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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Mexican Refugee Camp Memorial Unveiled at Ft. Bliss |
| 2009-02-27 |
| Wed. a marker at Fort Bliss was unveiled. It commemorates a 27 acre internment camp where 6000 refugees from a Mexican civil war were housed in 1914. The refugees spent 6 months there & were transferred to Ft. Wingate NM for another 4 months. In 1910 Mexico's population was about 15 million, now it's 100 million. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |