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"I've met a lot of Asian grandfathers, a lot of Hispanic grandfathers, a lot of black grandfathers," she said.
But others are unaware that their grandfathers or great-grandfathers were involved in two world wars.
In the wake of the initial discoveries at Teouma, Alben replied, he explained to his villagers that there was nothing surprising in the fact that the grandfathers of grandfathers of grandfathers had once come from someplace else.
That connection with the past is especially important when many Americans are flirting with the poisonous ideas our grandfathers and great-grandfathers battled in Europe and the Pacific.
"I always think of people all around this country whose relations took part in D-Day and will be thinking so much about their grandfathers, fathers or great-grandfathers," he said.
But my grandfathers fought for our country for that symbol.
Both grandfathers were members of the National Academy of Design.
"[My] grandmothers name in my grandfathers handwriting," the caption reads.
Both of their grandfathers knew their way around the sport.
"These parliaments were built for old white grandfathers," said Trudeau.
They are our brothers, our uncles, our daddies, our grandfathers.
Did their moral obtuseness come from amoral fathers or grandfathers?
One of Rivera's grandfathers was the bullfighting legend Antonio Ordóñez Araujo.
Among them were his mother, sister, grandmother, grandfathers, aunts and uncles.
"We were both teenagers when our grandfathers died," Mr. Rower said.
After the Teouma find, the national post issued a special commemorative stamp — "Lapita People: The Pacific's Original Explorers" — with an artist's recreation of a colonial Eden that showed men and women, drawn black to resemble the ni-Vanuatu, cleaning fish and making camp, and Bedford printed pamphlets for schoolchildren that explained that the Lapita were the grandfathers of grandfathers of grandfathers.
Their grandfathers, who both served in the Army, are proud as peacocks.
"They were our friends from our great, great grandfathers," says Mr Souleymane.
"We were both interested in exploring our grandfathers' legacies," Mr. Rower said.
In Karachi, Hassan and Sara had grown up in their grandfathers' houses.
"People had come here with their grandfathers, with their fathers," recalled Clayton.
A lot of corrections officers' parents, their fathers worked there, their grandfathers.
Because we love our grandmothers, our grandfathers, our older moms and dads.
Many of the Blackjewel miners' fathers and grandfathers were involved in them.
Because those coal miners and their grandfathers , they dug that coal out.
Lyla means 'beautiful island girl,' and James is after both of her grandfathers.
They told me their names, their local government area (and) their grandfathers' names.
In her case, the tattoo was a memorial to both of her grandfathers.
Her parents ran a seafood shack on the beach; her grandfathers were fishermen.
Both of my grandfathers served in the Army during the Korean War era.
" He continues, "Basically, it's about a character called Grandude, who represents grandfathers everywhere.
Military service ran in his family, with his father and grandfathers having served.
"Both of my grandfathers immigrated from Russia after World War I," he writes.
Dead "gooks" who are in reality mothers, daughters, sons, brothers, fathers, and grandfathers.
Hawk: Supposedly, our grand-grandfathers, they mobilized the very first wheel in history.
Both of my parents are lawyers and both of my grandfathers are lawyers.
"I demand the land of my grandfathers," she said at one recent protest.
One of his great-grandfathers had escaped slavery to join the Union Army.
Most are owner-operator small businesses, fishing the same oceans as their grandfathers.
The protesters, sometimes joined by grandfathers and antiwar veterans, never reached platoon size.
Fishermen will tell you, it's not the ocean their fathers and grandfathers knew.
My great-grandfathers were German officers in World War I and successful professionally.
"Thank you for coming here, for Poland, and for bringing the white and red (Polish) flag which saw our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers spill their blood," President Andrzej Duda, a PiS ally, said at the start of the march.
They have stuff that was so old that the grandfathers used to fly it.
Nine grandfathers ago, on her father's side, Thomas Limehouse signed the Declaration of Charleston.
The concept of privacy applied to the world of our grandfathers, not our world.
At the time of our grandfathers, Brazil was coffee, and coffee was the blacks.
I no longer felt the urge to ask him about his grandfathers and grandmothers.
My parents head to bed, and I start wrapping my father's and my grandfathers' gifts.
I have, for example, just two precious photographs each of my English and Italian grandfathers.
Political strategy in the Trump era is apparently two grandfathers threatening to fight each other.
At that time our fathers and grandfathers were silent but we will not be silent!
A substantially larger number of men, from young fathers to grandfathers, were in the streets.
My grandfathers arranged the meeting in the north Kolkata house where my mother was raised.
She said her grandfathers did not speak about their experiences until late in their life.
We discuss what we're going to do for Father's Day and what to get my grandfathers.
This Fourth of July I am reminded of both my grandfathers' service to this great nation.
His grandfathers and cousins have served, and he hopes to be part of that family legacy.
The video is dedicated to both of McCreery's grandfathers, and directed and produced by Jeff Ray.
I'm very, very proud that we've been able to save the building and my grandfathers' legacy.
She named her son Kavi, which means poet, because two of his great-grandfathers were poets.
I fought them with the most persuasive instruments at hand, the way both my grandfathers did.
