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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1981
Researcher says Hispanic-Americans usually ignored
Search for forgotten heroes
United Press International
LAREDO — Homer Gallegos has spent the past three
years in search of heroes, and he’s found plenty among
Hispanic-Americans.
Gallegos, 34, a Vietnam veteran working for the veter
ans outreach center in the border city, said he’s just com
pleted a study to compile the names and stories of Hispanic
Medal of Honor winners. “History has a way of forgetting
some of the people who have made it,” Gallegos said.
So with some help from the American GI Forum, a
Mexican-American veterans organization of which he’s a
member, Gallegos started his own quest to see that Hispa
nic heroes were not forgotten.
“I was reading Spanish publications and I noticed a lot of
discrepancies,” he said. “There was Miguel Hernandez
Keith, who was never counted among Hispanic heroes. His
last name comes from his stepfather, but nevertheless he’s
Mexican-American and he’s excluded from a lot of Hispanic
publications.”
With that start, Gallegos went to the national archives in
Washington, got leads from local congressmen, and started
working up his list.
“I compared lists, started gathering my own, and little
by little I built up a file,” he said. “One list had 31 names.
Then I compared it with another list that had 35 and put it
together. ”
He found two Hispanic Medal of Honor winners in the
Civil War — when the medal was first struck — one in the
Boxer Rebellion, nine in Korea, 12 in World War II and 13
in Vietnam.
Notably missing from the list were Medal of Honor
winners from World War I. Gallegos set about to find out
why.
He said there was a mistrust of Mexico during World
War I when relations were strained by the Pancho Villa
raid in Columbus, N.M., and the Zimmerman Note from
Germany proposing an alliance with Mexico.
“I found one report where the officer says, T can’t
recommend this man for the Medal of Honor because he
can’t even speak English,”’ Gallegos said.
Gallegos said he finished the study this year, when
former Green Beret sergeant Roy Benavides of El Campo
was awarded the Medal of Honor 12 years after the fact.
“I liked doing this because I love history,” said Gallegos.
“And I thought this would create an educational aware
ness. America is made up of a lot of immigrants who have
contributed to the defense of democracy.”
Gallegos said Hispanics traditionally have tended to
approach military service with gusto.
“In our culture there’s a tendency to go for the Marines,
the airborne, the special forces,” he said. “Some of us even
catch a little of, ‘Oh, him, he went Air Force’ or ‘He went
Navy.’ There’s a machismo instinct, I guess, and some
times I think it’s detrimental to us, because we did take
heavy casualties.”
He said he hoped his study would be as enlightening to
Hispanics as it could be to others.
Officials plead ip
for equipment
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United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Bexar County Jail officials are pleadintp
upated medical equipment, but they acknowledge that theirfc
resucscitation equipment would not have helped a woman V'A'v/
to commit suicide. ^
The woman, jailed since June 17 on a theft charge, trid
commit sucide early Saturday by hanging herself with abed sfe
Resucscitation equipment failed when authorities tried tomit
her. She has been in a coma since then.
Bexar County Jail Medical Director Dr. John Sparks,
appeared early Monday before the Bexar County CommissW 5^’^
Court pleading for money for new jail medical equipment, sail;
woman apparently suffered permanent brain damage fromaladl
oxygen.
During an interview after the commissioners court hea.^
Sparks said having state-of-heart resucscitation equipment
have made no difference” for the woman because she had
without oxygen for at least five minutes prior to beingdiscovertii
the jail nurse.
“Apparently, she was without oxygen long enough tocauseki
damage,” Sparks said.
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Texas
Briefs
Fruit flies
United Press International
AUSTIN — The governor has
issued a proclamation calling for
inspection of all California pro
duce entering Texas in order to
check for the Mediterranean Fruit
Fly.
Gov. Bill Clements said Mon
day he issued the proclamation
because California leaders failed
to act forcefully to halt any spread
of pesky insect.
Although the proclamation
does not call for a quarantine, it
would allow state officials to in
spect California produce entering
the state to see if it had been
approved under federal quaran
tine procedures.
Escapee caught
United Press International
McKINNEY — A man who
escaped from the Collin County
Jail during the weekend, and his
girlfriend who is believed to aided
the escape of four inmates, has
been arrested in Springfield, Ill.
Springfield authorities notified
Collin County Sheriff Joe Steen-
bergen they had arrested Thomas
William Bell, 23, and his girl
friend, Peggy Mooney. Both are
being held on $100,000 bond
pending extradition to Texas.
Steenbergen said Mooney
helped in the escape Friday of the
four inmates, one of whom was
recaptured Sunday in Louisiana.
Steenbergen also said another
escapee, Phillip James Followell,
22, is from Springfield and author
ities believe he is in the area.
Pilot injured
United Press International
HOUSTON — Authorities re
port a helicopter pilot suffered
head injuries in the crash of his
chopper into a parking lot be
tween a motel and a nine-story
office building.
Doctors said Kenneth Riebl-
ing, 33, an employee of Power Air
Helicopters Inc., was the only
person aboard the Bell Jet Ranger
helicopter early Monday when it
crashed on takeoff. He was in
stable condition Monday.
A witness said the helicopter
pilot tried twice to safely land the
chopper between the buildings
but it went into several spins and
hit both structures.
R edis tricting
United Press International
AUSTIN — The vice president
sees nothing wrong with proposed
congressional redistricting plans
that would increase the number of
Republicans representing Texas
in Washington.
Vice President George Bush, in
the state Monday to campaign for
passage of President Reagan’s tax
cut proposals, was asked at a news
conference about Republican
strategy pushed by Gov. Bill Cle
ments to create a black congres
sional districts in Dallas that also
would have the effect of giving Re
publicans a majority in at least one
previously Democratic district.
Trip planned
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Phil Hard-
berger plans to cross the Atlantic
in four days in honor of the Canary
Islanders who founded San
Antonio.
He said it took the Canary
Islanders about 365 days to com
plete the rugged trip. He said his
trip is a “gesture of friendship” to
the people of Spain.
The attorney will pilot a single
engine Beechcraft plane on a solo
7,000-mile trek in honor of the
Canary Islanders who eventually
founded San Antonio. He plans to
take off early Wednesday.
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