OK… Not a book recommendation, just something funny that one of my cousins told me recently related to submarines...
I’m a first generation American, The entire family is from Germany.
The other day my cousin called me up from South Carolina, where the bulk of the family lives, and asked me what we need to be concerned about related to the coronavirus. The man I named after is in his 80s and he’s getting frail but he refuses to give up doing his normal every day trips to Home Depot for his real estate empire...
My cousin tells me that my uncle gets a veterans discount at Home Depot and Lowe’s.
“He was in the US Military?,” I say?
“No, he was in the German Navy in the U-Boat service...”
”Holy shit, really? ...and they’re giving him a veterans discount!!”
Apparently he told them that he was in the German Navy, and the submarine service… And they both thanked him for his service and give him a discount!!
You got a love America!
(He is a US Citizen, for about 55 years... starting working at a company literally sweeping the floors and retired as the CEO.)