Some hunters carry knives fashioned years ago by grandfathers who etched squiggly designs across the blades.
Apparently, this is Courbet, I guess him and this guy Manet are the grandfathers of modernism.
They said the hot rocks represented grandfathers, and that their spirits had arrived to make her well.
In fact, Jamala's great-grandfather, like many great-grandfathers, was away fighting in the Soviet Red Army.
Their family backgrounds are similar — while their grandfathers were coal miners, their parents established fortunes in business.
Watching Dr. Huxtable, who embodied so many of the fathers, grandfathers and uncles we knew, was electrifying.
In 1884, New York City lawyer Charles E. Rushmore asked his guide what Six Grandfathers was called.
In truth, it's not my place as an American to say what should happen to Six Grandfathers.
O'Rourke wrote that one of his paternal great-great-great grandfathers owned two women in the 1850s.
The men identified themselves as fathers and grandfathers, with daughters and granddaughters, and they began to cry.
One of his grandfathers was publisher of The Troy Times, and his father was the advertising director.
Many began hunting when they were young boys, heading to the bush with uncles, fathers and grandfathers.
Colleen Hanabusa discussed two of her grandfathers' detention to the Interior Secretary during a hearing on Thursday.
Yet we still did not touch upon the destruction of the Ottoman Armenians, Ara's grandfathers and grandmothers.
House GOP aides point to the provision that grandfathers existing enrollees and allows them to keep their coverage.
Neither of her grandfathers had life insurance, and it was a struggle for her family to get by.
There are babies in strollers, 20-something norm-core couples from Burbank, and barely sentient grandfathers in wheelchairs.
He expresses himself much like our grandfathers did, before the self-censorship imposed by political correctness took over.
He was descended on both sides from pre-Revolution Scottish settlers, and both his grandfathers were Confederate soldiers.
Here's what I knew about my grandfathers: They were both pirs, spiritual guides of Sufi orders in Kashmir.
Not surprisingly, some have followed a career path inspired, at least in part, by their grandfathers' service in WWII.
It is not that technically difficult to hack the email of a couple of grandfathers and release the contents.
Indigenous dads shared their own feelings about parenthood on Twitter, as others paid tribute to their fathers and grandfathers.
"He's the grandfather of all grandfathers," Barrymore lovingly told the crowd at the Time Center Stage on Tuesday afternoon.
Just going back to your family briefly, you said your grandfathers were Democrats…I would say they voted Democrat.
The new generation define themselves by their difference from their "fathers" as well as some similarities with their "grandfathers".
"Many residents still tell me stories about their grandfathers who worked for Edison," said Joseph Fagan, a local historian.
"I wanted to name it 'maah daah hey' because grandfathers are always supposed to be around," Mr. Baker said.
Second of the painter's three sons, Jean was born when his father was 54, the age of many grandfathers.
"You had farmers, coal miners, 75-year-old grandfathers selling everything they had," she says on this week's podcast.
His grandfathers, he realized, gave him the greatest gift of all: the ability to carry on in their absence.
All day long they would be underground, digging out coal as their fathers and often their grandfathers had done.
The size didn't make an impression—Spielberg was no longer, shorter, wider, or narrower than most doughy Jewish grandfathers.
Muscle worshippers, fetishists, wrestlers, mixed martial artists, marathon runners, grandfathers, and submissives have all had their asses kicked here.
Most men in my social circle  –  friends, cousins, uncles, and grandfathers – said they've been in groups like these for years.
His mother is Presbyterian, his wife is a Catholic of Syrian origin and one of his grandfathers was a Hindu.
But then, they start to think about family get-togethers, reunions, backyard barbecues, tailgate parties, their grandfathers — just good times.
We see one another as family, as brothers, as sisters, as aunts, as uncles, as fathers, as mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers.
Steele's family was middle class, but its roots were blue-collar: one of Steele's grandfathers was a Welsh coal miner.
Though both of his grandfathers were, in his words, "very quiet, like shadows," his grandmothers were strong, eccentric and flamboyant.
Despite the show's considerable shortcomings, they are really the grandfathers of the Super Bowl halftime show as we know it.
The well celebration is an old tradition told by grandfathers and grandmothers, forgotten for a generation but now lived again.
Both grandfathers worked in PR, and her father, Paul, was the NFL's executive vice president for communications and public relations.
And with faster boats, advanced GPS and side-scan sonar, today's private anglers are far more lethal than their grandfathers.
"One stripper in a hotel suite with a pole or something—that's like your fathers' or grandfathers' bachelor party," he said.
The rule grandfathers in existing accounts that may be conflicted, requiring only a brief notification to clients of the new rule.
San Nicolas is the descendant of several prominent Guam politicians — both his grandfathers were local legislators, as was his great-grandfather.
" Mr. Mutchnick added that he hoped that the show's pre-existing fan base, "grandfathers us in to a lot of forgiveness.
You see, your son is an oppressor and is being forced to pay for the sins of his father and grandfathers.
"I used to be offered people's fathers — now it's grandfathers, if you're not careful," Mr. Palin said, more amused than annoyed.
