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[@evilabelincoln3787]

My great grandfather was a bodyguard for mussolini. He ended up stealing a bunch of money from the Fascist party and running away to America shortly before the outbreak of the war. My family found out about this after bis death when his family he abandoned in Italy showed up to his funeral in America. They even brought the personal correspondence between he and mussolini

[@LilSebastian_]

Odd way off calling your great grandfather a thief and traitor to his country… I’m just kidding, but not really.

[@evilabelincoln3787]

@@LilSebastian_ a scumbags a scumbag

[@deangeloellis729]

That's one crazy life!

[@SynchronizorVideos]

@@LilSebastian_Thief & traitor to a facist government that was about to drag the country into the wrong side of a global war. Kinda softens things a little. Leaving the family behind wasn’t great, though.

[@slightlylessthanjewish]

The fuck did I just read, that’s awesome.

[@billwebb1320]

My grandfather left Pearl Harbor on the aircraft carrier Lexington the week before the Japanese attack. He transferred to Dutch Harbor before the Coral Sea battle. He only saw one Japanese plane during the war. His brother was a ball turret gunner on one of the first B17s shot down over Germany. Escaped through Spain and went to India as a B29 gunner.

[@brandonporter3866]

Both my Great Grandfathers from my mum’s side of the family served in WWI as a part of the British Royal Air Force (one was British, moved to Australia after the war, other was from Australia). Both served as observers as well as bombardiers when the time came for it. One of them became a teacher after the war while the other returned to Australia and continued to serve in the beginnings of the Royal Australian Air Force in 1921. He then went on to serve in a bomber as an observer and copilot during WWII, primarily flying missions over Germany. He was shot down over Germany twice but survived and escaped both times. Returned to Australia after the war and retired from the RAAF. Also had a grandfather serve in Vietnam as a member of the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME), ended up fixing the barrel of a Centurion tank that had the barrel hit RPG. That tank is sitting outside the Australian War Memorial

[@rossh2386]

grandfather came from italy at 8 years old then went back for the invasion of sicily in 43 and fought in every major battle in the italian campaign until the end of the war. never spoke a word of it but was the most kind man i ever met

[@jaw1489]

Is the Fat Electriction smaller than I expected? Or is that beer bottle bigger then expected? Lol

[@chiefkeef74]

Yes

[@edgeofthesouth]

Looks like a 32oz Modelo

[@jeremyronald]

The Fat Electrician is a Hobbit 😂

[@russellshomestead3947]

That’s a good old 40oz

[@frankgomz5069]

So Eli is a giant???

[@bighaas435]

On my dad's side, I have an ancestor that came from Berlin, Prussia in the 1860s and became a pretty famous police officer in Indianapolis

[@xEvilRaptorx]

Its so cool looking into family history. I found out im 3rd gen American on one side and linked back to the Mayflower [Samuel Fuller] on the other side

[@ShadowStrike28]

My mom's stepdad and the only real grandpa I ever had was 7th Infantry and an Italian from New York. One day while out messing around with my brothers and getting the gear ready to go fishing with him, we found a few interesting items shall we say? A Japanese looking sword (with what looked to be blood on the blade), a couple of different helmets, some uniform items, etc. Some these things may still exist in a family storage I'm not aware of. When I questioned him about the sword and a couple other edged weapons, he simply said "I'll tell you when you're older". He never did tell me. At his funeral, a group of well-dressed Italian looking men all stood off to one side, somewhat away from the rest of the family. I never did ask, but you can draw your own conclusions.

[@ianhall6614]

Both sides of my family were predominantly homesteaders and ranchers, starting in Minnesota and moving all the way through North Dakota, Montana, Washington and Oregon. I have one family member who was apart of the Rough Riders but didn’t go to Cuba. My Grandmas first husband was a Marine in Korea and was killed in Hell Fire Valley. She then married my grandfather who was a PBY and B24 pilot in WW2 and after. He watched the Bikini Atoll get nuked and was an honorary guest on the USS Nautilus. He piloted research planes through hurricanes after the war for the navy and was one of the last US planes to take off from China after the communists victory. I also have a relative who served in the Civil War and his name was George Washington Speed, I always thought that was the sickest name.

[@themidnightracer9937]

My family lineage is weird. Came over from Ireland in the 1840s. They got a farm in Tennesee. Then the civil war broke out a few years later. They fought with the South, but at the same time they were apart of the underground railroad, which is an odd take but a good one. After that it was just normal to an extent. My grandma, said you could still see the old slaves houses in the '50s, but by then they were dilapidated and falling in on themselves. By the early '60s my great uncle sold the farm, and now I assume its probalby a parking lot or an office building now.

[@jebbreeding4009]

My great x7 grandfather was a drummer boy in the French army during the French and Indian war. Legend is that when it was time to get back on the ship for France, he wanted to stay so he hid in a barrel until they left.

