The Immigrant Experience

Our people arrived in America from Germany in the 1850s.  Sounds like a long time ago.  The signs of being isolated as immigrants continues in my family. The wounds heal but there is scar tissue of the soul. The Elders remember best.

 I was born in the Mid West in Great Depression Era.  Germans were among those seen as The Problem. I recall the way we were treated and how we were made to feel unworthy. We made it through and now try to welcome others who want the American Way.

It has taken a long time to feel a part of the main stream American way. That is the story of the American way.  

I want America to be patient with all of us. The wider world needs us as a patient people.  America needs the wider world as a company of humans on the way toward a better community.  

Del