It was from the town of Thetford, just a few miles north, that one of Mr. Fowle's great-grandfathers, the Rev.
She said that one of her grandfathers had been Jewish — and that this link qualified the whole family for Israeli passports.
My uncle played and both my grandfathers played, and a lot of people in my family played, but they all had jobs.
Unless there is a strong reason to change, they are inclined to follow the same methods as their fathers and grandfathers did.
"I come from a family of military veterans with my father, both grandfathers, many uncles and cousins all serving," one employee says.
Many, mainly young men, are not allowed in, so the burden falls on grandmothers and grandfathers to put a child at ease.
The policy grandfathers in currently serving troops who have already come out, meaning they can continue serving openly and receiving medical care.
Because his administration recognized that these guys need to retrain for a completely different economy than their grandfathers and fathers had inhabited.
Both my grandfathers fought in wars under the current flag, so I wasn't convinced entirely that we should have a new flag.
Generations of sandhogs, the workers who blast the rock to form the tunnel, have taken up the work begun by their grandfathers.
Jacobson, labeled a "bolter" for rising so rapidly in the ranks, counts rugby players among his brothers, his father and his grandfathers.
When she was growing up in Alabama, people still talked about their grandfathers, fathers and brothers who had died of bad blood.
In his speech this week, Mr. Cuomo pointed out that "our grandfathers" built the transit system New Yorkers take for granted today.
In interviews with other news organizations, his mother was described as devastated and one of his grandfathers said the family was heartbroken.
The faces of grandfathers and preschoolers all point toward the same revolving doors that separate the tent from the arbiters of legal status.
During the moderated event, the two former presidents and proud grandfathers jokingly tried to one-up each other over who has smarter grandchildren.
Relatives of the dead men gathered at the gates of the monument on Monday, holding old black-and-white photographs of their grandfathers.
Behind it all is the racism of their grandfathers, who hanged Confederate flags on statehouses and perhaps in a few cases, hanged people.
Hanabusa had shared a story about her grandfathers' detention in the internment camps and asked Zinke about funding to maintain the historic sites.
At 212, he is old enough to have coached fellow grandfathers, yet can still connect with players raised with smartphones and social media.
A Carnegie scholarship to medical school was the lifeline that enabled one of his grandfathers to escape his Glasgow tenement and get on.
Thomas Carnegie, considered the better-looking and more amiable younger brother of the industrialist Andrew Carnegie, was one of his great-great-grandfathers.
It helps that while the galleries are friendly competitors, the two heirs who control the artists' estates are, like their grandfathers, purely friends.
Never in my life have I witnessed a man in my family cry—not my grandfathers, not my father, and not my older brothers.
The city lies in Alsace, a borderland scarred—like the Somme—by war between Germany and France; Mr Studer's grandfathers fought on opposite sides.
So to use German uniform replicas with Estonian Legion symbols – quite the same that our grandfathers wore in WWII – was quite an organic development.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's great-great-grandfathers owned more than a dozen slaves in the 1800s, according to a recent NBC News report.
I imagined them hiding away old photographs of grannies in unironed saris or grandfathers in muddy fields, when they visited one another for cocktails.
He, Winston S. Churchill and Yevgeni Dzhugashvili gathered at Maastricht in the Netherlands to review the legacy of their grandfathers' 1945 conference at Yalta.
Young sailors or Marines confided how they wound up enlisting; many said their parents had not served in the military but their grandfathers had.
"We were taught by our dads, and by our grandfathers, and by our coaches, and our teachers how you're supposed to act," McLaughlin continued.
She's of Yoruba descent — seven of her grandfathers were enslaved in Nigeria and taken to Cuba between 1838–66 to work the sugar cane.
In the campaign, the skin care brand — which is also owned by Unilever — shows how grandfathers, teachers, uncles, coaches and brothers can influence children.
Many have struggled not just to trust men in general, but it has impacted their relationships with their fathers, grandfathers, uncles, brothers, husbands, boyfriends.
Many shaving routines that are passed down from fathers and grandfathers are riddled with incorrect techniques that can cause irritation and other skin problems.
AW: In my case, it was the terrible things I'd heard about my grandfathers, both of them, when I was 8 or 9 years old.
"Both my grandfathers were arrested off the street, put in jails, and separated from their families for over three years," Yonemoto tells The Creators Project.
His pedigree embodied the paradox: one of his grandfathers was the railway magnate John Murray Forbes; the other, the transcendentalist philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Russians stopped by the homes of their grandfathers and grandmothers, to drink tea or have lunch, and let the wartime generation know they were appreciated.
If you guys are going to exploit my grandfathers legacy for some retweets at least honor him by getting his name right GOD-WIN not Goodwin.
Both my grandfathers had died long before I was born, a reason perhaps, those mailed good wishes notwithstanding, for my never feeling anything personal toward Eisenhower.
Cousins, grandfathers, great-grandmothers all documented, the memories of them held even by family members who never knew them because their faces were cemented in images.
The House bill would phase out certain deductions for personal casualty losses — but "grandfathers" victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, though not the horrific California fires.
