A great melting pot that is the U.S.
A great melting pot that is the U.S.
Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Indian, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Syria, Vietnam. I can't believe that through my lifetime I have met people from each of these countries.
My ancestors came from Czechoslovakia and Germany; my wife's ancestors came from England and France. What about your ancestors? What area of the world did they come from?
When I was in the Army, I served with a fellow from Norway and two who came from Germany. When I served in Germany, during our off hours occasionally we would meet in clubs with young German people. Many of them had as a goal to come to the United States. Why? Because they believed that in the U.S. opportunities awaited them.
Our oldest granddaughter attended Hill Middle School in Naperville. Since she lived with us, my wife and I attended many school functions. At the first meeting of students and their parents, the school principal said that at Hill were children from families who spoke 106 different languages. What a shocking and eye-opening thought.
Why did my ancestors come to the U.S? Why did your ancestors come? Why did the 106 different families whose children attended Hill Middle School come They undoubtedly all had good reason to leave their ancestral homelands to move to a strange new country. How many of us would want to do such a thing?
E pluribus unum means "out of many, one." So many different people have come together to build the U.S.
My favorite Super Bowl commercial was the singing of "America the Beautiful" in a variety of languages. It spoke much about what the U.S. is.
Richard Kastner
Aurora