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In reply to the discussion: Russians mock Obama with racist images on US Embassy in Moscow [View all]JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)When my great grandmother and step great grandfather were there! I was born at Rammstein AFB - because there was an incident at the hospital I was supposed to be born at two weeks prior - lived in Weisbaden. My mom was pregnant with me and out taking a middle of the night walk when the Israeli athletes were murdered in Munich. She created quite a brouhaha since my dad (Green Beret) was off playing war games in Central America at the time and she and my older brother were the only residents in that tower at the time. They literally broke down her door because they were concerned!
My step great grandfather was a military doctor during World War II.
My mom's dad came out quickly after the war - and they moved back to Denver.
My french heritage comes from my Great Grandfather Boucher - he immigrated right after World War I - he had been an army captain in the French Army and hated - hated the 'peace'. He knew they were going to do it again so he got the hell out of dodge. And you know what? He was right! My generation of that branch of my family has 5 Adriennes - we are named after his and his brothers' mom. They all live in Nice, Marseille - and one now is now down in Ramatuelle.
Now if you really want to hear they/thems - THAT was the guy. He held an extreme hatred towards the Germans. And then it amplified after WW II.
My dad never felt that way about the Vietnamese, Cambodians, South/Central Americans, Koreans though . . . He became and isolationist pacificist in the early 1980's.