Matt Leclercq: My French grandpa's love of America
My last name comes from my grandfather, Pierre Leclercq, who was born in the northern France city of Lille in 1929.He was barely a teenager when the Germans invaded his country. He would recount stories about how he and his young friends would sabotage Nazi vehicles and throw rocks at them. Grandpa was good at telling stories — when I was a kid, he convinced me that chocolate mousse was made out of moose, and shoo-fly pie was full of, well, flies. But I believe he and his […]
