American period
My Great Grandparents moved here from Poland and the Balkans. After they moved here there was never a hyphen in their ethnicity. Never even a thought of it. They were never Polish-American or Balkan-American.
They moved here so they could call themselves what they are, not what they were. "American".
My Grandfather told me a story when I was very young about my Great Grandfather being asked to join a "Polish-American" club in Chicago. My Great Grandfather retorted, "We may have come from Poland, but I am American now".
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Joliet, IL; Topsham, ME; Oviedo, FL; Las Vegas, NV;
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Jerry Jackson (Summerhill)
Neat bumper sticker. Went like this: "It's God's job to judge terrorists. Our job is to arrange the meeting!"
Be a gentleman, remove your hat/cap when entering a building and dining out!
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