Do you have a meaningful family story of America like Randy Timoner’s Daddy and his embrace of America and July 4th? If so, it may be time to remind your neighbors through conversations or in letters to the editor about our shared immigration history.

My father was born a Jew in Ukraine in 1903. That makes him Jewish, not Ukrainian. Around the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, when there was mass killing of Jews in Ukraine, he escaped in a garbage scow headed for France. From France he took a boat and ended up in N.Y. … Ellis Island. He claimed July 4th as his birthday as he was so grateful he made it to America!

It would hurt his heart to see what’s happening in his beloved USA.

Randy Timoner