Veteran's Day Salute

[nuxvomica]

22. Both my grandfathers served in WWI

My grandfather Mauro was a Sicilian immigrant who served in Europe and was awarded citizenship for it. My grandfather George, the only one of that generation I knew in my adulthood, served in Pershing's expeditionary force in the Southwest against Pancho Villa. His service was noted in the New York papers ("War veteran's sister marries former German spy" ) when his sister married a former spy for the kaiser who had defected and helped the US war effort. That was my great uncle Mark, a brilliant chemist, who I remember meeting when I was a kid.