If my loyalty is sought to be questioned by the Nazis or their sympathizers. I am willing to parallelcolumn my record with the record of any man in their ranks. I count it as incomparably ny greatest good fortune that my parents. who were immigrants. came to these shores in time to bestow upon me the priceless heritage of birth on American soil. Perhaps my freedom from foreign entanglements is due in part to the fact that they came of a people who cannot be charged with any great love for a foreign power. They came from the Emerald Isle. My father enlisted and served in the Union Army before his naturalization. That may have been due in part to the proverbial love of his blood for a fight. but the fact of his service remains. When this country entered the World War.
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Proverbial love of his blood for a fight.