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I, NOW 83 HE S#EKS CITIZENSHIP
Villa Cornrcde taattIes
fi t e dak ot
wp *..,' .
rtde into the siepy town on
"9 . 4 hot eback, ledl by Mexican
T4 SW'hed t h wa A t*sti h ar h 19,
~ ;~4t~ '.I , tI tfolutionary Pancho Villa.
p he ae i to1Meth Sb
*R &A swceplftg raid 61 retalis
tdon by Villa into the United
4 3 States .etiptetd into death
r~%' the burning of bunldings anui
pursuit into the, Sierra
~,. Madre rages of Mexico.
N f1'de with Villa that dlay. In
'rthe gunfire that flared i
* *~QJ2 Acivilians and men of the
nearby .iS. 13th Cavalry
-, t- '~..x vt i~k.t /died.
l,.c 4. ',d . .A ' r, yF.', {t. ( 4; 't, t p4ka " k nn fL" fl
Ifn the rilantthe gunfgtetd
t,c MexIcan border, a num
fler of V~h'it I f rtlett.
Mormidied below the border.
'I L mtMuch whiskey had been
drunk before the raid on
Coumbus, thinking back,
A~tt4~ remarks: "I feel Ashamrd of
that. I was very young. We
took them in their steep."
S '1 ,aBUL, then, those were vio-
lent years fanned by the
N '" ~ ~ ~~~~~~Today, Pedro Gonzalez is a~ ~ SO4So eouin
j man of peace, looking for-
S ward to his naturalization as
a. a U .S. c 1ten.
- Tall, alert, diglifled, he
fl'rnembers. When he talks
of the time with Villa, a
4pitkle comes into his eyes.
Gonzaleti recalls that Villa
;nce was2flenswth Venus-
Stiano CArranta, but they
Mplit l Mexicoas in the
; y. I drul f or the Mexican p osdn
Cy.lmaus.etit ou
n ,bs rea atio for tshaed UA
4)r'^
~n The aftermath of the
,oitng tadte Ur vfnt
Vs Gen. John "lBlnekjacK"
Gonzalet gstturng with
h Peandsr aid thr elusive
S--anVilla led lershing and his
twrdtperhs nto the itra
admre oitainWheletalksetvioluttintry tader ' sat
'& tbrhd Ils fOrts Info ie
In 1916, Pancho Villa led a raS in the l p tg town' Clhh 0 d wal 4 dtM
N.M. Among the riders was A utg Metilcan soldier namdnit v A if th!#M4 *iti
Gonzalez. Today, Pedro Is 83 Atd Oekifg (.S. citizenship TkC tl* <dden pv the rIntd
an old album of lPdro's, are two photon of Pai 'ho Vii, and the youn ni,*tlna. * iy. / gy4
PedrO in un'fnrom 7Hp *etP vtetChy-
av' a sn1''ein
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Parlee, Lorena, 1945-2006 & Ott, Bill. [Clipping: Villa Comrade Recalls Battles], clipping, December 10, 1978; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2016289/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.