Lilred you will be interested to know that my fathers side was from Virginia. I ran across a geneology website with various family names back only to around the 1700's. In my mind I imagined some aristocratic background from England...No such luck...most were farmers, trappers and from around 1900 to as late as 1950 I realized my family was heavily involved in illegal alcohol, specifically the making and transporting of such...I found many names that were shot by competing still makers, a few more shot by law enforcement...a couple of wives shot by husbands, more than one husband shot by another family member....and more than a few died from accidents????I was told my father was one of the best liquor runners in Virginia, after being caught by an uncle who was law enforcement he was given the choice to go to jail or join the service...he joined the Navy and was the Heavyweight champion boxer while in service...my fathers service record (which I requested) list him on his main ship the "Muer" and twelve other ships as "service to his country"after getting in touch with a commander from Muer, I was told those ships are the ships he boxed and won on...so the bottom line was my fathers war effort was being a boxer and quite a good one from what I gather...but I digress, he was discharged and became a race car driver "running moonshine" and raced with some of the very best of the times and won...so thats my daddy's side.......no wonder he was my hero