[@munchin40]

My Great-Grandfather was part of the Ruffriders chasing Pancho Vea thru the Spanish-American War. Went from horses to horsepower and bodybuilding while building parts of Cincinnati. His son became an Army Ranger during Korea and spent his time on a covert action team that spent their time bringing folks back over from the East. After he got out met up with his father on a jobsite and got into a fist fight. Service carried on in the family but nothing as fun.

[@ace4g64T]

Yesterday was truly amazing seeing yall at laugh out loud. I was absolutely nervous when yall greeted everyone waiting in line

[@basedchad6284]

My grandparents are Irish and Sicilian. We weren’t aware who they were involved with until their funerals when several men showed up in black suits. Apparently he was involved with the mafia and had taken a position in NYC in the 20’s. On the other side of my family I recently found out my long cousins where apart of the IRA and are actually documented fighting the British army.

[@VentsJansons]

I'm from Latvia, my great-great granddad fought for independence and was given a farm and some animals by the state and his son became one of the best collective farmers (due to Soviet occupation) in the whole union (10% of ALL sugar beets in the USSR from 1960-1989 were grown by him and the people working there) and for this he recieved two orders of Lenin and some other medals. He also has a wikipedia page (its in russian, but you can translate)

[@firebry23]

BRING THIS GUY BACK FOR MORE GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER STORIES!!!!

[@paulvamos7319]

😂 he should have TFE narrate it! ❤

[@hiheeledsneakers]

My 5x grandfather was Jesse Hughes. He was the anti-hero in WV. Stories of him sneaking out of forts while the Shawnee surrounded it, getting help and sneaking back in undetected. He vowed to end them all after watching his father and brother scalped. Chasing after a sweetheart kidnapped by Shawnee and finding bits n pieces of her on the trail. So many crazy stories and how the Shawnee considered him a great warrior. Also Jesse James, dna says Napoleon and Maria Theresa the ruler of 11 countries, The Holy Roman Empress and mother of Maria Antoinette.

[@HEAVYDON78]

I have a great grandfather that fought with the 24th then 76 ny infantry during the civil war. Fought in most of the major battles too including bull run, Gettysburg and wilderness. Injured at wilderness and brought to Andersonville prison. Survived that. Escaped after being left to die following transfer from prison to prison. Lived until 1926 died age 85 in Adams ny. Town near fort drum ny. Badass!

[@eianmerino190]

These are my mom’s parents. On my grandmothers side goes all the way back to George Washington’s mother. My grandfathers parents immigrated to the US from Ireland. On my dad’s side his family came from Scotland and Germany. Settled down in North Carolina, fought for the confederacy, still have relatives in the hills moonshining to this day.

[@robertstanley563]

I am a direct descendent of Lord Stanley the King of Mann, my Great Grandfather was Robert H Stanley’s, USN corpsman, awarded the MOH during the Boxer Rebellion. My Great Great Grandfather was General David S Stanley, who served with Grant and led Sherman’s charge into Atlanta during the Civil War. Military service is a tradition in my family!

[@johngustavson8433]

My Dads first ancestor who came to America was from France. The family story was that he deserted Napoleon III army. My Mother found he was discharged honorably around 1860. The army then gave him the choice to re enlist or go to Canada. He chose Canada and became a being a fur traper in the upper peninsula of Michigan. My Grandfather on my Moms side was in the 37th infantry Division in WW2 and came back with 2 Bronze Starts and 5 combat ribbons. I found that his division saw 592 days of combat, 3 most in ww2 from what I could find. Please let me know if that last part makes sense or not.

[@senorsiro3748]

My Paternal Grandfather was a minor figure in the old school conservation movement, being involved in the passage of laws protecting marine mammals. He routinely had all kinds of exotic animals at the house for short periods of time when my dad was a kid that people just gave him to find homes for because he happened to work for a nature museum.

[@andrewdemary3420]

My grandpa and his buddies invented those noises at crosswalks to help blind people... Also was in the Navy working on radar systems in WW2...

[@andrewdemary3420]

He was also good friends with Timothy Leary during the LSD Hippy movement later

[@jheff7016]

My great great great uncle is Merriweather Lewis from Lewis and Clark expedition.

[@Marrok48]

My great grandparents owned a farm in California in the 30s and weren’t rich but were well off because they were both from wealthy families. WWII rolls around and executive order 9066 is passed, all those of Japanese decent were put into American relocation camps which was a nice way to say huge ass prisons. All their property was seized and sold off (with the exception of a couple pairs of clothing.) my grandfather was born in one of those camps and when the war was over none of these families had money. My great grandfather started up a small lawncare business and my grandfather had a ton of stories of his own, but basically he worked as a kid all the way up until his teens when he bought a luxury car with all his savings. His sister sold the car when he was out working one day. He then decided to join the marines, was deployed to Vietnam, and when he came back became a police officer. Again a LOT more stories but that is for another time. Hope all those who read this enjoy the story of my family.

