My family hails from Germany, Russia, and Latvia. My grandfather served in the American Military but he never talked about it. I remember seeing only one photo of him wearing his uniform, while he was taking my grandmother on a ride in a rowboat when they were in their early 20's, sometime probably in the early 1940's. Pretty sure it was an Army Garrison cap. Papa was of German heritage, his parents were immigrants to the US and so were a couple of his older siblings (he was the baby of 11 children). My father's mother was from Latvia, his dad from Germany. My mother's mother's family came from Russia but grandma was born in the USA. My dad's brother served in the Army, no idea what year, it was before I was born.
I think that makes me a third-generation American on my dad's side and 4th generation on my mom's side - since all the "great-grandparents" eventually became American citizens so that counts as a "first" generation.
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