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JustAnotherGen

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2. My great uncle Jessie

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Mon Nov 1, 2021, 02:12 PM

Nov 2021

Was in the 93rd.

When my parents got married - he met an old friend . . . My great grandfather (mom's maternal grandfather) who was young French Army Captain -

That French Army Captain had a few care packages from home and remembered the black servicemen from the USA hesitant to drink out of the same bottle of home made wine.

It simply wasn't done in the USA.

The world is a small place - and nothing in my life is random.

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