re: #71 EmmmieG

Actually, I’ve been working on the German ancestors recently, and I keep thinking that the “unlucky” brothers who didn’t inherit the farm came to the US, but how much luckier were their descendants when WWI & WWII hit, and they weren’t living in the middle of a battlefield?

I don’t know if I will ever know much about my German ancestors—in the sparse family records I have, the couple who came over are named ‘Mary and Peter Muller’—yes, I’m sure they will be easy to track down!!

I’ve always thought it was a great example of karmic justice, how much of the ass-kicking administered to Hitler’s Reich came at the hands of German-American farmboys from Kansas, whose grandfathers were lucky enough to make their way to the new world.