Each year, Mexico honors Irish-American Saint Patrick’s Brigade (San Patricios)

Mar 152010
 
 15/03/2010  Posted by PMC at 06:01 on 15/03/2010 8 Responses »
Each year, Mexico honors Irish-American Saint Patrick's Brigade (San Patricios)

From behind the bullet-scarred walls of an ancient fortress, the wail of bagpipes and a thundering bass drum echoed through a plaza in the center of Mexico City. Passers-by stopped in their tracks. Children craned for a look as a platoon of Mexican bagpipers marched through the gates in tribute to a strange and divisive chapter of Irish-American history. The bagpipers play each month in honor of the St. Patrick Battalion, a group of 600 Irish-American soldiers who switched sides to fight for Mexico in the 1846-1848 Mexican-American War. Mexico lost half its territory to the United States as a ….Read More

Cinco de Mayo 2008

May 052008
 
 05/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 16:07 on 05/05/2008 4 Responses »
Cinco de Mayo 2008

The 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but it should be! And Cinco de Mayo is not an American holiday, but it should be. Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810. And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico. So, why Cinco de Mayo? And why should Americans savor this day as well? Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862. ….Read More

Veterans Day 2007 – Remembering the forgotten Veterans

Nov 122007
 
 12/11/2007  Posted by PMC at 15:49 on 12/11/2007 Comments Off

Many don’t realize there are National Cemeteries around the world where veterans from all wars are buried. It might surprise some to know there is also one in Mexico City, closed to internments since 1923, but still maintained today Throughout the War with Mexico it was the practice of the U.S. Army, following major military engagements, to bury the dead in mass graves on or near the battlefield where they fell. Generally, this task was performed as quickly as possible for one very practical reason: the warm climate in which most of the war was fought hastened decomposition.

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