He didn't have much interaction with animals or agriculture, other than the occasional fishing trip with his grandfathers, which he looks back on with some regret.
The roundup "is a way of continuing what our fathers and grandfathers always did," said Gerra González Alonso, 54, who tracked down four of his horses.
Young children, unaware, climbed an empty sausage-and-pepper stand, waiting for their fathers and grandfathers to complete construction of the festival's iconic pillar: the giglio.
The dining room is finished in copper, oak and white brick, and the restaurant gets its name, short for Gustavo, from one of Mr. Decrescenzo's grandfathers.
MARTIN IHRIGAssociate deanDivision of business New York University Frenchmen who complain about reducing the speed limit should be glad they did not live in their grandfathers' time.
Not a lot of people want to be here, she said, because ''90 percent of our cases are kids being drilled in the ass by their grandfathers.
But deep down this was a scrap about whether ranchers and miners whose great-grandfathers toiled to tame the sagebrush steppes are trustworthy stewards of the land.
Though Garrod's father and grandfathers studied medicine—two of them even treated Queen Victoria directly—Garrod entered Newnham College in 1913 to study ancient and classical history.
"I wanted to write it just for grandfathers everywhere and the kids," adds McCartney, 76, "so, it gives you something to read to the grandkids at bedtime."
Some of our abuelos and abuelas (grandfathers and grandmothers) may have come here with a third-grade education and worked menial jobs to provide for their kids.
Certainly, most actors of his generation have stepped into supporting roles or started playing grandfathers or what have you, but Dreyfuss appears to have sidestepped even that.
"Everything I do is so your generation won't have to go through what I and your grandfathers' generation experienced," he said in the video to his daughter.
Unlike their fathers and grandfathers, this latest set of business leaders stand accused of inheriting management control and wealth through opaque bookkeeping and questionable trading among subsidiaries.
The pair, whose grandfathers were brothers, beamed as they made their way over the tarmac through crowds of clergy, children and government officials to a waiting motorcade.
"I think it's political correctness," said Mr. Houle, who has an installation in the museum, called "Seven Grandfathers" (2014), that comprises seven paintings that resemble ceremonial drums.
The great-grandfathers of Chung, Loo, and Zorrilla, and Chiang's grandfather arrived in the first decades of the 20th century from different areas of Guangdong seeking economic opportunities.
The Sioux were forcibly evicted from their land, and the mountain formerly known as Six Grandfathers was named after the first white man to express interest in it.
"A lot of children are staying just with their grandfathers or grandmas, spending (more) time in the streets," said Lilian Levandovschi, head of Moldova's anti-trafficking police unit.
Educational services and the institutions that provide them need to be built for lifelong learning versus today's one-stop-shop that satisfied the career needs of our grandfathers.
Unlike their fathers and grandfathers, these working-class white kids could no longer leave school at 15 and easily find jobs that would set them up for life.
"The grandfathers and the grandmothers communicate through the kites," she said, flanked by two other young women honored at the festival, all donning embroidered clothing and elaborate headdresses.
Both of my grandfathers served in the armed forces and they instilled a strong work ethic in their children that helped my family recover from those devastating floods.
In the ad, they explain why they decided to work for Mr. Buttigieg and reference their prominent grandfathers, the civil rights activist Esau Jenkins and Representative James E. Clyburn.
We're ending the chain migration where, in his case, they say he might have had up to 24 people come in with him, indirectly — aunts, uncles, cousins, grandfathers, grandmothers.
One of his grandfathers rejected collectivisation, kept an Orthodox icon in his house and was arrested in 1934 for not carrying out orders to sow; he had no seeds.
The two grew so close that George W. Bush has referred to Clinton as his "brother from another mother," and Clinton has said the two bonded over becoming grandfathers.
"The help given by the Americans can never be forgotten, and the story of their glorious exploit will be told by grandfathers to their grandchildren," grateful Russians told them.
Those on trial at The Hague are precursors of some of the continent's current nationalist leaders -- just as they themselves are a throwback to their own grandfathers' uglier inclinations.
When you've been waiting for this forever, and now it's here, you think about the people in the past who didn't get to see it — our fathers and grandfathers.
If someone told you a grime music video made by two British grandfathers was going viral, you'd probably expect it to fall into the "so bad it's good" category.
One of his grandfathers had been a circuit-riding preacher in the Cook Inlet region of southern Alaska, and a grandmother had ministered to indigenous people in the area.
Blauner, the agent, represented the book.) In writing about grandmotherhood (grandfathers are even more underrepresented on bookstore shelves), they've taken a collective deep breath and proceeded with unexpected honesty.
Pairing socks with sandals is typically a style best left to grandfathers, gardeners, and golfers, but landing in LAX on Thursday, the rapper decided to reappropriate this dad-approved attire.
But while his father and grandfathers mostly plied their trade on the local level, Tom Corbally — the kid who loved to travel the world — would take the family's skills global.
Mr Banfi said his first moves would be to lobby for UNESCO to give World Heritage status to grandfathers like himself and to his home town of Canosa di Puglia.
