Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸
@thereisnocat
Advocating Semantic Markup since 1987. Not posting here any more. Married to @JerseyGrrrl. On Mastodon: @thereisnocat@toot.cafe
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 11, 2018 at 10:56:07 PM
#HeyJohnKelly My great-grandfather, whose name I share, came here from Italy in 1875 with his mom and brother to join his father in Saginaw. His parents followed later, chain migration. His son, my grandfather, was a Marine in WW II, and his daughter was a WAC during the war.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 11, 2018 at 10:37:16 PM
#HeyJohnKelly My Ukrainian grandmother came to Canada in 1930 because America discriminated against east Europeans and she couldn’t come here directly. She came to the U.S. in 1933 via a sham marriage in Windsor, Ontario, to a friend of her uncle in Detroit who brought her here.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 11, 2018 at 10:33:34 PM
#HeyJohnKelly My Ukrainian gt grandfather came here in 1909. He worked on the assembly line for Chrysler holding up axles for others to bolt on. My grandfather was a tool-and-die man for car cos. My dad was an engineer for GM. I work in marketing making web sites for car cos.
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