well, both my grandmothers were born in Europe- Italy (Tolla) & Luxembourg (Blauth - of Bavarian extraction) and my father was named after the uncle who died in WWI.

My dad fought in Belgium & France before shipping over to Japan at the end of the war. I grew up watching Victory at Sea and war movies on TV. But it made me hate war and the people that start the wars, not the actual combatants...

wars are fought by people - some bad but most good... and wars will only end when people - on all sides- refuse to wage war. we need to understand and remember days of the year...

peace...