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Entry: The "Good War" and the Terrible Peace Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_good_war_and_the_terrible_peace#29562 Post contents: I sympathize with "man"'s point above, and have some family background to illustrate the confusion of nationalities in that region. My mother's family, named Ohmer, came from Alsace/Elsass, and although having what I would have thought was a Germanic name, seem to have conceived of themselves as French. Neverthless, once they arrived in Ohio, that did not stop them from marrying folks with unambiguously German names such as Beckmann and Kiefaber. Of course here in Houston we have the more famous example of the same kind of "confusion" in the Schlumberger (Texianized in speech to "Slumber-Jay") family. Sent at: 2009 01 08