I am trying to describe what I feel now.
Now that this man was elected President.
President of our country
Our new country, America.
This wonderful young country, but mature Democracy, the experiment.
America the magnet, hope for people around the world.
We came here for a new beginning.
My wife, our little daughter and myself.
We decided to leave the Soviet Union when we realized finally that there was no future for us there.
We Jews always felt like second-class, unwanted people. It was not our country.
We were young and determined to do better for ourselves and our children.
We came to America.
And also it took some time to adapt, but we were home, at last. Continue reading “Our Choices”