Sorry to have to tell you this, Forty-Niner, but somebody at post #72 using your handle used mongrel and other such words to refer to Ted Cruz. You might want to bring this matter up with the moderator so you aren’t made to look like some kind of slack jaw yokel that just fell off the back of a hay wagon.
No, I am not a son or daughter of the American Revolution. But, if you are of English descent, your ancestors were among the first to recombine the human DNA. Engiish only came into existence relatively recently. But, you would certainly know this, being a gentleman who finds throwing around words like mongrel to be bad form.
On my mother’s side, I’m of Italian ancestry and on my father’s German. When my uncles on both sides served during WWII, they did so because they put country above blood line. My father’s older brother served in the Army Air Force and helped to bomb the country of his ancestry. My mother’s two brothers served in the 82nd Airborne and with Patton’s Third Army. It was after the war that they learned one rescued the other at Bastogne. My father served during the Korean War. I during the Viet Nam War. My son serves today. But, as you say, we’re not 100 percent American.
As a boy, I found the line “land where my fathers died” curious. I had no fathers that died in this country. Today, with the passing of both my grandfathers and my father, I don’t find that lines curious any longer.
“Sorry to have to tell you this, Forty-Niner, but somebody at post #72 using your handle used mongrel....”
That was me......from post #141...”My use (Of mongrel in post #72) in the analogy concerned CITIZENSHIP...” Were I you I’d be working on my reading and reading comprehension skills.
So you are a Natural Born Citizen! Most of us are..... most except Cruz. He’s a Canadian born Cuban. Not of our breed. Not of any breed....a mongrel...Take heart, it’s not that bad..... he is a Canine!
Military heritage? Most recently my uncle was a plank owner of the USS Missouri and served on it until after WWII. My father designed/built WWII fighter planes.
A cousin served the Marine Corps for over 30 years, most of it assigned to the White House. I watched him on TV numerous times at White House events. I have a rare Italian surname with Less than 1200 listed in the US, but if you Goggled it and USMC you’ll get multiple hits. My Italian side, and I, favor the Corps, while my mother’s English/Scottish side favor the Navy, both US and British. (A great grandfather was an British Admiral who spent his last years of service under Churchill.)
I grew up less than 2 miles from where Patton grew up. The Patton home no longer exists. It is now a development with a short cul de sac and 5 homes on it.... “Patton Way” off of Mission Ave in San Marino Calif. If you continue west on Mission Ave you’ll come to the Southwest Military Academy founded by Patton’s paternal Grandfather(an un-reconstructed Confederate Col.). Growing up I had a daily view of MT Wilson, named after Patton’s maternal grandfather, from my parent’s kitchen window.
Pedigrees aside, Cruz hasn’t any.....A Canadian born Cuban with an American mother......in other words.....a Mutt, and ineligible for the 100% American Citizen paternal/maternal pedigree only, Office of the President. As an NBC yourself you should be as protective of that office as I am. Shame on ya!