Talked to Mom today... and learned another family secret about Dad's side of the family--
It seems that my Dad's father went back to eastern Europe after WWI to sell tractors and to be kind of an informal US spy or something... while he was there someone gave him a bag of diamonds to hold -- and then that someone got killed. Grandpa had the diamonds and didn't know where they belonged to -- and he aslo wasn't so sure he wasn't next -- so he came home.
When he got here, he sold the diamonds and made a run to represent Nebraska in Congress--- failed, then he founded the American Legion in Nebraska -- and put the rest of his diamond money in the stock market.... before the crash.
I'll always say that my family is an interesting bunch of self-starters, I'll never say they had good timing...
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