The party itself included an oversized pink banner featuring the birthday girl's photo – proudly displayed by Vivianne's grandfathers – blue balloons, and tables covered in an array of bright plastic covers.
So, as a nerdy Muslim kid growing up in Indiana, I imagined my grandfathers were like characters from Narnia or Middle-earth, Shariah-compliant wizards who dispensed wisdom and miracles.
And particularly those by their daring, as Ronald Reagan said, gave up their chance at being husbands and fathers and grandfathers and gave up their chance to be revered old men.
But barely a year after launching their new publications, the young cis gay men in charge of those digital properties left their positions to head up the grandfathers of LGBT media.
Jones, who is tall and stout in the way that 63-year-old grandfathers often are, is one of the plaintiffs in the redistricting lawsuit, and an Indian boarding school survivor.
The proposal also grandfathers Medicaid eligibility for Alaska Natives who are currently enrolled in ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion and provides 85033 percent federal funding for all Medicaid services delivered to Alaska Natives.
The Anti-Defamation League has called the alt-right "the new white supremacy," and its figures poke fun at their grandfathers' displays of white pride even as they create their own.
There are, indeed, gay characters in my books, most notably Larry and Wayne, the eccentric grandfathers of my heroine, Cass, even if I am rather discreet in how I portray them.
But the moment Bill's paws went to work, the hunters—old men, senior citizens, grey, retired, grandfathers—dropped their canes and ran as fast as their tired bodies would take them.
Zinke faced backlash this week for responding "konnichiwa" to a congresswoman's story about her grandfathers' detention in internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II during a hearing on Thursday.
Conclusion This piece is not to lessen the sacrifices of those European soldiers with whom I share a bond forged in blood by our grandfathers; their honor and valor is without question.
Coping through Harry Potter got me through those anxious nights, my first heartbreak as a teenager, the death of both of my grandfathers, the sudden passing of a close friend in college.
Much of Malick Sidibe's work hangs abroad now, but an archive of photos of Malian grandfathers and mothers in their coolest sunglasses must hang in hundreds of living rooms around the country.
A product of France's elite schools, including ENA, he was better linked in the public mind with his love of rural Corrèze, where his grandfathers came from: its paysans, itscattle, its cheeses.
Biden, as he later admitted, had several college graduates on his mother's side of the family, and one of his great-grandfathers was not just a college graduate but a state senator.
The Solel partners, who named the firm after their grandfathers who sparked their interest in investing, will make bets on equities and credit, targeting consumer, financial, retail and certain technology and healthcare companies.
In a post Sunday night for the website Medium, the former Texas congressman writes that the documents showed that one of his paternal great-great-great grandfathers owned two women in the 1850s.
Celebrations of Victory Day, marking the Soviet Union's triumph in World War II, were always a big family event when I was little — my two grandfathers, then still alive, were both war veterans.
The Baptist part is inherited, like baldness or dimples: Both of my grandfathers and three of my uncles were Baptist preachers, and my parents met as graduate students at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Snowden came from a military family—one of his grandfathers was a rear admiral in the Coast Guard with an office at the Pentagon—and his father and mother worked for the government.
And at Boeing, a company that employs grandfathers next to granddaughters and has introduced generations of Washingtonians to their spouses, the unease has been evident from the executive suite to the factory floor.
But for now, the critical U.S.-ROK relationship — strongly supported by the peoples of the two countries and sealed with the blood of their fathers and grandfathers — has returned to an even keel.
In his catalogue essay, Villa Merkel's director, Andreas Baur, cites the influence of "the grandfathers of European art" on Kaprow's painting, listing Paul Klee, Georges Braque, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, and Henri Matisse.
On Saturday Jonas and Turner both showed off their new ink from tattoo artist Mr. K at Bang Bang Tattoos on Instagram, revealing that they each got a tattoo in honor of their grandfathers.
To cut through insurance bureaucracy, one of Trevor's grandfathers offered to put the first vial on his credit card, no matter what it cost, if it meant his grandson would get the medicine promptly.
Tsipouro was once considered the provenance of grandfathers—the sort of thing old men have with their midday coffee in the village square and which younger men learn to appreciate too late in life.
Dozens of people wrote — either to me, or on the comments below the online article — about the experiences of husbands, brothers, fathers, uncles, grandfathers and great-uncles who had served on board the Wasp.
Baroness Warsi, a former Conservative Cabinet minister, said both of her grandfathers fought for Britain in World War II, a connection that 20 years later inspired her father to move from Pakistan to Yorkshire.
"At the end of the day, they are our grandfathers, and we want to take them home," said Rosa Gil, granddaughter of Pedro Gil who died fighting on the side of Franco's victorious Nationalist forces.
My last stop was the Zia Pueblo, a half-hour from Albuquerque, to see what Peter Pino, a former war chief and cultural leader, had to say about the Ancestral Puebloans he calls his grandfathers.
So, the only people I can think of are my two grandfathers—my grandad and my Grandpa Mac—and an old school friend called Jack, who passed away in an accident when we were 18.
