the wedding night; and to remove a dangerous witness, De Flores then kills the maid.

The guilt of Beatrice and De Flores is revealed to Alemero, and they are both brought before the governor, whereupon they take their own lives. The title of the play is taken from the sub-plot, in which Antonio disguises himself as a crazy changeling in order to get access to Isabella, wife of the keeper of a madhouse.

The main plot is taken from John Reynolds's God's Revenge against Murther (1621). But the goal is as necessarily fixed for knowledge as the serial progression; it is the point where knowledge no longer needs to go beyond itself, where knowledge finds itself, where Notion corresponds to object and object to Notion.

Hence the progress towards this goal is also unhalting, and short of it no satisfaction is to be found at any of the stations on the way. Whatever is confined within the limits of a natural life cannot by its own efforts go beyond its immediate existence; but it is driven beyond it by something else, and this uprooting entails its death. Consciousness, however, is explicitly the Notion of itself.

Hence it is something that goes beyond limits, and since these limits are its own, it is something that goes beyond itself. With the positing of a single particular the beyond is also established for consciousness, even if it is only alongside the limited object as in the case of spatial intuition. Thus consciousness suffers this violence at its own hands: it spoils its own limited satisfaction. When consciousness feels this violence, its anxiety may well make it retreat from the truth, and strive to hold on to what it is in danger of losing. But it can find no peace.

If it wishes to remain in a state of unthinking inertia, then thought troubles its thoughtlessness, and its own unrest disturbs its inertia. Or, if it entrenches itself into sentimentality, which assures us that it finds everything to be good in its kind, then the assurance likewise suffers violence at the hands of Reason, for precisely in so far as something is merely a kind, Reason finds it not to be good. Or, again, its fear of the truth may lead consciousness to hide, from itself and from others, behind the pretension that its burning zeal for truth makes it difficult or even impossible to find any other truth but the unique truth of vanity—that of being at any rate cleverer than any thoughts that one gets by oneself or from others. This conceit which understands how to belittle every truth, in order to turn back on itself and gloat over its own understanding, which knows how to dissolve every thought and always find the same barren Ego instead of any content—this is a satisfaction which we must leave to itself, for it flees from the universal, and seeks only to be for itself.

(.) in fact, in the alteration of the knowledge, the object itself alters for it too, for the knowledge that was present was essentially a knowledge of the object: as the knowledge changes, so does the object, for it essentially belonged to this knowledge. Hence it comes to pass for consciousness that what it previously took to be the in-itself is not an in-itself, or that it was only an in-itself for consciousness. Since consciousness thus finds that its knowledge does not correspond to its object, the object itself does not stand the test; in other words, the criterion for testing is altered when that for which it was to have been the criterion fails to pass the test, and the testing is not only a testing of what we know, but also a testing of the criterion of what knowing is. (sigue §87) It shows up here like this: since what first appeared as the object sinks for consciousness to the level of its way of knowing it, and since the in-itself becomes a being-for-consciousness of the in-itself,, the latter is now the new object.

Herewith a new pattern of consciousness comes on the scene as well, for which the essence is something different from what it was at the preceding stage. It is this fact that guides the entire series of the patterns of consciousness in their necessary sequence. But it is just this necessity itself, or the origination of the new object, that presents itself to consciousenss without its understanding how this happens, which proceeds for us, as it were, behind the back of consciousness.

Thus in the movement of consciousness there occurs a moment of being-in-itself or being-for-us which is not present to the consciousness comprehended in the experience itself. The content, however, of what presents itself to us does exist for it; we comprehend only the formal aspect of that content, or its pure origination. For it, what has thus arisen exists only as an object; for us, it appears at the same time as movement and a process of becoming. The experience of itself which consciousness goes through can, in accordance with its Notion, comprehend nothing less than the entire system of consciousness, or the entire realm of the truth of the Spirit. For this reason, the moments of this truth are exhibited in their own proper determinateness, viz. As being not abstract moments, but as they are for consciousness, or as consciousness itself stands forth in its relation to them. Thus the moments of the whole are patterns of consciousness.

In pressing forward to its true existence, consciousness will arrive at a point at which it gets rid of its semblance of being burdened with something alien, with what is only for it, and some sort of 'other', at a point where appearance becomes identical with essence, so that its exposition will coincide at just this point with the authentic Science of Spirit. And finally, when consciousness itself grasps this its own essence, it will signify the nature of absolute knowledge itself. But as regards the existence of this Notion, Science does not appear in Time and in the actual world before Spirit has attained to this consciousness about itself. As Spirit that knows what it is, it does not exist before, and nowhere at all, till after the completion of its work of compelling its imperfect 'shape' to procure for its consciousness the 'shape' of its essence, and in this way to equate its self-consciousness with its own consciousness. Spirit that is in and for itself and differentiated into its moments is a knowing that is for itself, a comprehension in general that, as such, substance has not yet reached, i.e. Substance is not in its own self an absolute knowing. William Walsh, 1663-1708, the friend of Dryden and Pope, is in certain respects and intermediary between the two poets; his best-known poems are Jealousy and The Despairing Lover. Poems, in Chalmers and Johnson, English Poets, vol.

John Pomfret, 1667-1702, published in 1700 The Choice, which won a great and lasting success. Poems, ibid., vol. Sir Samuel Garth, 1661-1719, is remembered for his poem The Dispensary, 1699. Poems, ibid., vol. Sir Richard Blackmore (1650?-1729), a medical practitioner, wrote an epic poem ( Prince Arthur, 1695), a philosophical poem ( Creation, 1712), a Satire on Wit (1700), and heroic poem, Eliza ( 1705), etc.; essays in prose, a translation of the Psalms, etc.; was praised by Addison, ranked highly in middle-class opinion, but later fell into dis.