[El Gato]

When you're an adult, your parents, and siblings are no longer "immediate" family, love them though you do. That's your wife and kids, if any. Most of our ancestors left their families to settle here. Mine did, from southern Germany. Although they already had a couple of kids, they did leave the rest of their relatives behind. That was in the mid 1860s. Others came both earlier and later, but those are the ones I know the most about.

I would hate to betray the promise that they came here to fulfill.

[wastedyears]

I don’t have a wife or kids; heck, I don’t even have a girlfriend, and personally I feel I’m not ready to have children at this point in time.

As far as ancestry, on my mother’s side, is Italian from Sicily the generation before her parents, from what I know. On my dad’s side, Italian, though I’m not sure from where, and Puerto Rican. What I am 100% sure of is that I’m a third generation American, with my heart pumping red, white and blue blood, and (nothing personally against you or your heritage) everything from Europe I guess “bred” out of me.

I would most certainly fight and die for this country. The night of the election, I even accepted what may be my fate in the not-too-distant future. If this country requires my life before I reach the age of 25, so be it. But America shall not fall as long as I’m alive.