This is my great-grandfather. With 8 kids to feed..he lost his farm during the depression. The banker, through connivery sold the farm… personally..and no doubt illegally…for personal profit. We all have ancestors who came before us…who worked very hard. Remember them..as we fight for freedom.
America's backbone is built from immigrants who worked hard to support his family, in the land of opportunities. The banker in your great grandfather's story sounds like our current FOTUS. Thank you for sharing your story.
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My grandpa was born in 1896. He worked in the kentucky coal mines all his life, except for the last year of ww1. He was a deeply religious man and had black lung. He was small in stature, but mighty in his faith, his family, and his country. Im pretty sure he'd be disappointed in our country today.
Been doing some research myself. My father’s side links directly back to John Alden. My father’s middle name is Alden. John came over on the Mayflower and was a barrel maker. He had 16 kids. One leading to me. That is one branch of my ancestry. You know what makes up 99% of the rest? Immigrants!!!
Appreciate the sentiment, however. The Mayflower was a boatload of immigrants. Just to point out the obvious.
No, they were colonizers. “ An immigrant is someone who moves to a new country to settle permanently, typically integrating into the existing society and its laws….
…..A colonizer, on the other hand, is someone who establishes control over a new territory, often displacing or subjugating the existing population and imposing their own political and cultural systems.”
Turns out I’m descended from one of the Pratt bros on the Arabella Stuart (2nd ship.) Wish I’d known that when I lived in Plymouth! I have to get reading my Philbrick…
You are lucky to have photos of your ancestors. The older I get the more i miss the fact that i have no photos.
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Compelling. My maternal grandfather was a WV coal miner. Six kids and they were all loved, fed, clothed, and educated in spite of hardships. He worked hard in dangerous conditions and died of Black Lung. I will never forget him, his love and kindness and how his family always came first.
That is a wonderful photograph, Jack. Treasure it. 💙
The rich and powerful are always out to screw the working man/woman. Especially those who were/are immigrants to this country…and we are all descendants of immigrants
Bet that broke his heart... Never, trust a banker !
Just rewatched Hitchcock’s “Return of Verge Likens” Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Season 3, Episode 1, available on Prime & Peacock. You might enjoy.
Wow what an amazing picture.
Dont forget all the people who were under water and lost their homes in the 2008 republican generated banking crisis. Bankers. Financial industry. And the medical bankruptcies in recent decades. Insurance companies.
My Croatian grandfather arrived in the U.S. on the 4th of July 1909 on the ship America. My father was one of the first troops to storm Omaha Beach on D Day. This is no longer the country Grandpa sought or Dad risked his life for.
This is my family circa 1934. The little one is my mom. They all came from Russia and managed through the Depression because everyone got some kind of a job here in Detroit.
Some people probably only have to go back as far as the 1980s to find the Reagan administration and the FHA responsible for putting many farmers out on the street. Most of us have never forgotten that.
He was as tough as nails. I can tell. It comes through in the photo.
Yup. My grandfather lost his home in the depression to the same chicanery.
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My grandfather went all over to find work as a young man, hopping trains and painting water towers. He met my grandmother while working as a traveling salesman. He often had to leave her and their child, my mom, for long stretches during the Depression. I have never known anyone who worked harder.
Amen. Thank you for the reminder for gratitude and inspiration. My grandmother taught me about the potato famine and “the consumption” in Ireland. My great grandparents came over here with the clothes on their backs and one suitcase.
To the death....
Rad photo!!!!!
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One of my great grandfather’s hung himself in the barn during the same thing. Mom’s father’s side- the matrilineal line somehow got through, kept their places intact. Many, many stories though. Fine horse there.
Well, I think I see the problem. It looks like your great grandfather may have been a horse. I can't say I've ever heard of any horses with outstanding business acumen, you know?
My immigrant Finnish great grandfather died of black lung from working in underground iron mines so he could give his family a better life. He left Finland to avoid Russian conscription. All eight left Finland, Sweden and Norway, and two were only grand parents. The USA is built on immigrants!
My paternal grandmother didn’t speak English. My husbands grandmother didn’t speak English.
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Good time for everyone to read The Grapes of Wrath
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They’re trying to do this again to the country
You are so right. I walk my dog in a cemetery, and I find myself apologizing to all those who served. Our local cemeteries place flags on the graves who served for Memorial Day and take them down after Veterans Day.
Same Here.
This is my grandfather who lived through the depression also. He is plowing Harry Trumans mom's field in Grandview Missouri.