[@kentuckyace1068]

I had an ancestor that went to the Roanoke colony before they disappeared. That guy's cousin went to Jamestown

[@Nightbird6]

One of my Great Great Grandmothers was on The Trail of Tears.

[@jtreed3296]

I don't know how greats this would be, but one of my family members was the 1st governor of Missouri. When he was in the mounted militia, a certain private enlisted and joined his regiment. That private was Stephen F. Austin

[@user-jc7bg8hh1w]

My family came from Germany, my great grandfather fought in the Pacific during WW2. As a radio man and work at a telephone company after the war after a few years as a Sacramento police officer. Also had German family Settle in Texas 1800,1900s . New Braunfels/Gruene area still there to this day.

[@Hakaanu]

My earliest ancestor for my family name was a hessian mercenary fighting for the British during the revolution. After the war he stayed in NC and had 4 sons and that’s where my entire family came from. Both my grandfathers fought in ww2, one in the Atlantic and one in the pacific theatre. 3 out of 4 of my uncles were in Vietnam, one a marine, one a drafted grunt, and the third a door gunner. They had interesting lives.

[@LilFreedom76]

My Great x3 grandpa was one of the folks who signed New Mexico into a state

[@XxtacobusxX]

My Grandpa earned a Bronze Star and Silver star in WW2, served from mid 1943 to 1945 in the European theater, my Great Grandpa was a General in the Mexican Army before the revolution and later fought in the revolution.

[@XxtacobusxX]

Oh, and this one isn't a story of mine. but my friend is related to President Taft and even has the last name Taft and literally looks like a young version of him, but with a beard (aka, he looks like Nick) and even had his profile pic on facebook as the "Apple Pie" Taft newspaper cartoon.

[@RoKo-q2w]

My family came from Prussia back in the late 1800

[@jlw6030]

This guest is an absolute gem! You gotta bring him and his hippie hair back

[@DodyTD]

Great grandfather was on the USS Hammann during the battle of Midway. He was a machinist mate 3rd class petty officer. The story he told my grandmother is, he was on deck assisting in pumping water from the USS Yorktown when a torpedo explosion, that broke the ship in half, threw him 30ft into the air and into the water. The explosion had left shrapnel in both his legs but was able to make it to life raft. We assume he spend the rest of the war in the infirmary. The only thing we do know is the some of the shrapnel was never removed and remained in his legs until he passed away from cancer sometime in the 80s

[@somercet1]

Wow, your g-grandfather survived USS Hammann. Some officer or petty officer dropped the ball badly that day: I-9's periscope popped up so close to the Hammann that it had to reverse to get enough distance to fire the torpedo. I know they were working on repairing Yorktown, but jeez, did they think the Japs would send 2/3 of _Kidō Butai_ but no subs? Glad you GGD made it.

[@ryandikes3372]

My oldest descendent was actually noted for getting drunk, falling off the mayflower, and having to be rescued from the harbor! But, my great grandfather was the last mounted policemen in San Antonio. When my grandfather died, we found his old guns! We found both, his service revolver and his "throw down" revolver that legit had all identification ground off and the firing striker ground down so it couldn't accidentally be fired if the perp wasn't fully dead!

[@jakesavoie5439]

Fellow Minnesotan here. Love your guys content

[@lizardninja007]

My family goes way back to Mayflower days. I have Welsh nobility that showed up at some point - during the Revolutionary War, a girl in the family hid some famous Welsh spoons in a well so the British that were raiding villages wouldn't take them to melt down for ball bearings or whatever they used silver for back in the day. I also have another relative who was a furs trader along the Missouri River who helped stop people selling booze to Natives. At some point, someone in the family was really good friends with Ulysses S. Grant and we ended up with his camp chair (from that famous picture of the president) sitting in our basement. The first voice of Porky Pig was my great great uncle! All these great people were on my maternal side of the family. 😁 I found out during college that my paternal side had a hand in the intown Irish Mafia that started one of the largest riots in state history back in the early 1900s 🙃

[@jeffapplewhite5981]

My great grandfather was named Jefferson Davis Magee!

[@hmk4216]

That made me think, I have no journal, no social media and, I hate to have my picture taken.

[@brandong6003]

When my Great Uncle was in Germany working WW2, he was sitting in the corner near a barn door while the rest of his squad played poker. He told me he stood up to go join there game when a group of Germans busted the doors open, hiding all but the toes on his boots, they ended up gunning down his squad. I always asked him what the army was like, he only ever told me that it was hell.

