Thanks, OR!
My dad is a retired physicist (and from the first class of Freepers in the nineties) who currently is a historian and geneaologist who has written a number of books. He is always emailing me with new people that he has proven links to, and my mom’s family has also been here since the 1600’s, and it is through her that we are DC first generationers. She has a trunk from her great-grandmother that has a program and silverware that they snatched from Lincoln’s inaugural ball (they were invited guests, though we have become much less blue blooded in the intervening years!)
My kids are taken to so many battlegrounds and US heritage sights that I think he has a very good grasp on what made this country so special.
I agree that my son is a NBC, and I only posted because I am sick of people saying that NBC is cut and dry without two citizen parents. If it was widely known and accepted that NBC = two citizen parents in modern times, I can’t think that the Supreme Court would have sat on their hands when it came time to swear Barry in.
That’s pretty neat that you have those kind of stories about your family. I can’t say that I have any 150 year old silverware from my family or any letters from Valley Forge, but I am descended from Revolutionary war Patriots and have copies of some of their Revolutionary War pension applications. It’s pretty neat to get to hear about what they went through and be proud of what kind of people they were. The principles that they fought for in the Revolution need to be protected and preserved, especially in our time when they are so strongly being attacked. By the way, I have a lot of ancestors in the US in the 1600s. Maybe we are distant cousins. ;-)
You've given everything except who your Dad is (his FReeper name that is) and what he has to say about the issue with your son, which seems totally incongruous with your whole story.
So who is he and what does he think?
I've got an idea! Why don't you ping him to the thread so he can tell us, and you, at the same time!