[DeTomaso] Immigrants - NPC

[Charles Engles]

Dear David,


              Well, at least you amounted to something in the end....!


                             Your fellow curmudgeon,  Chuck Engles




-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com] On Behalf
Of David
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 1:20 PM
To: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Immigrants - NPC

The last of my family that came to America was Grandpa Pete.  Somehow got to
Liverpool from Sweden and entered Wyoming  from Canada. His foreman took a
job at a gold mine in Colorado and wrote to Pete offering him a job. (skip
the local color) Pete met the young girl that brought the mail to the mine,
she coming up with the only female jack-packer. One day a fellow from the
phone company asked Pete if you could really  ski, "Ya, sure!" Pete worked
for the phone company for almost 50 years.

 

The point of the story here is that WE are all immigrants. Unless you can
document residence from before the Bering Land bridge, you came here to
live! The question should not be whether or not you are an immigrant, but
will you be a good citizen? Work, contribute, vote. Sadly, Grandpa Pete
decided if he was going to live here, he would learn the language and be a
good citizen. So, no Swede talkin' here beyond pogen . .  . . and I was
raised to be a good citizen.  Viet Nam x2? Worked most of my life and turned
out to be a grouchy old man.