Thank you for the help
I'm glad to hear that you have a kind of relation with my country.
Belgian people who emigrated to the U.S are known as hard working people. So be proud of your ancestors. i'm sure they belonged to the group of hard working and friendly people.
I myself have been in the United States for almost one year. That was long ago, to be precisely from december1956 until half november 1957.
During this time a was a member of the Belgium navy ( radar operator). I stayed in Charleston- South Carolina and in Norfolk. That was the time that Eisenhouwer was president . I was only 17 years old. During my stay in Charleston i got luck to be invited at Christmas and after that all the time that I stayed in Charleston, by a family with the name "Peoples. Mr People was a war veteran, who during a raid was shot down and picked up by the English navy. I remember that he showed me the paper from this time, where was said that he was killed in action.! He was decorated with the purple hart, one of the highest decorations you can get in the U.S I guess. I and some of my colleges where invited by him and his family, as a kind of thank for the fact that the English navy saved his live. He lived in the Cedar Avenue 102B in Charleston. They also had a son who must be now about 50 years old i guess. In the last five years i tried to get in contact with ths family, hoping some of them are still alive. But until now without any success.