Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]fascinating! grandchildren (and great grandchildren) of draft dodgers who also did (or didn't) a bit of draft dodging themselves many different forms of courage 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 1:16 PM, Robert Meier 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. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information