[@BigDillis0321]

My family came here on the mayflower. They escaped the reformation in England, and were themselves descended from the Dalriada clan in Ireland. During the trip, John Alden(my grandfather) fell off the boat in the middle of the night and was only able to survive due to a loose rigging line trailing in the water behind the boat. After arriving here, they found themselves embroiled in basically every major historical event up until my time. Salem witch trials, the beginning of the Indian wars, literally every war this country has ever fought. French and Indian war and the revolution. My great great great grandfather was the commanding officer of the first Michigan Colored troops regiment to participate in battle, and is mentioned in many books about the red River campaign and the war in the Deep South in general. After the war, he was murdered in his home by local members of a certain hooded group, along with his wife and daughter. The name survived due to his eldest son who at the time was attending school at West Point. After graduating, he served in a fairly famous US army Calvary regiment, and had an illustrious and successful career, which culminated in him being KIA at a place called the little big horn. His only son also attended West Point, and upon graduating immediately started working on his career. He fought in the Spanish American war, in various other conflicts throughout the Carribean and would become a division level officer in the usmc just in time to serve in WW1. The story continues on from there, finding ourselves at Pearl Harbor, Luzon, Iwo Jima, Normandy, the eagles nest, Chosin, Ia Drang, Khe Sahn, Saigon, 911, Fallujah, and Baghdad. We have always had a habit of being in the wrong place at the right time. My grandfather spent the last 20 years of his life traveling, collecting, and documenting any proof of who we are and where we came from. He told us the story of our family every time we ever spent time with him. Now he’s gone, and I was the only one interested in his veritable library of books filled with folded pages, highlighted paragraphs, old pictures and stuff he printed out at the public library. He found the graves of our progenitors by getting on a plane and tooling around Britain, or hopping in his fucking corvette and driving around the country, from state to state. Taking pictures of them and compiling an organized story to pass onto us. Dude fought at khe sahn, got married, had a family, became one of the most sought after criminal defense lawyers in the country during the 1980’s, and taught all his grandsons how to drive antique sports cars before we learned how to drive a Honda…The most gangster shit he did was record and document the story of us and pass it down to me. Now it’s my turn.

[@infin8ee]

Wow what an amazing family history. Write a book , a screenplay something!

[@curt1803]

My great uncle was a paratrooper in WWII. He received a battlefield commission and on his first jump as an officer he was shot in the chest but survived. He missed the end of the war but ended up remaining in the Army and retired as a full bird colonel.

[@Hoogdoesstuff]

That’s wild, my great great grandparents probably knew the fat electricians family. They had a ranch and were gold miners near Chico.

[@DaveyFish1]

Dude Electrician was born about 30 minutes from where I live. Thats pretty cool

[@MrGamer4252]

My Family was approached by the State of Michigan when I was a kid because my Great great Grandfather was the youngest Calvary man in the Civil War he was 13 and Survived the war and was still alive to the point that my grandma has memories of meeting him

[@sodog44]

One of my ancestors was at Little Bighorn fighting against Custer.

[@theguywithnohope9076]

My great grand parents are part of the reason the creek tribe still exists in alabama. When the line for the trail of tears started walking they went the other way off into the woods. 😂

[@1NDYC3NT]

Nick is out here auditioning Burger King commercials

[@areisspartan]

All I really know about my family is that my grandpa on my dads side fought on the side of Batista against Castro's revolution, and that one of my great grandmothers was a full blooded native Cuban

[@ParkerWhite-pq8ys]

My family has two amazing superpowers the ability to debate really well about something stupid and to drive like your drunk and high without being either

[@loganbak1560]

My great uncle was working at the pentagon as a butter bar and just happened to end up in the same elevator as the JFK and Jackie. Jackie and John were so busy fighting they didn’t realize my great uncle was standing in the corner awkwardly.

[@williambosma8726]

Grandfather on my father’s side was born 1938 in the Netherlands. 3 years old when the Germans came through and lived through the war. Most vivid memory of his was Wehrmacht soldiers playing catch with their potato masher grenades in the front yard of their house. His family also harbored Jews and some Resistance fighters as well if I remember correctly, I interviewed him for a project in middle school but I can’t remember all the exact details off the top of my head.

[@troyt6864]

Had a relative in the whiskey rebellion lose and eye when a musketball hit the bark off a tree. The spliters had to be taking out with pair of pinchers which are used to remove horse shoes.

[@Destroyer-ld4fr]

My great (maybe one more great) uncle was a medal of Honor recipient during WWII, his platoon was ambushed by Germans, he was able to get his men to dig in and started sending runners and the Germans were bringing up reinforcements, all three were killed by snipers so, he crawled over 90 to a German sniper nest during this crawl 8 bazooka (I would maybe assume Panzerschreck rounds, but that's what his MoH citation says) and rifle fire which ripped his clothing. 10 yards away from the sniper nest he stood up and charged, he shot and killed two snipers point blank, killed a third who tried to bayonet him and killed with the butt of his rifle, the last one was killed by his platoon when they attempted to flee. He then ran into a German dugout where he was killed by machinegun fire. His sacrifice allowed a runner to get through and bring reinforcements saving his unit and defeating the Germans at that portion of Hamelin.

