# No known ancestors killed in battle

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 4, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-known-ancestors-killed-in-battle/823980 "2018-11-04T19:34:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-known-ancestors-killed-in-battle/823980/41 "2018-11-05T16:35:01Z")

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I don’t know of any.

My grandfather was in the military, but that was between WW1 and WW2, so he never saw any action.

Just about all of my uncles (and my Dad) would have been of age to serve during Vietnam, but none of them did.

I imagine I have ancestors who fought in the Civil War, but nothing confirmed.

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-known-ancestors-killed-in-battle/823980/42 "2018-11-06T00:56:30Z")

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Another who has no known family member KIA, or for that matter fought in any war or skirmish of this century or the last.

On the other hand I had ancestors on both the Jacobite and Royalist armies at Culloden (1745), which disqualifies me.

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**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-known-ancestors-killed-in-battle/823980/43 "2018-11-06T02:20:26Z")

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No direct ancestors in the 20th century killed in battle that I know of. I lost several close friends in Vietnam. My father had 13 brothers who I think 10 served in world war II or Korea. A couple of purple hearts.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-known-ancestors-killed-in-battle/823980/44 "2018-11-06T03:11:33Z")

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> [@guestchaz](#):
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> This is my exact family history through the maternal line. As far as has been told to me the paternal line on my mom’s side is well enough documented that there are actual email and snail mail relationships with the “old country” branch of the family in Germany (well part of it anyway).

Bros! Ditto that for my family on Dad’s side. Alsace-Lorraine, then Russia, then Canada and down to Kansas. Mom’s side has been mucking about the South since Jamestown, but managed to avoid getting killed in battle.

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**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-known-ancestors-killed-in-battle/823980/45 "2018-11-06T16:01:37Z")

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I don’t know of any in my family. I think my paternal grandfather and both of my maternal grandparents were in WWII, and survived - not quite sure what their exact jobs were, maybe nothing too dangerous.

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