one of the things that is long forgotten is that there was quite a few germans in mexico that moved sometimes in late 1800s. my great grandmother's family married with several germans. germans didnt just lived in cities but moved out to small towns in the middle of nowhere. my family comes from a small town in durango mexico called la soledad. a small farming town. my grandmother was mixed german and indian. she would tell me stories about her cousins, how beautiful they were, blond, blue eyes. during ww2 news came to go back to germany to help the fatherland. 3 of them went, they hardly spoke german but they all joined the navy. only 1 came back, the other 2 were never heard from. my recollections are kind of fuzzy as I was just a little boy when i heard about this.
on my mother's side my grandfather was full blooded spanish, my grandfather was full indian. my father and mother met in delicias chihuahua. both my mother and father were born in the united states but their parents went back to where i was born, delicias when they were little. anyway, my mother's mom told me about her brother who moved to the united states looking for work and got drafted. last thing they heard from him is that he was going to a place called europe.
when i was growing up in delicias, my uncle used to work for a japanese family that owned a store. I was curious and asked the Japanese owner why he was in mexico. he told me in broken spanish because he didnt want to go to jail and so he moved into mexico. never understood this till i moved to the united states and learned about the Japanese concentration camps.
just amazing how I have families that fought with pancho villa, by the way my father's grandmother hated him as he was a viscous killer. have relatives that fought with and against germans, my father was a marine in vietnam, me and my younger brother both were marines. my oldest son joined the marines, he couldnt face life after all he saw, so he passed away almost 3 years ago. my son in law is in the airforce based in omaha, my nephew is in korea been there for 6 years. i have uncles that joined the mexican marines or the army years ago.
I dont consider my family a military family, more like we did what we could based on our own thoughts of what we wanted to do.
anyway I am just posting my thoughts here.
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