My ansestors were Loyalists during the revolution...
and I too am a veteran...
but Im talking about NONE of his generations of Romneys ever served...
From the first arriving...
Its unusual for a family to have nobody in some war at sometime...
Civil War
WWI
WWII
Korea
Vietnam
Grenada
Iraq I
Iraq II
Afghanistan
No Romney ever served in the military..
They avoided serving in the US military...
for 7 generations...
For my own family...
I had a 6th great grandfather die in the French Indian War in 1755
His FIL fought in Queen Anns War in 1711
His SIL died in the RW
A 3rd great grandfather fought in the War of 1812
My family lived in New Zealand during the Civil War but a great grandfather fought in the Maori Wars in the 1860s and his son my grandfather fought in the Boer War in Africa
We lost family in WWI and WWII
My brother and I and several cousins served during Nam
That’s an amazing history. It’s great that your family kept such good records!
I can’t claim quite that extensive a military history. A few fought in the civil war for the Union, a few in the revolutionary war. One branch came with the Mayflower, another landed in Virginia in the 1600’s. Somehow they came together in the Midwest and ended up in California in the 1800’s. Mostly farmers with an occasional blacksmith thrown in to keep it interesting. :-)
That’s an amazing history. It’s great that your family kept such good records!
I can’t claim quite that extensive a military history. A few fought in the civil war for the Union, a few in the revolutionary war. One branch came with the Mayflower, another landed in Virginia in the 1600’s. Somehow they came together in the Midwest and ended up in California in the 1800’s. Mostly farmers with an occasional blacksmith thrown in to keep it interesting. :-)