[@fourtyfivefudd]

I recently found out an old family member, many times great uncle or something probably (not sure how exactly he was related) during the late 20s, was a mobster in Buffalo, NY. Max Rybarczyk was his name, but he was known as “Max the Goose”. He was part of the “Blue Ribbon Gang”. He was captured after his boss and other members were arrested for murder after stealing a company’s payroll and planning to flee to Mexico with it. Max was executed by electric chair in Sing Sing prison. And many decades later, he was randomly exonerated but then New York governor Andrew Cuomo. Exonerating dead people as if it matters to them anymore, just to look good to the public and get support, without actually having to do any real work.

[@scarydude223]

My 21st Great-grandfather was given a coat of arms for his service to King Edward the 1st during the 1st Scottish War of Independence against John Balliol at the sieges of Berwick and Dunbar. He was also made the Lord of Podenhughe and the Baron of Coldingham.

[@Redbird1504]

My grandad was in the Dixie mafia. Plenty of stories. Got indicted by the feds one time but gave em a brief case and the indictment was dropped

[@Obsidian316]

My great uncle was a Swedish sailor and in 1904 he was ship wreaked on Papa New Guinea and was found by the local tribe (many people say they were cannibals but they weren’t) long story short he married the chiefs daughter, and now his granddaughter is a princess of the tribe. I met her once she is a lovely lady

[@revpembroke3082]

My funniest family history story is that my mother found some geneoalogical website that traced our family back to Zeus. Apparently, some rich guy claimed descent from a noble, who claimed descent from a Roman Emperor, who claimed descent from Zeus. And the site tracked all that

[@heartlessvulture885]

my great grandfather, who is currently still alive and 88 or around that, was a chemical engineer and has multiple scholarships named after him in the area.

[@BugsISKing]

My family originated in the town of applegarth in southern Scotland. We migrated from there into England, and then 14 years after the mayflower landed in north America, we came to north america.

[@hardcorehobbies3809]

I haven’t heard a word yet and already know it’s epic!

[@santiagoarena3910]

My second great-grandfather came from Italy to here (Uruguay) and ended up being one of the biggest politicians of the time, becoming a senator and legislator (thrice), president of the Chamber of Representatives, member of the National Counsil of Administration and even convinced the president to allow women to vote, and in doing so, Uruguay became the first country in the Americas (and one of the first in the world) to grant women fully equal civil rights and universal suffrage in 1917. He was also friends with the president.

[@kylevphillips]

Eli is the one guy that every podcast has that can't let someone else just talk

[@joshuaturcotte6724]

