Johnny and I had the most wonderful grandmother who always lived with us since the day we were born. She immigrated by herself to America at 18 years old after World War 1. We both took German classes in High School for 4 years. It was a lot of fun and hard work when we practiced together speaking and writing German with her.

Before Johnny died, we often spoke about getting dual citizenship with Germany as our Mother had both German and American citizenship. We found out that when we were born our mother could not pass her German citizenship down to us because she married our father, who was American. This disappointed both of us. Recently I discovered that Germany has changed their rules so that I can become a dual citizen. Johnny would have been ecstatic. Auf wiedersehen bis spater Johnny — Until we meet again.

Rest in Peace Johnny.