FU Lockjaw. Want pictures of mine?
My dear departed mother was a good liberal like Brokaw, though she never followed politics that much.
She lived on the West Coast all of her life, and her stories about life during WWII and the Depression were riveting...when I could get them out of her.
She never spoke about the Japanese internments after Pearl Harbor, though I tried mightily several times to discuss it with her.
She was decidedly not pleased when I told her about a beautiful Hispanic woman I was dating. I then explained to her there weren't that many blue-eyed blondes in El Paso (I was stationed at Fort Bliss at the time).
Over the years, we provided her with 3 "brown grandbabies". There's no doubt she loved and adored all 3.