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German-Americans - The silent minority
The Economist ^
| February 7, 2015
Posted on 10/06/2015 6:49:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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We are legion.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yep, and I share the name. I’m even a plumber. LOL
We come from a long line of charcoal makers.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
As a Sheboygan native, I enjoyed this.
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posted on
10/06/2015 6:53:04 PM PDT
by
Luke21
(Go Ted go.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Bratwurst und Rotkohl soul food.
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posted on
10/06/2015 6:55:55 PM PDT
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BigEdLB
(Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
OK FReepers, make a mental note - It's 1854. There are no roads, no bridges, and there sure as Hell weren't any planes, and surely Mr. Kohler had to either go across through treacherous land from when he got off the boat in NYC or navigated through the Great Lakes. And Sheboygan is in the mid-part of Eastern Wisconsin so he still had to go across more treacherous terrain, weather, and Indians.
Now how did he and other immigrants then survive and assimilated, but today's immigrants, with modern conveniences, travel, and gadgets up the wazoo, can't do the same?
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posted on
10/06/2015 6:57:12 PM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(I am going to get those guns out of peoples hands. - Hillary Clinton 10/05/2015)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
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posted on
10/06/2015 6:59:00 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Waelderhaus - "a house in the woods" Construction 1929-1931 Architect: Kaspar Albrecht
To: BigEdLB
Been doing Faceboot too long, I went looking for the “Like” button for your post!
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posted on
10/06/2015 7:03:10 PM PDT
by
Mr. Dough
(Who was the greater military man, General Tso or Col. Sanders?)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
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posted on
10/06/2015 7:04:29 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Helping a friend with some World War I records for his family near Sheboygan, we came across a newspaper article about Mr. Kohler who was the local chairman for war bonds. He announced a quota for all households in the area and he promised to publish a list of anyone who failed to participate. He later followed up with his promise and published all the names of those who did not subscribe to the war bond drive. I guess being Anti Kaiser was good business.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
German/Irish heritage here ... but full-blooded American.
And on top of all that ... Texan!
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posted on
10/06/2015 7:12:38 PM PDT
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al_c
(Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The article omits a very important and very early German emigration which occurred about three quarters of a century before the Declaration of Independence. These Germans were mostly pilgrims in the sense that the Plymouth Rock Pilgrims of 1620 were religious refugees. About a century later, many Germans made the same trip, proceeding down the Rhine to Holland, wintering there and then proceeding on to America.
When they arrived they found that the English had taken most of the attractive and arable coastal lands so they moved inland. Many of them were Mennonites and Amish but most of them were yeomen farmers who pioneered homesteads and farmed typically without slaves. The German farmers were probably the most efficient and most successful farmers of that age. They maintained a bilingual culture in many places such as in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia which continued up until the first world war when the language as well as the German nation fell into disfavor. Of course the Amish still speak an interesting dialect of German to this day.
There is an interesting anecdote which appears in the Virginia Historical Society papers describing an incident in the Shenandoah Valley when a Confederate officer dispatched from Richmond stood on a wagon to harangue the crowd to secure volunteers for the Confederate Army. After he spoke a few words he was interrupted and told that he could speak English if he preferred.
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10/06/2015 7:15:27 PM PDT
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nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
My Mom was German. My Dad’s family was here from almost the beginning, 1607 Jamestown Colony.
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10/06/2015 7:21:45 PM PDT
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BuffaloJack
(Political Correctness is Suppression of Free Speech. Thank the Commies for Political Correctness.)
To: nathanbedford
At Oktoberfest in Fort Wayne, IN, I saw renactors for the 32nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry. The 32nd used German as its command language. Fort Wayne has one of the 2 Lutheran High Schools in the entire state of Indiana.
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10/06/2015 7:24:52 PM PDT
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Lysandru
To: BuffaloJack
The Samuel, September 18, 1682, John Adey, master, one of Penn’s fleet.
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10/06/2015 7:26:59 PM PDT
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2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Germanic stock here, too. At least as far back as we can go on that side of the family.
L
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posted on
10/06/2015 7:27:17 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
We are legion and we Vote!
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posted on
10/06/2015 7:28:14 PM PDT
by
Art in Idaho
(Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
To: BuffaloJack
Exactly the same here. Dad is a Jamestown descendent and Mom is an ESL German.
To: Mr. Dough
Been doing Faceboot too longThat's "Das Faceboot."
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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10/06/2015 7:35:12 PM PDT
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IronJack
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