I love this photo. It saddens me of the suffering and hardships our grandparents and great grandparents went through during the depression. The many sacrifices they made, particularly, when our country was at war. You’re right though. We must remember them as we fight for our democracy.
Just because life is often unfair doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't fight as hard as we can for fairness and justice.
Watching part 2 of the Billy Joel documentary and seeing what his father and grandparents went through is gut wrenching.
Wonderful photo, sad tale.
Smallholders were pushed off the land, If they would not / could not enter peonage or sharecropping. Mechanization just allowed landowners to operate massive farms with no farmworkers. That's part of the reason you can't find Americans to harvest.
Legend! Your were born later. Lets go !
FREEDOM!!!
My dad & his twin sister born 1925. My grandpa took his wife & 4 kids to Greece in 1930 due to depression. They had farm land there. He came back to US, waited on tables & sent $. WWII broke. Didn’t see his family for 16 years. Sacrifice.
Obviously, he didn't give up even through hard times! We can't either! We wouldn't have made it to nearly 250 years if we gave up! We can do this! 👍
I do believe our ancestors guide us today. My grandpa escaped Tzarist Russia in 1914 leaving my grandma behind. WWI broke out followed by the Russian Revolution. Eight years later, he was able to bring Grandma to the US. And Surprise!! You have an 8 year old son! I fight because they did.
Go back to the civil war. Farmers got promised their farms would be protected by the southern politicians who caused the war. What did they do? Evict their families, sell the farms & sell cotton to the North. Bankers & politicians are just mobsters.
Sharpening sickles at Dad’s welding shop introduced me to overalls. Farmers around Archer, Nebraska. Strong people.
My great grandfather, similar story.
In the 1940’s and 50’s, my grandfather worked three jobs, 6 days a week. My mother only saw him in the evening, sleeping in his chair.
We should all know our ancestors stories including those of immigrants. Those stories must be retold so we know where we come from.
Gosh, JH. Such a moving post and such a wonderful photo. Your great-grandfather would be so proud. Keep that foot of yours on the pedal, for him and all of our families who gave it all and lost it all. We are their voices now. 💙
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That’s terrible.
Spot on. People need to remember this! Because this is what Trump and the “GOP GUARDIANS OF PEDOPHILES” have in store for us!
Amen, from a heathen.
Great photo .... sad story
And many of those ancestors were likely immigrants.
I watched Banks ruin farmers in NE in 1980s. Might sound like a conspiracy theory but I'm convinced 9/11 was designed to burn all the evidence demanded by a Congressional Committy Investigating Big Bank landgrab fraud. Winner; Monsanto/Frankincorn/ethanol Lousy gas/Highfructose cornsyrup > Diabetes
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Great pic. Lucky to have!
Wonderful photo
This is a picture of the Fathers of Confederation. The tall guy in fron of the middle window is my 2nd great uncle. I also come from many hardworking, sometimes very poor, farmers who lived very hard lives in the US and Canada. Most of us come from such people.
Oops - he's in front of the second window from the left.
Yet..he'll tell you in a hot minute it's the "lazy" blacks that caused all the ills visited upon him et al.. that's why we are where we are today..
An evil strategy wealthy thieves foist upon us all - to blame the others. We all suffer from their brain-washing. It comes to us from those who benefit their own interests at the cost of their own communities. We need to get past the blame game, work together, reclaim our country and its promise.
So many stories of loss in that period. It was so difficult for my grandfather.
Some things never change, alas!
Everything our ancestors created for us cannot be destroyed. We must strengthen our faith and protect everything they built.
That was my family. They formed their land.
Farmed.
The pen is mightier than almost anything if you have the law in your pocket.
Yes. "The fields are under lock and key but the sun and the rain come through." Leonard Cohen.
Remembering old times is the only thing you people can do today.
We've got the stop the endless conniving! Make a plan and show up on #LaborDay #DoYourPart to #SaveDemocracy
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Wow, what a powerful picture, Jack. That man is the true meaning of grit and guts. It is way past time for dumbasses to quit voting against their interests.
My great grandfather emigrated from Germany in the 1920s. He was a train conductor during WWII and after in Wisconsin. He mostly stopped talking during work due to his pronounced German accent. He loved America, sacrificed, and set the stage for future Americans.
not to be a dick but was he part of the dust bowl catastrophe partly caused by farmers? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
My grandfather was squeezed out by Boise Cascade, aka corporate logging. That blows having the family land sold right out from under though, that's just harsh.
Holy shit. Family resemblance.
I reminded my MAGA parents last week about my great grandmothers only speaking French. This was in the 70s, and my grandparents were first generation American. How little they remember at one time my mémé barely spoke English.
