>For those who care about my cousin's story, the short form is
>that he was a US Army Sargent stationed in Germany, and his father
>told him to go visit my grandfather his next leave and get the family
>to the US. So he showed up at the US embassy in Brussels in his full
>dress uniform (including the various medals he got from hitting the
>beaches at Normandy (and losing a leg in the process)) and was
>escorted right in to the ambassador (past the line of people waiting
>outside) who asked "what can I do for you?"

I like this a lot, but I'm a little confused - was your cousin a Belgian serving in the US forces, or had his branch of the family already emigrated at some earlier point? Just trying to pin down the connection to Belgium.

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