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (Reuters) - In this flat, windy expanse just south of the Canadian border, U.S. Air Force pilots fly the same bombers their grandfathers flew, using mid-221th century cables and pulleys.
Realism is less a principle than an excuse to concoct vivid fantasies of battle for the benefit of noncombatants, to rub our faces in details that our fathers and grandfathers were famously reluctant to discuss.
But where our own grandfathers' hand-painted model airplanes or rebuilt carburetors pleased only the maker (and me!), a perfectly executed spaghetti alla carbonara or grilled steak or cassoulet brings happiness to all who eat it.
People can trace their Democratic roots back two generations to their fathers and grandfathers, many of whom had never received a paycheck until they were hired by Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration in the mid-1930s.
The nature of work itself is changing from the employer-managed model of our fathers' and grandfathers' economies to a self-managed economy where major companies may no longer directly employ its producers or own property.
McConnell's great-great-grandfathers, James McConnell and Richard Daley, owned at least 14 slaves while living in Limestone County, Alabama, according to the county "Slave Schedules" in the 193 and 1860 censuses, reviewed by NBC News.
In general, "several studies have shown that among both grandmothers and grandfathers, in Europe as well as in the USA, on average more than 50% of the grandparents reported to look after their grandchildren," she added.
And so these guys grew up with the idea that if they went into the same kind of world that their fathers and their grandfathers entered, that they would be entitled to certain kinds of benefits.
"This report highlights that quitting smoking is one of the most important things that people can do to improve their health," said Adams, who added that he lost both of his grandfathers to smoking-related conditions.
Bennet recalled that one of Gorsuch grandfathers grew up in an Irish tenement in Denver and the other was a local lawyer who worked his way through law school as a street-car conductor in Denver.
I wondered, do Afghan mothers in tribal villages have sex and relationship talks with their daughters (especially the underage ones they are about to marry off to men old enough to be their fathers ... or grandfathers)?
While today's generation of fathers is not the first to change diapers or be actively involved in child care, they are more likely to participate than their own fathers, and much more so than their grandfathers.
But finally, it cruelly disadvantages even further the real immigrants from Colombia, and the real kids whose grandfathers had to eat roadkill or who were raised by a single mom without a wealthier dad in the background.
Earlier this year, both got tattoos from Mr. K in honor of their respective grandfathers, with Jonas getting a tattooed portrait of his "Papa" on his arm and Turner getting her grandfather's initial tattooed on her pinky.
The young men in high school that he works with "are masturbating way more to online porn than previous generations," which could be lowering the "sense of urgency" that drove their fathers and grandfathers to seek sex.
"If you think about millennials when they were born, they cannot recall that Cadillac was once their grandfather's car because their grandfathers were already in BMWs, Mercedes and Audis from the time they can remember, " Ellinghaus said.
Most people, including the main character's parents, see their children's destinies as already decided; only time separates the boys growing up in the region from beginning factory work, just like their fathers and grandfathers did decades before.
"Men feel angry and pissed off and entitled," he said, adding that this occurs in response to the perception that their fathers and grandfathers benefited from a wealth of privileges they are now being denied but deserve.
Wilkerson talks about how one of the former first lady's grandfathers moved from South Carolina to Chicago, not straight north to the Washington or New York areas, which most people from that region of the South did.
The good will and assistance you extended to us Japanese, the enemy you had fought so fiercely, together with the tremendous spirit of tolerance were etched deeply into the hearts and minds of our grandfathers and mothers.
But that investment was largely limited to those who were white — and their descendants, who would go on to benefit not only from their fathers' and grandfathers' degrees, but also from the lack of debt that accompanied them.
He had few of those, but school had got him interested in reading, and one of his grandfathers, a white man who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company, had been a Franklin searcher and written articles about him.
That's why I'm the only candidate from the very beginning of this campaign who had a plan to help us revitalize coal country, because those coal miners and their fathers and their grandfathers, they dug that coal out.
Lest we forget about grandfathers and their unearthly powers, the beloved children's author Tomie dePaola, best known for the classic witchy grandmother story "Strega Nona" (1975), has created the beautifully spare picture book QUIET (Simon & Schuster, 28 pp.
Both of my grandfathers, who were so happy for a short time after they traded the weather and problems of the North for their new home and their new lives, died within a decade of making the move.
Outfitting an assassin of the C-suite in an item of apparel typically associated with doting grandfathers and white-haired Irish poets is a mordant costume choice, like slipping an M-80 firecracker into an Easter flower arrangement.
Simmons, who stepped down from his companies last fall in the wake of allegations of harassment and sexual assault, is known as one of the "grandfathers of hip hop" as the co-founder of Def Jam Recordings record label.
"I think about the people who supported Trump, and continue to support Trump," he told Stephanopoulos, but only -- according to his comments Sunday -- in the context of what "their fathers and grandfathers" fought and died for in the military.
It is unfortunate that our memory of the First World War – a war in which both of our Grandfathers were directly involved – has waned, its importance sidelined by other events and overshadowed by the vicissitudes of the last century.
