As a G-Pa soon to be 73 my family originally fitted many of the so-called discriminated groups in the replies to The Grandfather. I served in W.W.II, my family was one of the economically deprived during the '30s depression who immigrated to another State because of it and who survived with a sense of humor and willingness to accept a bit of poetic license in a humorous piece. I feel sorry for those of you, reported to be the bulk of the Nation these days, who are accepting blindly (without question for those of you who are currently in or recently graduated from a majority of public schools in the USA) the revisions to history promulgated by the Socialists in the schools, newspapers, movies, unions and 'think tanks.' When they look at US History, the Constitution and our ways of doing business, they adopt the notion that the United States is evil, we'll never do as well as our parents and other fuzzy logic syllogisms. This justifies their turning a humorous piece into a diatribe against evils that (apparently) happened to someone else and not to the writer of the piece. Supposedly the American Indians had a saying about criticizing someone before you'd walked a mile in his moccasins. Sort of reminds me of Germany during Hitler's rise to power. Let's get back to Genealogy and improving our understanding of the trials and successes of those who have gone before us.