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Old 02-08-2010, 01:49 PM
suginami suginami is offline
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A co-worker of mine has the last name, Miller.

His grandparents immigrated from Switzerland to the U.S., and their original last name was Mueller.

During WWII, they were afraid of anti-German sentiment, so they changed their last name to Miller to sound more "American".
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