My family is prity wide gapped with ages. And we are crazy so it took little effort to track us down to the late 1870s. My family watched the age of Musket lines change to conflict in WW2. Great, Great, gramps served and was knighted in France, was married and his sons were offered to move to Canada, from there Great Gramps further moved due to some type of civil unrest to America, enlisted in WW1 for citizenship and was a merchant marine ordered to enguage and fend off submarines with what small arms were available (small arms such as handguns mainly). Following this my grandfather was born in The Great Depression. Gramps and his 13 siblings got fed up with each other and signed up for WW2 willingly. We dont know much of his siblings even to this day, however he himself had a prity horrible time fighting threw ww2, he fought Pacific 1942, his first taste of action was landing on the newly captured Henderson Field landing strip just before Taskforce E left and Japan gained landings and air superiority. My Gramps was not given a MOS directly as his letters to my great gramps stated (He basically wasnt told till after he returned for reasons later stated), they trained him for signaling on ships, navigation, gunnery with small arms, mounted 30s, and 50s before shoving him in a B25 and sent him to land at the airfield. He saw most of the enguagements (Receiving 3 broken noses in CQC) till December 1942 where a pilot came in off set and slapped the wingtip against a rack of 250s and basically killed 3 and wounded 8, my gramps was launched airborn 300 feet and barrily survived pavement impact with most bones shattered, luckily the docs got to him and he was in hospital and the put him back together. He was back in the field for the Island Hop Campaign to be in full swing on the assault, durring this time he was trained bombedier and mainly operated the rear .50 cal Brownings to down aircraft. He himself would be shot down over the Pacific 4 times, average wait in shark infested waters 14 hours. Durring downtime of aircraft being repaired (Cause swiss cheese planes arnt that aero dynamic) he would often get taken to do off mission stuff, such as photographing civilian casualties in the Pacific which haunted him forever as he went forward. He was selected for being a atomic bomb bombardier and got a photo with the plane but was turned down for another bombardier. He would be taken state-side to train gunners for possible threats in the future. He continued to do this till a issue between the police in Japan and U.S. Marines started causing trouble, My gramps and several other soldiers were sent to handle the situation leading to better relations and that took about a year or two and everything was improving. Korea hit and they took the forces they had available in Japan and sent them as rapid response with what little small arms they could to stem the tide of the North Korean Advance (No grenades, AT weapons, or really any medical supplies, little ammunition, mostly bolt rifles and some B.A.R.s were ready so that's all that was sent), ordered to stop the enemy suspected 2000 tank coulomb and 20,000 soldier force with there measly 2,000 men. A fighting retreat would take place seeing the force of combat strength cut in half in a week, Gramps and many were wounded but kept fighting anyways. Reinforcements was 25 chaffee tanks and 20 mortars with plenty of basic ammunition (Enemy tank force comprised of Russian T-34-85M series tanks), they held out another week, this time they caused some panic due to having a small contingent of tanks allowing the line to hold however losing all 25 chaffees by the end of the week. Reinforcements arrive propperly and start creating a hold (Shermans, Pershings, AT weapons, full squads, planes, and the works, even allied countries came in all in droves), everyone was given to there properly expected units and treated, he served till the last 5 months of the conflict where he was forced into an engagement with a squad of North Korean combatants who were trying to set up a Russian DSSHK and a few rounds turned his frontal part of leg bone to dust, luckily the squad won the argument with my gramps actually accidentally getting the better of them. getting a titanium implant for the bone replacement my gramps was recovered enough and sent back, a high end officer saw him and noted his active notations and decided to give my gramps a flight home in a twin seater jet. Of which the officer noted he never saw a fighters capability and decided to do a lot of tricks, which made my gramps sick as hell. He trained gunners for future conflict how to aim for a bit longer before retiring (The same gunners would also be training further gunners for Vietnam) and switching to a driver for people and then a truck driver for 30 years. My father and I sadly are too ill (We believe it was karma from the above bullshit list, which ironically is a shortened list, to be fair) to serve conflict, pops suffered heart problems and I suffer from lung problems. We both have friends that served and we support veterans as often as we can when we can. For all of the Veterans and active service members in Unsubscribe Podcast, I hope your doing well and Thank you for your service!

[@MrJinglejanglejingle]

Grandfather on my dad's side was a Marine that mostly spent his time in the backlines, but he did participate in Iwo Jima. Became the first K-9 officer in his local area of Lockeford, CA. Grandfather on my mom's side was a Police Officer and Rancher for most of his life... After that, I don't really have a damned thing.

[@kitsunedude1]

My great great grandfather was Henry Albright. I have a direct lineage to the Albright rifle company. Was adopted at birth and recently learned from my biological family

[@Ben_not_10]

One of my great great uncles on my dad side was partially responsible for putting Colonel Darby in command of the 1st Ranger Battalion in WWII. Major General Russel P. Hartle was in command of the 34th Infantry regiment when they deployed to Iceland and latter England in January 1942. After General Truscott called for the formation of a Ranger Battalion, General Hartle insisted that if the volunteers would be pulled from his command, he would choose the commander. Colonel Darby was I believe his Aid. Other than that most of my family history is rather dull unless you have involvement or knowledge of the citrus industry in central Florida during the 50s-60s

[@conqueringflower7466]

My grandfather was stationed at Pearl Harbor and saw the planes fly over. After the attacks they sent him and others to patrol around the island, because nobody knew yet if the Japanese had landed troops or what was goin on. They gave them guns, but they didn't have any bullets. He vivedly remembered hearing noises in the bushes and being terrified of what turned out to be a white faced cow. We had another ancestor who went west with Daniel Boone. Many who served in the American Revolution. One who came over on the coffin ships to Canada during the Potato Famine.

[@kristydickens1283]

My grandfather was really into family history so I know quite a lot. The first member of my mom's family came to America from England as a stowaway on a ship. Apparently he hid a a barrel. I believe this was pre Revolutionary War. The second is that Daniel Boone's sister Sarah, married into my mom's family. It was quite the scandal since the Boone family were Quakers, but my ancestors were not. Their father, Squire Boone was "read out of meeting" (kicked out of the church) after one of his sons also married out of the faith. More recently my great uncle was a tail gunner a Flying Fortress called the Vagabond King. He was KIA somewhere over Europe. Since my dad was named for him, when he became a Huey pilot in Vietnam, he believed that was bad luck and that he would likely also be KIA. This belief was reinforced when he visited Pearl Harbor on R and R and found his name (first middle and last) on the memorial above the USS Arizona. He did get shot down 3 times, but thankfully he made it home. He forbade any of his 4 kids to name any grandchildren after him believing that he had used up all the luck attached to his name.

