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IMMIGRANTS ALWAYS DREAM
That's a pretty broad statement to make. How can one be certain that such is true?
I don't suppose anyone could claim that it's 100% true, but you don't have to dig very far into history and genealogy to be able to consider that for the most part, immigrants always dream.
Imagine packing all of your life into a twenty-four foot moving van and taking your family and moving to another State where you don't know anyone. Have you done that? I have. It's an uncertain feeling, and it's a feeling that makes a person feel very small when they see that all they have acquired in this life can actually be transported in a twenty-four foot moving van.
Now, imagine this. A single man, packing everything that he holds dear, into a bag and boarding a ship alone, leaving behind his parents, his siblings, his native country, his native language, all that is familiar to him, and setting sail for the shores of America .
That's perspective. That's a dreamer. Someone who so longs for a better life, not only for himself, but for the opportunity to marry, to see his children born, to work and earn a living, meager though it may be, for a yet unseen family, in a yet unseen land. A land that did not welcome them as they many times dreamed it would. A land where their first experience of this new found freedom was walking down the plank of a ship into a crowded arena of people who were sickly, hungry and poor. A land where few could understand how to say their name, let alone spell their name, and so many times their name was recorded incorrectly. A land where they soon learned that if they did not quickly "melt" into this new world and let go of what had been familiar to them and take on new customs, eat new food, speak a new language and still be mocked, they would not fulfill any dreams, but they would drown in their own sorrow and a longing for the old country.
So, they pressed on with a firm resolve. They fought, went hungry, traveled, worked in places where others would not work, lived in buildings where others would not live, but they survived, for we are here today to attest to the fact that they survived. Had it not been for their sacrifice and yes, their dream, we would not be here today in this land of freedom.
With those thoughts in my mind, as I pursue the research of my ancestors, I can say assuredly that "Immigrants Always Dream".
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