{"id":18308,"date":"2016-11-07T23:42:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T04:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18308"},"modified":"2016-11-07T23:46:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T04:46:16","slug":"family-research-in-kc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18308","title":{"rendered":"Family Research in KC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5516\/30815648996_4fc6b5f7af_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the view I had of the Missouri River as I headed into Kansas City MO after spending the morning researching more about my Grandfather Robb at his small college. I learned to today that he sent a letter to the President of the college during World War two encouraging him to accept Nisei students into the college rather than see them interned in Japanese concentration camps.<\/p>\n<p>He had attended the college with Japanese students twenty years before. Take that Trump!<\/p>\n<p>Then I headed to the Kansas City Public Library where I looked up my Dad&#8217;s old high school year books. I&#8217;ve never seen them. Here&#8217;s what my Dad looked like in 1943 &#8211; center position bottom row.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5780\/30216798583_1838f00149_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He always had big ears.<\/p>\n<p>By coincidence his ROTC class led him to his soon-to-be Father-in-law&#8217;s beloved Park College for further training to become a Naval Officer. My Dad was not so impressed with it. All these years later <em>I<\/em> am rather taken with the college&#8230;&#8230;.Half of it is under a sandstone dome of rock with cool tunnels. Hobbits would love it. Besides that, they dote on my Grandfather&#8217;s legacy because he&#8217;s one of their distinguished alums. I like basking in his reflection. It makes up for all those times my Mom told me not to cry as a kid because my grandfather was shot in war and he didn&#8217;t cry.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;m off to Topeka, Kansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the view I had of the Missouri River as I headed into Kansas City MO after spending the morning researching more about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18311,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18308\/revisions\/18311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}