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<blockquote data-quote="Blackhorse" data-source="post: 517341" data-attributes="member: 1365"><p>Welcome home. Another prodigal son. Pleased you found us again.</p><p></p><p></p><p>One of my uncles (my favorite) was a “carman” on the Great Northern most of his life. After he retired he continued to ride until his passing. </p><p></p><p>His wife, (least favorite aunt of six) was one of the girls (along with my mom) that grew up on “the farm”...an 80 acre dairy farm in Northern Minnesota. Their folks were first gen US immigrants from Norway. Eight total kids and QUITE a buncha characters. I had the one uncle that stayed on and ran the farm into his 90’s...was still buying cows almost to his last days. No “entitlement kids” in that family.</p><p></p><p>A little nostalgia going on here this morning, I guess. I think many of us here are grandkids of folks that came over from “the old country” to become family farmers somewhere. Their kids (our parents) were likely the generation that went off to WWII. Those two generations are the backbone that made this country. Were they special? Well, to us, certainly. But not in the greater scheme of things. It’s just that their values and the lives they lived - and those of all the others with similar stories - are the foundation and backbone of who we are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blackhorse, post: 517341, member: 1365"] Welcome home. Another prodigal son. Pleased you found us again. One of my uncles (my favorite) was a “carman” on the Great Northern most of his life. After he retired he continued to ride until his passing. His wife, (least favorite aunt of six) was one of the girls (along with my mom) that grew up on “the farm”...an 80 acre dairy farm in Northern Minnesota. Their folks were first gen US immigrants from Norway. Eight total kids and QUITE a buncha characters. I had the one uncle that stayed on and ran the farm into his 90’s...was still buying cows almost to his last days. No “entitlement kids” in that family. A little nostalgia going on here this morning, I guess. I think many of us here are grandkids of folks that came over from “the old country” to become family farmers somewhere. Their kids (our parents) were likely the generation that went off to WWII. Those two generations are the backbone that made this country. Were they special? Well, to us, certainly. But not in the greater scheme of things. It’s just that their values and the lives they lived - and those of all the others with similar stories - are the foundation and backbone of who we are. [/QUOTE]
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