[@aaronbarnhill3548]

My great granddad was p.t Barnum

[@timvosberg3315]

Can we get a Fat video of Jack's ancestry????? Please!!!!! It sounds so promising

[@HomicideJack187]

My great uncle Tommy was a B-17 bombadier during WW2. Somehow, some way, he acquired some of Hitler's personal silverware (rumored that he traded a bunch of pilfered officers' Lugers for it), and as far as I know it's still on display in the museum in Huntsville, Alabama. I got to see it when my parents took me down there in like 2006/07. There's a lot more family history than that, but one of the things I think is more interesting.

[@Vikinguts]

This reminds me of something my mom told me so my great grandfather on my mom side apparently served in World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam. We don’t know where he was stationed and I’d have to ask my great uncle about him, but that’s basically all I know about is that he’s a badass.

[@BSUPERSABRE]

My Grandfather guarded the people who broke into Watergate and had a few phone calls with Nixon. He also guarded Charles Manson and has letter from him.

[@tommyp4274]

Both my mom and dad’s family are native Americans, so good reliable records are impossible to find before the 1920s. But my grandpa on my moms side fought in WWII (Europe ‘44-‘45) & korea in the army. His brother my great uncle, was KIA in ‘45 philippines. My grandpa on my dads side was Air Force in the early 50s. And a few of my uncles were in the Marine Corps (1 infantry, 1 F4 Phantom mechanic), Navy, and Air Force (kicked out). Nothing to note other than my dad and his 5 brothers probably got kicked almost every bar in my hometown in the 80s.

[@frumpyamerican9236]

Family history is amazing and I often think as most others do, what kind of legacy am I going to leave behind? General Patton was my Grandfathers cousin. I had an ancestor beheaded in the town square of Glasgow for stating that Jesus Christ was the head of the church. Larry Bird is my 3rd cousin, my grandmother used to babysit him. A lot of amazing people in the line, and a rich history to live up to and improve on, as we all should.

[@frederickknapp5340]

My great great grandfather came to the US in 1869 from Germany. My great grandfather was born on the trip over. Wild part, my great great grandfather was married to his 2nd wife, she died after getting to the US and he Married his step daughter.

[@loganwatts1607]

My male ancestor hid in a tree to defect from the British army during the Revolution war. Married a Mohawk Indian girl. Had lots of kids. Some moves south and were slave owners and my direct ancestors were a military family. Great grandpa in the Army during post WW1 era and my grandfather in the Airforce during Vietnam.

[@jacobrodriguez8659]

My grandfather was in the army for ww2 and during the occupation he was at a refugee camp. One refugee would act like he wanted to jump off the top of the building they were quartered in every day. So one day my grandfather went up there a attempted to Chase the refugee off the building with his m1 garand and bayonet.

[@jrod4717]

I was able to look up family members at a civil war museum who served with the wisconsin regiments. 2 names came up. The one guy was 22 years old and died of "cronic diarrhea" one week before he would have been at Antietam. I dont know whats worse. Dying before seeing combat at 22 years old or having "diarrhea" as a cause of death.

[@djdenhart6444]

My mom did a family tree when I was young. Found out that I'm related to the smothers brothers, Daniel Boone and Saint Patrick. Kinda crazy!

[@collinfreese2987]

My great-great-great grandfather was a D&S recruit in H co 36th Illinois Infantry during the civil war. He served for 1 year before being mustered out. We got 50 acres in southern Illinois and a large house after the war from the rich guy who's son he replaced in the draft.

[@stevil583]

I just recently found out one of my distant relatives served under Franz Ferdinand.

[@iowawaterlight]

My great grandparents on my dads side left Germany to start a life in san Fransisco and somehow the ship got lost in sea and they ended up in Mexico because the ship was so damaged it couldn't complete the trip and they decided to stay there. On my mom's side my grandfather was a P-38 pilot during WW2 he flew reconnaissance missions. After the war he became a boxing golden gloves champ, and flew crop dusters. My mom still has his leather skull cap.

[@northwestgaming4049]

My family moved to roundup montana sometime before 1908 (great great great great grandfather showed up in hamburg Germany 1880 then his son was born 1908). Ran a ranch until a drought hit the area and everyone was forced to move to Missoula. Most of my family ends up leaving for military service but comes back home. My uncle was only one I know of who stayed and was a smoke jumper/ jump instructor just another fun fact.

[@marcusolsson1316]

My fathers adoptive father was a cook on a ship in like the 60's and 70's and has written a unpublished memoir about some of his stories. Once he got left behind in France, became a victim of a prostitution and robbery operation where he fell in love with one of the hookers who was being essentially held captive by the people running the operation, he the helped the local police shut the operation down with the help of some other swedes who lived in france and the local swedish conculate. After it all was over grandpa had to board a new ship to catch up with the one he served on and the french woman left to start her life over.

