We Are All Children of Immigrants

A Letter to the Editor caught my eye today in the Bernardsville News (New Jersey.)
The writer had grown up about 20 minutes from where I did in Scranton, Pennsyvlania. The letter's headline reads, “We are all children of immigrants.”

Paula Morasco writes that her mother had been born in Poland she recalls fond childhood memories of marching in Scranton's Memorial Day parades. She says she joined other family parade marchers including uncles who served as American soliders during World War II in Europe.

Morasco mentions a Paraguayan community celebration she had recently attended and shares that the participants’ patriotism brought back her own childhood memories. “It was all the same,” she writes. “ America is the best country on this earth. She has her flaws but her strengths outweigh them in every aspect. One of her strengths is her diversity. Another is her respect for mankind. We are all children of immigrants.”

If you’d like to read this wonderful letter, here’s the link.

http://newjerseyhills.com/bernardsville_news/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/article_154918be-97b5-11e0-b15d-001cc4c03286.html