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On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<sIGdnUMTrtfaAhrVnZ2dnUVZ_ofinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Melson wrote:

ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:

Ever see the statue in the rest area on I-280 just North of CA-92

Nope, can't say as I have. But my years in CA were pre-Interstate;
US 99 and 101 were _the_ N-S corridors, Cal 1 what you took for
scenic.

101 is still a major corridor. I-280 is merely a 'ring' road around
the West side of the bay area - it continues as 680 on the East side.

We've had something of a brouhaha locally over a program to
memorialize important people and events in the city's history.
City commissioned an equestrian statue of Don Juan de Onate, who
was the leader of the first expedition to explore and colonize the
area north of the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande to us gringos). Onate was
a typical Spanish Conquistador and, politely, brutalized the
Indians both locally and up around Albuquerque,

20/21st century mores verses "the way it was" 400+ years earlier.

So, long story much less long, statue was finished, PC groups
protested, city backed down, renamed the statue "The Equestrian" and
more-or-less hid it near the local airport. Was finally
installed/unveiled about 2.5 years after it was completed and
delivered. What neither the city council nor the protesters
understand is that you can't change history by denying it.

But it _appears_ to be better to the mind with the six second attenion
span. We've got the same problem here with the renaming of Squaw Peak
and the nearby freeway. After 370+ years, we now learn this Algonquin
word may be naughty. The mountain and freeway are now named 'Piestewa
Peak' - after Pfc Lori Piestewa, a Hopi mother of two who, as an Army
truck driver, was killed in an ambush in Iraq while lost during the
invasion in March 2003.

Seems to me that the city was incorporated in the 1870s as El Paso -
which naturally caused a helluva lot of confusion. Before that it
was Franklin, from about 1850 or so. As noted, the original El
Paso became Cd. Juarez in the late 1880s, so the confusion didn't
last.

Looks like it's time to hit the history section of the city library
around the corner.

El Paso has been the site of Fort Bliss since the 1850/60 period,
as well, the post having had several locations over that time. It
was originally down along the river as a cavalry post. As the times
changed, so did its mission, tho' it was the staging area for
Pershing's expedition into Mexico.

The several times I've been to El Paso have all been related to
activities at Bliss and the ranges to the North.

Old guy
.

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