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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis Letter Trumps Grandfather Wrote Begging Not To Be Deported
http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/03/03/read-letter-trumps-grandfather-wrote-begging-not-deported/Translated from the original German by Harpers Bazaar, it is a moving and heartfelt letter that perfectly describes the struggle of an immigrant and the terror that deportation instills in people.
Most Serene, Most Powerful Prince Regent! Most Gracious Regent and Lord!
I was born in Kallstadt on March 14, 1869. My parents were honest, plain, pious vineyard workers. They strictly held me to everything good to diligence and piety, to regular attendance in school and church, to absolute obedience toward the high authority.
After my confirmation, in 1882, I apprenticed to become a barber. I emigrated in 1885, in my sixteenth year. In America I carried on my business with diligence, discretion, and prudence. Gods blessing was with me, and I became rich. I obtained American citizenship in 1892. In 1902 I met my current wife. Sadly, she could not tolerate the climate in New York, and I went with my dear family back to Kallstadt.
The town was glad to have received a capable and productive citizen. My old mother was happy to see her son, her dear daughter-in-law, and her granddaughter around her; she knows now that I will take care of her in her old age.
But we were confronted all at once, as if by a lightning strike from fair skies, with the news that the High Royal State Ministry had decided that we must leave our residence in the Kingdom of Bavaria. We were paralyzed with fright; our happy family life was tarnished. My wife has been overcome by anxiety, and my lovely child has become sick.
Why should we be deported? This is very, very hard for a family. What will our fellow citizens think if honest subjects are faced with such a decree not to mention the great material losses it would incur. I would like to become a Bavarian citizen again.
In this urgent situation I have no other recourse than to turn to our adored, noble, wise, and just sovereign lord, our exalted ruler His Royal Highness, highest of all, who has already dried so many tears, who has ruled so beneficially and justly and wisely and softly and is warmly and deeply loved, with the most humble request that the highest of all will himself in mercy deign to allow the applicant to stay in the most gracious Kingdom of Bavaria.
Your most humble and obedient,
Friedrich Trump
Friedrich Trumps request was denied, and he was repatriated to the United States, where he ran brothels and bars during the Yukon Gold Rush.
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This Letter Trumps Grandfather Wrote Begging Not To Be Deported (Original Post)
HAB911
Mar 2017
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Tanuki
(14,918 posts)1. He was just as big a liar and hypocrite as his grandson....barfing about his "piety"
yet getting rich off exploiting women in his brothels. I wish the King of Bavaria had let him stay, but he apparently knew a bad apple when he saw one. It would have spared us all a world of misery.
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)2. So his grandfather was a pimp? Figures
logosoco
(3,208 posts)4. But it sounds like he had a decent vocabulary at least!nt
malaise
(269,004 posts)3. His grandson will soon be begging for mercy
Demonaut
(8,916 posts)5. I thought he was a drumpf?!
UTUSN
(70,695 posts)6. R#4 & K. Irony is dead
"But we were confronted all at once, as if by a lightning strike from fair skies, with the news that the High Royal State Ministry had decided that we must leave our residence in the Kingdom of Bavaria. We were paralyzed with fright; our happy family life was tarnished. My wife has been overcome by anxiety, and my lovely child has become sick.
Why should we be deported? This is very, very hard for a family. What will our fellow citizens think if honest subjects are faced with such a decree not to mention the great material losses it would incur. I would like to become a Bavarian citizen again. "