My Family: Christmas 2000 − 25 December, 2000
This is a family photo taken at Christmas, 2000. We'd just bought our new house, so we invited our parents down. Meet my family:
From left to right:
Amy T. Hamilton, Hannah's mother.
Silas Thurman, Amy's brother, Hannah's uncle.
Bunnie McCosar, my father.
Martha McCosar, my mother.
Hannah Hamilton, my wife.
Me.
Now, a lot of you new to this blog may have noticed the multicolored nature of this particular family photo. My dad is Creek Indian; my wife is black. Heck, for the record, my aunt was Korean. Yesterday, the front page article on Wikipedia was this one:
Military Brat
See, my father was in the Marine Corps. I found just about everything in this article true -- especially the part about anti-racism. In first grade, my two best friends were Alexander Guilford (black) and Chuck Setzer (Filipino). I thought nothing of it -- that was just the way the world worked.
And then . . . my dad went overseas. We had to live with my grandparents for a year. In some ways, it was a total nightmare. Let's just say what I found in rural Georgia was not the promised land.
From left to right:
Amy T. Hamilton, Hannah's mother.
Silas Thurman, Amy's brother, Hannah's uncle.
Bunnie McCosar, my father.
Martha McCosar, my mother.
Hannah Hamilton, my wife.
Me.
Now, a lot of you new to this blog may have noticed the multicolored nature of this particular family photo. My dad is Creek Indian; my wife is black. Heck, for the record, my aunt was Korean. Yesterday, the front page article on Wikipedia was this one:
Military Brat
See, my father was in the Marine Corps. I found just about everything in this article true -- especially the part about anti-racism. In first grade, my two best friends were Alexander Guilford (black) and Chuck Setzer (Filipino). I thought nothing of it -- that was just the way the world worked.
And then . . . my dad went overseas. We had to live with my grandparents for a year. In some ways, it was a total nightmare. Let's just say what I found in rural Georgia was not the promised land.
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