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After coming to the United States during the Mexican Revolution and revolutions are civil wars that aren’t civil Nana’s father Great-Grandpa Guillermo
registered for the draft in 1917 then Nana was born in Chicago and moved to
San Francisco when Great-Grandpa Guillermo’s job on the Southern Pacific
Railroad took them there where she met Grandpa who was born in Mexico and
served in the United States Army durning World War II didn’t go overseas but
was stationed at Fort Bliss Texas while she had at least three young children to
take care of back home after the war he worked in the shipyards they had six
more children all together four girls and five boys
After coming to the United States during the Mexican Revolution and revolutions are civil wars that aren’t civil Nana’s father Great-Grandpa Guillermo
registered for the draft in 1917 then Nana was born in Chicago and moved to
San Francisco when Great-Grandpa Guillermo’s job on the Southern Pacific
Railroad took them there where she met Grandpa who was born in Mexico and
served in the United States Army durning World War II didn’t go overseas but
was stationed at Fort Bliss Texas while she had at least three young children to
take care of back home after the war he worked in the shipyards they had six
more children all together four girls and five boys four of the five joined the
military two in the Army two in the Navy one soldier stayed stateside one was
sent to Korea both sailors shipped out to Vietnam
After coming to the United States during the Mexican Revolution and revolutions are civil wars that aren’t civil Nana’s father Great-Grandpa Guillermo
registered for the draft in 1917 then Nana was born in Chicago and moved to
San Francisco when Great-Grandpa Guillermo’s job on the Southern Pacific
Railroad took them there where she met Grandpa who was born in Mexico and
served in the United States Army durning World War II didn’t go overseas but
was stationed at Fort Bliss Texas while she had at least three young children to
take care of back home after the war he worked in the shipyards they had six
more children all together four girls and five boys four of the five joined the
military two in the Army two in the Navy one soldier stayed stateside one was
sent to Korea both sailors shipped out to Vietnam out of twenty-four grandchildren four joined the military two in the Army one in the Navy one in the
National Gaurd one soldier and one sailor made the military their careers
After coming to the United States during the Mexican Revolution and revolutions are civil wars that aren’t civil Nana’s father Great-Grandpa Guillermo
registered for the draft in 1917 then Nana was born in Chicago and moved to
San Francisco when Great-Grandpa Guillermo’s job on the Southern Pacific
Railroad took them there where she met Grandpa who was born in Mexico and
served in the United States Army durning World War II didn’t go overseas but
was stationed at Fort Bliss Texas while she had at least three young children to
take care of back home after the war he worked in the shipyards they had six
more children all together four girls and five boys four of the five joined the
military two in the Army two in the Navy one soldier stayed stateside one was
sent to Korea both sailors shipped out to Vietnam out of twenty-four grandchildren four joined the military two in the Army one in the Navy one in the
National Gaurd one soldier and one sailor made the military their careers now
a great-grandson is in the Marines
After coming to the United States during the Mexican Revolution and revolutions are civil wars that aren’t civil Nana’s father Great-Grandpa Guillermo
registered for the draft in 1917 then Nana was born in Chicago and moved to
San Francisco when Great-Grandpa Guillermo’s job on the Southern Pacific
Railroad took them there where she met Grandpa who was born in Mexico and
served in the United States Army durning World War II didn’t go overseas but
was stationed at Fort Bliss Texas while she had at least three young children to
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