Noose Found Around The Neck Of Statue Honoring Civil Rights Icon At Ole Miss

[JustAnotherGen]

25. Ahh

My german ancestry came here around the same time and settled in what is now Pittsburgh. You may be a bit older than me perhaps? I know my grandfather (WW II Vet) of all German American heritage had a deep dislike for those like him on the other side of the pond. And it was brutal for my Great Grandfather during WW I.

If it makes you feel better - long story short - the German Veteran elite (read in between the lines) officers had a little club in Weisbaden and they welcomed my dad and Green Berets of all 'colors and creeds' in - because 30 years later . . . it was an acknowledgement of being elite. Nothing more and nothing less. They had 'respect' for them. My mom's dad and her maternal grandfather (French immigrant who fought in World War I) didnt' really appreciate my dad going there . . . but it wasn't their time or place to chastise him. And my mom has said deep down her father actually kind of liked that they acknowledged that a black man was their 'equal'.