I'm a third generation american of polish immigrants.Many of you guys can go to ancestry .com, and trace your lineage back hundreds of years, we cant. Those who the germans didn't kill, the russians did. I'm an american first, always will be. Our family fought in WW2, korea,and nam. I'm not aware of any that serve or have served in the middle east. Most of them were at an age where they chose education over military service.