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       'Murica
       By: Corbantis Date: September 25, 2014, 2:06 pm
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       Re: 'Murica
       By: jarhead2097 Date: September 25, 2014, 2:08 pm
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       i WANT 2!
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       Re: 'Murica
       By: Corbantis Date: September 25, 2014, 2:09 pm
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       Re: 'Murica
       By: TKE919 Date: September 25, 2014, 2:10 pm
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       Needs a gun in one hand and about 50-80 more pounds on him and
       then, yes -- he'd be perfectly 'Murican.
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       Re: 'Murica
       By: Corbantis Date: September 25, 2014, 2:34 pm
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       Re: 'Murica
       By: StatesR Date: September 25, 2014, 5:44 pm
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       Corbantis, Love the post with Washington crossing the Delaware.
       I have always liked it because it was that fateful night that my
       Y chromosome started on its journey to be an American. As the
       story goes, my 4th Great Grandfather Caspar Goebbel (last name
       later changed) was a Hessian mercenary, and was captured by
       Washington's men that night. Some of the POW's went to work for
       the Quakers in Pennsylvania and most eventually stayed after the
       war. Others chose to fight for the Colonial Army on promise of
       future land parcels. My Great Grandfather fought under General
       Nathaniel Green in the South. Was captured by the Brits in a
       battle later on, and escaped because he preferred the Colonials.
       There is a crossing at Jon's Island, SC called Cable Crossing,
       and there is actually a sign showing it. He later settled in the
       Smoky Mountains in TN married to a woman that was the daughter
       of a North Carolina British Loyalist. Actually his wife and her
       mother moved with Caspar to TN because she supported the
       Colonials. But they did make the trip to NC twice a year to
       bring the old man supplies. The story goes a lot longer, but I
       have already got long winded enough. I just thought if there was
       a group of people to appreciate it, this would be it. Its just
       cool to know that the day the US Constitution was ratified, and
       it said that citizens were to be those that were natural born
       and those that reside within the borders upon ratification. That
       my peeps were already in Murica'.
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       Re: 'Murica
       By: Corbantis Date: September 25, 2014, 7:34 pm
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       [quote author=StatesR link=topic=901.msg11396#msg11396
       date=1411685067]
       Corbantis, Love the post with Washington crossing the Delaware.
       I have always liked it because it was that fateful night that my
       Y chromosome started on its journey to be an American. As the
       story goes, my 4th Great Grandfather Caspar Goebbel (last name
       later changed) was a Hessian mercenary, and was captured by
       Washington's men that night. Some of the POW's went to work for
       the Quakers in Pennsylvania and most eventually stayed after the
       war. Others chose to fight for the Colonial Army on promise of
       future land parcels. My Great Grandfather fought under General
       Nathaniel Green in the South. Was captured by the Brits in a
       battle later on, and escaped because he preferred the Colonials.
       There is a crossing at Jon's Island, SC called Cable Crossing,
       and there is actually a sign showing it. He later settled in the
       Smoky Mountains in TN married to a woman that was the daughter
       of a North Carolina British Loyalist. Actually his wife and her
       mother moved with Caspar to TN because she supported the
       Colonials. But they did make the trip to NC twice a year to
       bring the old man supplies. The story goes a lot longer, but I
       have already got long winded enough. I just thought if there was
       a group of people to appreciate it, this would be it. Its just
       cool to know that the day the US Constitution was ratified, and
       it said that citizens were to be those that were natural born
       and those that reside within the borders upon ratification. That
       my peeps were already in Murica'.
       [/quote]
       That's awesome! My forebears came from England and settled in
       Maryland in the late 1640s. Before moving into Virginia and then
       North Carolina. My Dad's side came in from Virginia into North
       Carolina around the mid 1700s
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