Why America

“But where are we going I asked?”

“We are going to America.”My father said.

“Why America?” I prodded.

“Because son.” he replied “we were born Americans, but in the wrong place.”

From Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg. Possibly an apocryphal story about refugees from the Hungarian revolution against the Soviets in 1956. “Something doesn’t have to be a fact to illustrate a truth.” Rabbi Kollin

The image is from a Postcrossing card I received from Kansas USA last week.


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