My dad fought in the South Pacific and his brother, my uncle, died in a plane over Germany.
After he graduated from the University of Michigan and served in the army, Uncle Earl got my father a job in the engineering department at Chrysler, where he too worked for his entire career.
The conversation turns to oyster farming and I talk about spending my early summers in Virginia with my aunt, uncle, and cousin without electricity by the Chesapeake Bay, with hand-drawn water from a well and harvesting oysters from a small inlet.
Not the floating Buicks that my elderly aunt and uncle drove in the 1980s.
My great uncle on my mother's side (British) was in the Kensington Regiment.
My parents and my aunt and uncle worked double shifts in a boot factory for several years.
When I was in high school my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested.
My grandfather had served in World War II, and so had my great-uncle.
While we lived in England, my aunt and uncle would come out to visit and take trips with us through Europe.
My uncle gave me my Tibor Everglades on my wedding day in 2001.
My uncle is an engineer and he was teaching the next day in McGill and coincidentally the lecture he was giving was about high-rise buildings.
In all, six of my nieces would live under Daddy Uncle Ro Ro's roof at one time or another.
My loving uncle was diagnosed with dengue fever and I will never forget the look of pain in his eyes.
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In 1999, I went to Toyama, Japan, to briefly train with my uncle Yasushi Naoe, who was a kaiseki chef for over 50 years.
The namesake founder of my beloved corporate alma mater went on TV every Sunday night and became Uncle Walt, which resulted in many millions of folks subsequently vacationing at highly developed former swampland in Central Florida.
My guide Claudine Buehler, whose husband, father, uncle, aunt and grandfather all work or worked in the watchmaking business, explained that the buildings were laid out this way in the early 19th Century to maximize the amount of sunlight that could flood into the first-floor workshop windows.
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