"Marc:I presume it will be quite exciting and
I have been asked to kiss the ground on arrival."
That is what my grandfather did when he got through immigration at Ellis Island in 1903. He and my grandmother were forced out of Russia with the Czar's edit that expelled all Jews from "the Pale of Settlement" throughout Czarist Russia. A "visit" by the "friendly folks" undertaking the pogroms made their decision to come to America a bit easier. If you have ever seen the movie "Fiddler on the Roof", that is the story of my grandparents.
So, American beckons and shall welcome you.
I think what you are doing for Daniel is a grand thing. We are being told that any foster child we take in will most likely not be adoptable to us, because we are caregivers and not on the adoption list. We shall see.
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Caman, I think you should do two things in the next while. First, ensure you take a picture of you and your family leaving your home and one at the airport, then take the same pictures at your new home and the airport with the entire family. This linkage will help establish a pictorial form of roots. This will be important to you and your extended family in the future.
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Caman, I think you should do two things in the next while. First, ensure you take a picture of you and your family leaving your home and one at the airport, then take the same pictures at your new home and the airport with the entire family. This linkage will help establish a pictorial form of roots. This will be important to you and your extended family in the future.
A great idea, Rp. I would like a copy of the picture of Caman kissing the ground. Are you flying to JFK International in NYC? I grew up not far from there, but back then it was called Idlewild Airport.
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Caman, I think you should do two things in the next while. First, ensure you take a picture of you and your family leaving your home and one at the airport, then take the same pictures at your new home and the airport with the entire family. This linkage will help establish a pictorial form of roots. This will be important to you and your extended family in the future.
I too think this is a great idea, altho the leaving ad arriving might look the same!!
(I doubt it!) Except for you Caman, you will be smiling on both counts I think!!
Hope your arm is suffering well under the added strain... and that it is getting a bit more mobility... have to play those irish jigs with gusto.. and that takes a good elbow!!
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Good idea lads.
I'll definitely have the camera handy.
Leslie: I rarely smile.
Got to think about my bad boy image.
Good night, Caman. You, the "bad boy"??? No way. You have a heart of gold and a great voice to match this heart, so stay just the way you are right now. We can all say "We knew him when" as you accept your Grammy award. Excelsior, mon ami.
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I wish I hadn't looked.........I just didn't believe the caption, or I wouldn't have....girl cheerfully throws puppies (hardly a few days old from the looks of them) into a river to drown.......probably in croatia....
I feel so sick, I really want to puke and I even though I shut the video down as fast as possible when I realized it was TRUE, the image stays with me and I want to cry. I shouldn't be so shocked, I am not a child, I realize these people do exist in the world, but to see a girl of about 12-14, happily, smiling, toss a newborn puppy into a river really disturbs me. Tell me the vision will go away.
This is for Caman, as he sets his sights on going westward, towards the setting sun. He and I shall be brothers of the sun -- with me seeing the sun rise first in North America and he seeing it set last in North America. Paix, mon ami.
Caman, the Irish have been coming to America for hundreds of years, leaving their mark on their new homeland. May you do the same ........ in peace, with your music and love of family, than in war.
Patrick Kelly, of Kelly's Irish Brigade, was buried near where I grew up, in First Cavalry Cemetery in Woodside, New York.
Thus, to be Irish is to be part of what made America. Paix, mon ami.
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I wish I hadn't looked.........I just didn't believe the caption, or I wouldn't have....girl cheerfully throws puppies (hardly a few days old from the looks of them) into a river to drown.......probably in croatia....
I feel so sick, I really want to puke and I even though I shut the video down as fast as possible when I realized it was TRUE, the image stays with me and I want to cry. I shouldn't be so shocked, I am not a child, I realize these people do exist in the world, but to see a girl of about 12-14, happily, smiling, toss a newborn puppy into a river really disturbs me. Tell me the vision will go away.
Jeanne, where on earth did you see this????
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