Katie Woodruff's kids currently have two grandfathers and five grandmothers and equivalents, which leads her Bay Area family to shuttle between Seattle and Los Angeles at Thanksgiving, while planning visits at other times of year to keep everyone happy.
On Wednesday, John J. Gotti, the grandson of the infamous Gambino family don who shares his name, was sentenced to five years in prison, following in the footsteps of two of his uncles, two great-uncles and both grandfathers.
In an interview with The New York Times in 1994, he remembered hearing stories about two of his great-great-grandfathers, who crossed the mountains with Brigham Young on wagon trains in the 20143s and became businessmen in Utah.
It had a sensational kicker: When she learned the truth about her biological parents, she also learned that one of her grandfathers was George Hodel, a prime suspect in the infamously gruesome and unsolved Black Dahlia killing in 1947.
Both of our grandfathers found themselves playing with legendary musical figures early in their lives; Smino's granddad played bass guitar for blues musician Muddy Waters and mine served as the drummer for two tours with George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic.
As I traveled back to China on Saturday, I looked at the passport in my hand and thought of my two grandfathers whose warring families became one peaceful one, and was glad for those gold letters spelling out "European Union."
The grandfathers of the activists and writers W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes are listed among the convention participants, along with the artist and photographer Robert Douglass Jr., the engraver Patrick Henry Reason and the missionary Levi Coppin.
Two of McConnell's great-great-grandfathers, Richard Daley and James McConnell, owned at least 14 slaves, all but two of them women, in Limestone County, Alabama, NBC reported, citing countywide "Slave Schedules" published as part of the 1850 and 1860 censuses.
This is a franchise that has hated—that word is not an exaggeration—young players for so long that some of the first kids it suppressed and dealt away for other teams' veterans are now old enough to be grandfathers.
His 91-year-old company, founded by one of his great-grandfathers, is building its first New York City residence, a 24-story environmentally friendly rental on a former parking lot at 211 West 29th Street, which will include affordable apartments.
In prose at once lucid, lyrical and rich in simile, Pardlo historicizes his grandfathers' migration to the East Coast, his family's middle-class life in suburban New Jersey, episodes of adolescent strife and his hasty enlistment in the Marine Corps Reserve.
"These 76 and 67 year old grandfathers – and hundreds of other hunger strikers around the world – feel so desperate about the climate crisis that they risk damaging their own health on behalf of younger generations," Cole said in a statement.
The 2628 Immigration Act required immigrants to pass a literacy test, but it exempted several categories of immigrants from taking the test, including U.S. citizens' children, fathers or grandfathers older than 28503, wives, mothers, grandmothers, and unmarried or widowed daughters.
Football is the endgame, the gritty final distillation of the dream that our great-grandfathers came here to dream, the one systematic and proven process that can still result in a scholarship, a way out for the next generation, maybe big money.
This mini-series draws from the life of Fauna Hodel, an author who, after learning she was adopted by African-American parents, discovered that one of her grandfathers was George Hodel, a prime suspect in the unsolved Black Dahlia murder of 1947.
Behind our perpetual displacement towers the man who promised our grandfathers to "illuminate the path for all mankind," then broke them, broke their children and would have broken us, had chance, that twin cousin of history, not interfered, this time in our favor.
The satirical version stands this portrayal on its head, denouncing the grandmother's love of her gas-guzzling motorbike and piling it on with the suggestion that she swaps her bike for an S.U.V. that she uses to plow over a couple of grandfathers.
It's hard to imagine that the Soviet bear, which slunk out of Afghanistan with his tail between its legs almost three decades ago, has been reincarnated today and is offering assistance to the men whose fathers and grandfathers likely drove them out.
I believe as president she will continue to fight for women's rights, human rights, health care for all and that she will devote her full energy to making the world a better place for my (and all other grandmothers' and grandfathers') children and grandchildren.
American living standards briefly improved, then hit bottom after a long-term decline: In 1880, the average American-born white boy of 10 could expect to live to age 48 and grow to 5 feet 5 inches, considerably less than his Revolutionary-era great-grandfathers.
But a brother-in-law who is intimately involved in the affairs of a person living in America will have a legitimate claim, as will many if not most uncles, aunts, nieces, grandmothers and grandfathers who are all out of luck under the Trump administration's interpretation.
"I think in general, the younger generation simply don't have some of the prejudices about certain colors that perhaps the fathers and grandfathers do, who were raised with that idea that pink is only for little girls or a boy should never wear pink," she said.
They didn't want other people to know what their lives were like, and so they all let the kids grow up where the family knew what their parents or their aunts and uncles, and grandfathers and grandmothers were like and they didn't know much about other folks.
US, the Supreme Court held an Oklahoma law passed in 1910 that required literacy to vote, unless it could shown an individual's grandfather was allowed to vote, was unconstitutional because the intent was to exclude African-Americans, the vast majority of whose grandfathers would have been unable to vote.
Some states went so far as to exempt those whose family members or grandfathers had voted — literally a grandfather clause — around the time of the Civil War, thereby allowing whites whose family had historically voted to continue doing so, while singling out black voters whose ancestors couldn't vote.
