Today is going to be about Francisco Trejo Leon!
Basically he wrote a novel in the style of letters and he also has these random clippets of pictures and news articles he picked up.
So the novel he wrote, or I believe it seems to be a novel, is called En Cuatro Vientos no se sublevo' nadie which basically means, In 4 winds, no one rose in rebellion.
So our man Leon was the Colonel of Engineering and Aviation and he writes to his dad about his position, saying that no one really understands what they're doing and he's had to undertake so much work to get them back in order.
I guess a novel isn't the best way to describe it but rather a manly form of a scrapbook. It's actually really cool and I recommend it to all.
In the "scrapbook", he has a copy of his receiving a Spanish passport along with a map of Spain.
As for the whole, Cuatro Vientos, basically what it was is a place that he was stationed at and he talks about all of the Generals clothing and how it's so clean cut compared to all the other soldiers.
There's also many news articles and one I picked out was called, "unos cuantos aviadores leales tuvieron a raya y lograron dominar a los traidores que intentaban sumarse a los facciosos" and I may be a little off in this translation but what it means is something along the lines of some of the loyal aviators were at the bay and they managed to dominate the traitors that intended to join the facists. (I don't know if the bay part is correct but whatevs).
Overall, it was actually a really cool little collection because you don't see many novel/scrapbook like collections and most of all, men don't seem to do it. So it was just really cool. It also showed that through all the letters he was REALLY close to his father, which I thought was cute :)
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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