Perhaps the details behind this teaser will emerge as our story unfolds.
Ha!
It's a long, long story, beginning before the Civil War, running through the First World War and well beyond.
Right "now" one of my great-grandfathers is a 20 year old unmarried farmer living with his family near Quincy, Illinois.
They are fresh off the boat from Europe and speak very little, if any, English.
They are naturally abolitionists, but they have no "dog in the fight" and indeed, it's said they left their Old Country precisely to dodge the draft into yet another senseless European war.
So my great grandfather and his younger brother will not rush off to war, but will eventually be drawn to volunteer, at just around the time of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Like I said, it's a long story... ! ;-)