Fw: Fwd: from a young 'un reading Against the Day...and what he learned about our (immigrant) history

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

I'm not quite sure when Nana came over the waters 
from Sicila, but around that time too. 'Splains a lot.
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From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> my relatives came over from southern italy in 1904--back then that
> practically branded you as an anarchist
> 
> rich
> 
> On Feb 19, 2008 9:41 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I thought that the "Anarchist threat" was surely something Pynchon had
> > brushed into the US history ATD skates through. But then I happened
> > upon my grandfather's immigration papers. Just as immigrants needed to
> > declare they were not communists during the cold war, and need to
> > declare they are not terroritst today, in 1919 the "don't even bother
> > getting off the boat" question was Are you an Anarchist?
> >
> >
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