Failing Our Fathers
10 min readJan 14, 2021
Seventy-six years ago, on January 20, 1945 my father took the oath of citizenship.
Barely 19 years old, I imagine him sitting on a bench inside the Federal Courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas dressed in a US Army Class A Uniform waiting to be called before the clerk of the court. It was, to say the least, and improbable place for him to be.