People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My family became Unitarians instead - it's the same sort of thing.
My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.
I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