Last month, Ulmer wrote to Bo Boilen of NPR to share the story behind the Great Headless Blank EP. Telling the tragic story of his 26th year, during which his father and two grandfathers passed away, Ulmer writes beautifully about loss and creativity in the face of tragedy.
Their families grew up hearing stories of bravery and courage: granted some of my men waited until later years to share the things that had happened to them in the war, but the grandchildren knew all along how special their grandfathers were – that they had done extraordinary things during WWII.
He found similarities in their worldview, but there was at least one significant difference: The Americans had internalized the American Dream, and so, when they could not provide for themselves and their families as their fathers and grandfathers had, they didn't blame an unfair system; they tended to blame themselves.
As someone who lost much of my own family in Poland to the Holocaust, including two great-grandfathers, Jakob Korn of Borowa and Naphtali Zilberberg of Chodecz, I recognize the enormous weight of this burden, and I marvel at how Mr. Wiesel carried it for a lifetime with such grace.
It reminded me that my grandfathers with all their flaws and frailties are both gone, and so is my grandmother with her shoebox full of small, fading Victory Mail letters, a War Department telegram, and photos of her one trip outside the United States, to a military cemetery in France.
Sura JeselsohnBronx To the Editor: As a proud Greek-American whose grandmothers were named Vassiliki and Xenia, whose grandfathers were Vassilios and Fotis, whose mother was Aphrodite, and whose other relatives and friends went by Persephone and Calliope and Melianthe, I say embrace those "difficult to pronounce and spell" names.
READ MORE: An Audience with Chongqing's Queen of Hot Pot "I understand that there must be people who visit whose fathers and grandfathers suffered during the Revolution," says Xiong Jinhua, a manager at the restaurant —also clad in a green soldier uniform and with a Mao badge on her chest.
He pointed to an anecdote where his Spielberg's grandfather shows him the tattoo on his arm from his time in a concentration camp, and that he'd gotten feedback from someone who said that the timeline didn't quite line up: his grandfathers were already in the country by the time the holocaust happened.
Race car driver Danica Patrick, who is a spokeswoman for Life Happens, obviously needs to protect herself because of her risky job, but she also comes from a family that was nearly destitute in the past because of the untimely deaths of both of her grandfathers, neither of whom had life insurance.
And with this group, it was literally our fathers' or grandfathers' blood that had been shed in first liberating the Continent from fascism and then our generation's and our children's put at risk in holding the line against massive, echeloned Soviet tank armies for over four decades until the Wall was toppled.
The company our fathers and grandfathers founded manufactures an FDA-approved medicine that has always represented a tiny portion of the opioid market -- never more than four percent of nationwide opioid prescriptions and currently less than two percent -- while providing life-changing relief for the millions of pain patients who need it.
Giebel, who has a personal interest in the topic because one of his grandfathers was part of a firing squad while the other hid a Jew, said he also wanted the exhibition to show how quickly a democracy could be abolished and make clear that undemocratic movements needed to be nipped in the bud.
I don't need to tell you that many men of your generation (and let's face it, mine) were not required to see to things like spots on clothes and crumbs in cars, especially if they spent their lives in the company of women who did that for them (and for their fathers and grandfathers, too).
When I told him that my younger son comes from a long line of exceptionally tall Ashkenazi men (his grandfathers, uncles and father all measure over 6 feet) and that his brother was in the upper 90th percentile for most of his first year, he told me that his largeness was to be expected.
There were 21981 artists from three generations on display: the grandfathers, such as Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Roberto Matta, and Willem de Kooning; the fathers, including Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Frank Stella, and Lucian Freud; and the sons, who were less familiar names at the time, such as Georg Baselitz, Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente, and Gerhard Richter.
Gunn, who directed the first two Guardians of the Galaxy movies and will direct the third film, tried to explain that the way Coppola and Scorsese see Marvel movies is how their movies were treated by the generation of directors before them: Many of our grandfathers thought all gangster movies were the same, often calling them "despicable".
The America of John McCain is the America of the boys who rushed the colors in every war across three centuries, knowing in them is the life of the republic, and particularly those by their daring, as Ronald Reagan said, gave up their chance of being husbands and fathers and grandfathers and gave up their chance to be revered old men.
The America of John McCain is the America of the boys who rushed the colors in every war across three centuries, knowing in them is the life of the Republic, and particularly those by their daring, as Ronald Reagan said, gave up their chance as being husbands and fathers and grandfathers and gave up their chance to be revered old men.
Her Irish-American grandfathers who rose to power in Boston politics get their due, but "The Nine of Us" really begins in Hyannis Port, the playground and testament to Joe Kennedy's great success, first as a banker and stock picker, then as a Hollywood financier, and above all as an investor who knew when to get out: right about the time Jean was born in 1928.
Sen. Barbara BoxerBarbara Levy BoxerOnly four Dem senators have endorsed 2020 candidates Hispanic civil rights icon endorses Harris for president California AG Becerra included in Bloomberg 50 list MORE (D-Calif.) said presidential candidate Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE has been helpful to the Democratic Party by galvanizing young voters — possibly with help from his resemblance to that generation's grandfathers.

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