Part Indian...German...English...Southern...slave...etc.
I'm an American and damn proud of it.
Of course; we all are.
By the way, the two events as described above, took place here in America, near White Haven, Pennsylvania, in 1901.
I'll have to backtrack to Ruthenia in the Carpathian mountains during the late 19th century--it was a part of Austria-Hungary at the time, later the tail end of Czechoslovakia, later stolen by the Soviet socialists and incorporated into Ukraine.
And then Amsterdam in the Netherlands is much involved.
After I get the "back story" all done, everything happens in America.
It's a "literary technique," although I have no pretensions about being literary; setting the stage by describing a later incident, so as to set the tone and (one hopes) captivate the audience, after which all goes in chronological order.
But most of it, fifty years of it, took place right here.
