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Daniel Christiansen

Reddit users went digging for this guys info. Here’s what they found: Christiansen was born in 1904 in Denmark. His parents were Seventh Day Adventists so that his how he was raised and where his beliefs lie. The highest education he received is equivalent to an 8th-grade education. He immigrated to the United States in 1927. He was a carpenter that was fluent in Danish and English. He then went to the Pocono People’s College in Henryville, PA. The college closed, he moved to Newark, NJ. He enlisted in the military in 1942. He was not an American citizen, but people believe he enlisted to speed up the process. He was discharged in 1945. He died in 1994.