![]() ![]() ![]() “Now, you have two interests preparing to match up. “American men were being drafted to go fight the war,” he said. All of this came as the United States was entering World War I. ![]() They made this flight in about 1914.”ĭennis said the Mexican Revolution featured much in the way of murdered, robbed, tortured and raped civilians, and those who survived were left fleeing to get as far north as they could. “My ancestors were in Central Mexico, and rather than fight in either the government or rebel army, they decided to flee and go to Juárez and hopefully to the United States eventually. “In 1910, my great-grandfather was 60 years old, and 1910’s important because that’s when the Mexican Revolution broke out,” Dennis said. Leader & Timesįor many immigrants, the beginning of the 20th century and the 21st century bear resemblance to each other, with many escaping war-like conditions in their home country.įor the ancestors of cousins Ernest Garcia and Dennis Raphael Garcia, this was no different as their family began a journey to the American dream a little more than 100 years ago.Dennis Raphael Garcia signs a copy of his book, “Marine Public Servant Kansan: The Life of Ernest Garcia,” for Tony Martinez recently at Memorial Library. ![]()
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