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The River

(2,615 posts) Sat Jun 30, 2018, 04:14 PM Jun 2018

Had to Post This Today

Just because it's too damned relevant.

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Had to Post This Today (Original Post) The River Jun 2018 OP

Nice song, appropriate and thanks yonder Jun 2018 #1

The Lady of the Harbor welcomed 6 of my ancestors while one of my family pazzyanne Jun 2018 #2

Beautiful - brought tears to my eyes about the direction this country is going. thx. erronis Jun 2018 #3

Absolutely beautiful RandomAccess Jun 2018 #4

It's My Story Too The River Jun 2018 #5

Got one minute in, almost started to cry...All four grandparents...came in ..1910..and here I am. Stuart G Jun 2018 #6

Beautiful and amazing. MarianJack Jun 2018 #7

Her light burned bright apkhgp Jun 2018 #8

K&R! My grandparents, too. They emigrated from Poland in 1912 and came through Ellis Island. Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #9

yonder

(9,664 posts)

1. Nice song, appropriate and thanks

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Sat Jun 30, 2018, 04:26 PM

Jun 2018

Whomever is playing the bouzouki there, good job.

pazzyanne

(6,551 posts)

2. The Lady of the Harbor welcomed 6 of my ancestors while one of my family

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Sat Jun 30, 2018, 04:30 PM

Jun 2018

entered illegally by jumping ship. All of them were welcomed to America back then. What is happening today makes my heart sick. We were a great nation - once.

erronis

(15,241 posts)

3. Beautiful - brought tears to my eyes about the direction this country is going. thx.

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Sat Jun 30, 2018, 05:51 PM

Jun 2018

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)

4. Absolutely beautiful

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Sat Jun 30, 2018, 05:59 PM

Jun 2018

So beautiful I'm bawling like a baby.

My German ancestors on one side and French on the other arrived here in the mid- to late-1800s. This great, sprawling nation took them all in. No reason they can't take asylum seekers in thru the southern border. We are not made less by them in any way -- it's our refusal to take them in that makes us less. MUCH less.

The River

(2,615 posts)

5. It's My Story Too

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Sat Jun 30, 2018, 06:33 PM

Jun 2018

Swedish/Norwegian/German immigrants in the 1880's.
Settled in Minnesota.

Stuart G

(38,421 posts)

6. Got one minute in, almost started to cry...All four grandparents...came in ..1910..and here I am.

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Sat Jun 30, 2018, 07:46 PM

Jun 2018

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Wonderful post. I've seen a lot of videos about lots of ideas, events, times and people. This is one of the most powerful videos I have ever seen. Thank You for posting. I already put it up on Facebook and all the rest. got to add this, because of open immigration 108 years ago...I am here writing these words..

Thanks again.......Stuart

MarianJack

(10,237 posts)

7. Beautiful and amazing.

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Sat Jun 30, 2018, 08:54 PM

Jun 2018

Thank you for posting.

PEACE!

apkhgp

(1,068 posts)

8. Her light burned bright

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Sat Jun 30, 2018, 09:27 PM

Jun 2018

Seventy years ago for two grandparents, my father, my aunt, and my uncle.

Now the light is out and the world is in darkness.

Help us...Somebody help us.

Rhiannon12866

(205,319 posts)

9. K&R! My grandparents, too. They emigrated from Poland in 1912 and came through Ellis Island.

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Sat Jun 30, 2018, 10:57 PM

Jun 2018

We put both of their names on the commemorative Wall there. I never met my grandfather, he came here at 18, they made him a citizen and sent him to France to fight for his new country. He met my grandmother later, she had arrived here at 15, was the eldest in her family and came with only a friend, and she must have seen sights exactly like this as her ship reached shore.

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