On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:33:07 -0600, "Canuck57"
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"wf3h" wrote in message
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On Aug 26, 6:30 am, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
A true American - he knew tragedy and triumph, he was the best of us
and the worst of us.

amazing man from an amazing family
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We they not an empire built on bootleging or was it smuggling?

Yep - as did my maternal grandparents.

Made a regular run from some little burg in Ontario on the Lake Huron
side down Lake Michigan to Milwaukee and by road down to Chicago.

Gramps brother was a brewmaster and had a brewery hidden in my Uncle
Dave's barn outside of Racine. :) Later became Miller's Chief
Brewmaster after Prohibition.

Later gone liberal and legit, sort of?

Yep. :)