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Title: Coming To America (Neil Diamond's Anthem)
Source:
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URL Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTHdC7k4uY
Published: Apr 18, 2015
Author: Johnny Kim
Post Date: 2015-04-18 10:33:52 by Liberator
Keywords: Immigration, legal, NeilDiamond
Views: 11994
Comments: 36
Poster Comment: As a school project, some students honor America's welcoming arm to immigrants -- presumably, LEGAL ones. Excellent job with their photos as choice of song. Pretty touching tribute.... My ancestors all entered through Ellis Island. Must have been daunting but at the same time absolutely awesome entering New York Harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty as a symbolic of hope for the future.
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The lady on the left was my Great-Great granny. I've found everybody in the photo, except her, in the Ellis Island registry.... so we think maybe she was probably, technicaly, an "illegal" imigrant. I have a 5 generation snapshot of her holding me as an infant. In the same photo are my dad, his mom, and the woman on the middle, my Great granny whose matriarchal leadership our family had the pleasure of knowing until the mid 1990's. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
Excellent heirloom photo. The symbolism of your family as well as the ones in the video are indeed very marked and unique. Countless millions arrived with nothing BUT the clothes on their back and no expectation or demand that America would do anything for them but provide hope and opportunity.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestMy ancestors all entered through Ellis Island.
Snapshot of a family portrait on my wall. The original photograph was created circa 1918+ by my Great Great Grandfather. He was a blacksmith in Russia, and then in Johnstown Colorado -- after loading his family into a Cattle-boat headed for the Statue of Liberty.
There's so much symbolism in this photo. The piled snow, the small cold hands in pockets -- the bare skin and defiant eyes that seem to say: "Cold? We survived the Russian Revolution with nothing but a wheelbarrow full of tools and the clothes on our backs. We SURVIVED.... and intend to keep on doing so... it's a Tradition."
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