[@benvacco8997]

It’s an old family legend from my fathers side that some of my ancestors came over on the mayflower. I have no idea if that’s true but it would be pretty neat.

[@vikinggunsmith]

My great great grandfather (or maybe uncle, family history on this is a bit fuzzy) was one of the leaders during the Easter rebellion in Ireland. He was the last of them to be executed by firing squad, he was strapped to a box and shot. His death caused such an outrage with the Irish people that the Irish citizen army evolved into the IRA. There was songs written about him and even a train station named after him.

[@hansofkrieg8022]

My one great grandfather on my mothers side fought in the 2nd Anglo-Boer war under Del la Rey and one on my dads side was taken prisoners near Greece when the ship he served on was sunk during WW2

[@colincopland3665]

1:55 God bless Eli for not having a clue that the Army of the Potomac (0:15) was the primary field army of the Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War.

[@silentgate1446]

My family came from Scandinavia sometime during the dark ages, then moved to England, then moved to Ireland sometime after that. Then snuck through the back door of the U.S.A ( Canada ) and ended up in Vermont. Then slowly moved down to Massachusetts, where my grandfather Samuel Wardwell was accused of being a Witch. He was the very last one to be executed during the Salem witch trials. My family dispersed after that, scattering into the four winds because of that accusation. My family moved one state down where I was eventually born

[@sanddoom2089]

I wish I knew more of my family’s past. My mom knows a lot because she ate lunch with my grandma for 35 years until she passed away 2013. The only story I wish I knew more of is that my great grandfather on my dad’s side fought in WW1 and was one of those lucky few that survived a muster gas attack without his mask. All I know is he was on a bridge or crossing of some kind and got stuck there when the gas attack was launched. It reduced his lungs to the capacity of a 75 year old man, despite being in his early twenties

[@thesaiyanking85]

My grandpa on my mom's side was the only one trustworthy enough to take care of money for the bank because he wasn't connected to the mob in any way

[@kidf22]

Funny you're talking about General Lee....one side of my family is related to him along with numerous other Confederate commanders. On the other side, I have a relation to the Wright Brothers (not direct as both were lifelong bachelors). It's funny because one of my parents was born in the deep south and the other the far north. I'm sure there's a good joke in there somewhere about the Civil War or something but I'm coming up blank so I'll just leave it for someone else to give it a shot.

[@michaelritzen8138]

My grandma lived in a "red" neigborhood (communist/socialist mining community) in the Netherlands, in the same city I grew up in, during the second world war. This is about a 15 minute drive from the German border and my greatgrandfather was working in a German factory. They hid weapons, jews and shot-down pilots, so that Dutch resistance groups could pick them up, in the entire neighborhood and my greatgrandparents were part of that group. The collaborators knew who was working against the Germans, but they were so afraid of what might happen to themselves or their family, they never spoke up about it to the Nazis.

[@falomakgale7328]

My grandma's house was one of many in SOWETO {South Western Township} west of Johannesburg that were used as part of the "secret" meeting locations for some Anti Apartheid meetings. Mandela came around a couple of times after his release, great man.

[@theronraam23]

2 of my fathers ancestors were involved in the boston tea party.

[@jacobpunke1269]

My great-great-grandparents 'immigrated' to the US by stowing away on ships from Europe after the Great War. They settled in Iowa and became farmers. My Grandfather on my mom's side was working on the farm when the Second World War dragged America into the conflict. There was an Army Sergeant that visited the farm to make sure that draft doggers weren't hiding on the farm. This Sergeant told my grandfather that if he ever left the farm, he would grab him up and send him to boot camp. My grandfather never left the farm, not even to go into town to get seed. His dad eventually told him that the Sergeant meant if he left the farm and stopped working there. My father's dad was in Korea. One day one of his unit buddies wasn't feeling good. He asked my grandfather to go out on the helicopter run in his place and gave my grandfather 20 dollars as an incentive. As the buddy went to the infirmary station to get checked out, my grandfather went to the post station and mailed the $20 back home to Iowa. Later that day, the helicopter crashed and all souls were lost. As the car of the officers and chaplin were pulling into the drive to notify my grandmother of her husband's passing, she was checking the mail, and the envelope with the $20 in it had just arrived. At least that is what I was told, none of this can really be proven.

[@wildernessexplorer4017]

I looked into the Church of Latter Day Saints and in their records I am supposed to be related to Marcus Arelius, Constantine, Alfred the Great, and Charles Dargrosa

[@Charlie1993ohio]

We did a deep dive in high school and found out 2 poeple in my home room were related to historical figures.... a girl in my class was related to the FIRST first lady and then told me I was related to John Wilkes Booth . People turned on me as well as my teacher which is wild to me .