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Subject: [Leica] Viet nam 1968! :-)
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:35:30 -0400

Jeees - We should start a LUGCDDP forum - LUG Czarist Draft Dodgers Progeny.
:-)


On 6/25/09 2:16 PM, "Robert Meier" <robertmeier at usjet.net> wrote:

> My grandfather, and his brother, came over in the 1890's to escape
> the Czar's army.  They departed from Latvia.   He was an active
> member of the I.W.W. for decades.  Bob
> 
> 
> On Jun 25, 2009, at 1:13 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> George! Your grandfather and my great grandfather may have been on
>> the same
>> boat! :-) In fact...when I was in college in the mid-late 60s I had
>> what I
>> thought was a great idea for a book. It was going to be called "We
>> Are Our
>> Grandfathers' Children," and it was going to be an oral history
>> focusing on
>> the political connections between Jewish anti-war, SDS, campus
>> radicals and
>> their grandfathers - and mothers - many of whom were draft-avoiders
>> from
>> Czarist Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe, whose politics
>> were way to
>> the left of center. The parents of the kids, on the other hand,
>> were very
>> often relatively conservative, staid suburbanites. Unfortunately I
>> decided
>> that no one would publish a book by someone just out of college -
>> this was
>> quite a while ago when there were still standards - and in the
>> intervening
>> years all the grandfathers have died.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/25/09 1:51 PM, "George Lottermoser" <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Interesting Henning.
>>> 
>>> My paternal grandfather came to the U.S
>>>   in the early 1900's
>>> to avoid conscription into the Russian Army .
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> George Lottermoser
>>> george at imagist.com
>>> http://www.imagist.com
>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>>> 
>>> On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Henning Wulff wrote:
>>> 
>>>> My dad had come to Canada to get away from a Europe that didn't
>>>> seem to want to avoid war, and I didn't want to go to a country
>>>> that seemed to want to wage war in all the corners of the Earth.
>>> 
>>> 
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