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Posted by Cuyler Salyer
on 5/5/2009, 8:38 am
Message modified by board administrator 5/7/2009, 6:01 am
Happy 5 de Mayo;
Hi all;
Just had to welcome you all to go out grab a Cervesa and enjoy the one day the Mexicano's allow us crazy Gringo's to Celebrate one of Mexico's various Revolutions! Cinco de Mayo. It's kind of morphed into being like St Patrick's Day but with our friends south of the border.
You see, I woke in a festive manor. I wake up to drum beats and bugle's playing from a School about a mile a way. What's this I say? Then the auto alarm radio goes on with a really nice old Mexican song being sung. Voila, it clicks. It's our day! The Day the Gringos Celebrate one of Mexico's Independence Day's. The day they kicked the bloody French out. (Sr. Cliffardo you got to get me a new word as Bloody refers to the Lymies!).
Well actually, the Day of the famous Battle of Puebla. When the Mexicano's defeated the French in Puebla. I've been there climbed around the Monument and all over the "Forts". Quite an achievement really. It was on a hill not too far from the Rio and downtown Puebla. The French had the high ground (a real advantage), and not one but two Forts, one stacked higher than the other. A whole lot better place to defend than "Inchon" in Vietnam. Well they got their but kicked, and not too soon thereafter they had a Battle at Chapultepec at the Castle on the Hill in Mexico City. There they shot up that little runt "Maximilliano" and took over the Palace and declared Mexico "Free". You can still see the pictures, and the very uniform (with the bullet holes in it) in the Museum in Chapultepec Park at the Castle.
So, what did the residents of Puebla get out of all this? Besides Freedom, they still have a few nice French neighborhoods, a tradition of areas with nice French food. Voila!
So get out there and order a Mexican Beer and raise a little hell - like we do every month here in Mexico!
Cuyler
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