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American Hispanics accounted for 25 %   Vietnam casulties while only 4.5 % at home during  that time.
 
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American Hispanics, above and beyond the call of duty



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16th century Spanish spoke in Concho, Arizona

October 7, 1979 in an interview 
by kearney Egerton with Mrs. Lucinda Perez

The villagers of Cubero, New Mexico, had been isolated
from Mexico by the Jornado del Muerto that lay between
them and the Pass of the North on the Rio Grande and from
the old cities of Albuquerque, and Santa Fe by what then was
a considerable distance.  It was only in the 20th century that
the descendants of Candelaria, moving to Arizona's larger 
towns and cities, achieve a kinship with the people of Sonora and Chihuahua.

Spanish words and phrases linger in the remote villages of the Southwest.

When Lucinda Perez became a Saint Johns schoolteacher in
1939, she sometimes had difficulty understanding the people of Concho. 

"Often you had to give the Spanish they spoke considerable thought," she said. 

The word for halter was cabestro, not soga or laso.  A command to listen was escucha, not oye. A skillet was a puela, not a  sarten.

Mrs Perez asked her father about the strange words.  her father, a student of Greek, Latin and classical Spanish, told her that the words had come from the old country. 

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