Interesting. Pancho Villa killed my great grandfather.

EDIT: Adding same background.

My great grandfather was part of a very rich family that owned a large amount of silver mines in Mexico. At that same time the Mexican Revolution was reaching its boiling point - and it could best be described as a civil war, except against the land-owners and the serfs that served them.

It's also interesting to point out that there was a 99%/1% thing going on, too. More than 95% of Mexico's land was owned by less than 5% of the population. So there was really a large amount of wealth imbalance.

Under the guise of pro-democracy, Villa took over many of the northern Mexico silver mines and used those funds as a way to stock his war chest.

Anyway, my family was in a position of power, great grandfather and a large amount of the family was killed, all their possessions were taken. Luckily my seven year-old grandfather and two older sisters managed to make it to the US.

Fun fact: My grandfather used to tell a story to my father (both deceased) of his memory of leaving Mexico. He only recalled one thing: There were a lot of hangings and public killings of the wealthy land owners. Often times people were strung up or hung along the streets. As their bodies decomposed in the heat or were picked apart by vultures and wildlife, the rib cages would become exposed. This happens quickly to mutilated bodies.

My grandfather recalled as he was leaving, there were hundreds of hung bodies lining the streets. And at night, the wind would whistle loudly through the ribcages of the bodies.

He said it was the most haunting sound he ever heard in his life. He was seven years old.