Nor did mine, my Dad, was a 1st Gen. US Born Citizen of Naturalized Italian parents, who came through Ellis Island. WW 2 Veteran, fought 5 major battles under Gen. MacArthur, 503rd Airborne, put the Colors back up on a telegraph pole with a PFC specially to go to the General, then ran a 2nd Flag up, under sniper fire, Bronze Star holder.
The ignorant were still calling him Dago, Wop, Spic. His dad immersed that big family totally in America, they were not allowed to speak anything but English. You didn’t cross Grandpa Joe.
And that sir, is the way all our ancestors came here. God bless em.