Memorial Day Thanks

shogun
Thu, 29 May 2008 09:18:56 +0000

Laf1980–welcome! Your comments are spot on–. Our Uncle Willie was brought back home at the families expense. His mother and father had emigrated from Germany in 1881, and were very concerned when he volunteered to fight in 1917. They endured some petty harassment at home in Michigan, being called “Huns” both during, and for a time, after the war, yet their son was the only one from their town to come home in a box having died for his country. His mother was actually a governness for Gen Von Ludendorff when the Gen was only 5 years old, and his father had been in a German artillery regiment in 1871. The family embraced America, it’s language, and it’s culture and gave one of it’s son’s fighting their former homeland. A strange world.
I give thanks for the sacrifice of your family member as well.