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July 01, 2003
Eh, Canada!
Oh, hell! I had forgotten about Canada Day!
Let me give a personal thank you to Canada, the only country in the world that was willing to take my family in during the war. No, not a recent war; the War. World War II...
You see, during Hitler's rise to power, My Great Grand Dad saw the writing on the wall. Knowing that the worst was coming, My G-GD took what he could and headed back to his old estates in Russia. This was a bad move; the communists had won that little scuffle, were still in power, and not fond of the capitalists who had moved in. So they went shopping for a new home. America turned them down. England turned them down. Canada, though, Canada said yes...
Eventually my grandmother (who was alive and accounted for during these moves) illegally immigrated to the United States. I still have family in Canada, and will remain eternally grateful to Great Frozen North...
As for my Grandmother, the lesson is: Don't smoke. She lived under both Hitler and Stalin, but it was the Lung Cancer that got her...
Posted by Andrew at July 1, 2003 07:46 PM
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