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I have a half-brother I've never met who my dad had when he was a dumb 18 year old (which my dad found out about decades after the fact), so said half-brother is uhhh around twenty years older than me. I found out in eighth grade, and last I knew my dad had broken off contact with him a couple years ago because he kept asking for money.
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Another one I thought of was that I'm fairly sure judging from what he's divulged to me and information I've gleaned from his old squad/unit/whatever-mates that my dad was involved with Air America or something similar in Vietnam and Laos, flying helicopters that were involved with less-savory aspects of the US in SE Asia at the time. He's mentioned rescue missions but he's also kind of said things in passing that made me think there might have been some shadier poo poo. He's agreed finally to let me do a lot of interviews in the hopes of recording his experience so I'll be curious to see what may or may not come out.
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Oct 7, 2015 15:59
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Baudolino posted:My mother`s father was a pretty good and decent man. His only sin was getting my mother`s mother pregant out of wedlock. But his uncle worked with the Nazi`s and got a lot of loot from them. He even got a apartment formerly owned by a Jewish Family. He and his wife served time in jail after the war for treason. Funny enough his brother was the complete opposite and joined the resistance precisly because he as a police officers did not want to deport Jews.  It's so loving important to have these both for family history and just general history but so many families (at least in the US) don't give a poo poo. Reading the autobiography my maternal granddad did and finding out he was involved in the really nasty union vs. scabs/Pinkerton wars on the union side was really a new look at the man I knew him as.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:17
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KaiserSchnitzel posted:Well, apparently, there were letters from about a certain time to my grandfather's grandmother that called into question the paternity of my grandfather's father. If it sounds like that episode of Black Adder, it is pretty much the same plot. However, instead of Edmund blustering into the throne room to dramatically recite the damning evidence of his mother's infidelity, my grandmother (in her 60s at this time; this was about 30 years ago) burst into the room, where a family dinner was ongoing, clutching a crumpled, decades-old piece of personal correspondence, and shouted at my grandfather:" You're not who I married! Your grandmother was a whore and instead of marrying a [my family's name, redacted] I married the son of a bastard Dufresne! You're nothing but the grandson of a scoundrel beaver-bagger!" [apparently this "Dufresne" character was a trapper.]  Holy poo poo.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:44
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beedeebee posted:Read this as if he was frantically spinning his brother around, hitting the Mexican guys. Don't tell me I'm wrong.
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Oct 7, 2015 22:20
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