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learn to pack fast and travel light. We were fortunate to live on base during many deployments, although of course we went back home to upper Maine when we couldn't go along. That's where my dad grew up, though, because his father and grandfather farmed there. Even though they were certainly military in Ireland, with manufactured Welsh identities to allow immigration, they could hardly afford to interface with authorities any more than absolutely necessary. Low profile.

Dad was born here, though; so it was safe for him to go Army. We weren't allowed to know all that much of recent family history until we were old enough to be discreet. My kid sister never found out until Granddad and G-G were gone, and then I used to embarrass her with it. Yes, on purpose. She was the family twit. I think that's a much kinder term than idiot, don't you?